Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 9)

Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

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That’s a kettle of fish of a different color.

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I should move to the other side of the building, so I can see the sunset come up every morning.

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I don’t think we should jump at straws here.

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We need to have photographic ears.

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We're robbing Peter to pay the piper.

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Makes the hair stand up on the edge of my seat

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You need more sugar to get your brain circulating.

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It's six, or one and a half dozen of the other.

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We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.

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I was so excited my heart about fell out of my stomach!

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This is no time to pull the rug out in the middle of the stream.

(1921 – 1991) U.S. Representative (Massachusetts)
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I'm bone empty.

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Don't look a gift horse in the eye.

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If they do that, they might as well take the open door policy and throw it right out the window!

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I hate to put you through all this rigor mortis.

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You continue to cloudy the water.

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Kill two cats with one bag.

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We're still getting our feet wet on getting rolling here.

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They're a legend before their time.

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The deal fell through, so they're back to ground zero.

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