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It’s all water under the hatchet.

Mixed metaphors

Great American: What speakers call a man when they can’t think of anything specifically complimentary to say.

Definitions

Goin’ around your ass to get to your elbow

Expressions

Heirloom: Some old thing nobody liked well enough to wear out.

Definitions Things

Ability is what will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

Success Work

I.O.U.: A type of paper wait.

Definitions

“Come up to my apartment,” Tom said flatly.

Tom Swifties

Dust: Mud with the juice squeezed out.

Definitions

Liberal: A man with his mind open at both ends.

Beliefs Definitions People

Don’t bite the hand that looks dirty.

Mixed metaphors

Nepotism: A form of favoritism – relatively speaking.

Definitions Family

He reads like a fish.

Mixed metaphors

“He’s a boring chap,” said Tom indulgently.

Tom Swifties

Everyone has the right to be stupid but you’re abusing the priviledge.

Insults Intelligence

You are not being diplomatic just because you put please in front of “Shut the hell up.”

Characteristics Situations

Print the bulletins and get the information decimated.

Malaprops

Make like a tree and head out.

Mixed metaphors

Up a tree without a paddle.

Mixed metaphors

Automation has opened up a whole new field of unemployment.

Situations Work

Our organization really frowns down on that.

Mixed metaphors

It is so hot… I saw a chicken lay a fried egg.

Exaggerations Heat Science/Weather