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It's time to step up to the plate and cut the mustard.

Mixed metaphors

The early worm is being picked first.

Mixed metaphors

Abasement: A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth and power.

Definitions

He could sell socks to a rooster.

Communication Expressions

Inhibition: Being tied up in nots.

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Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Death Definitions

Fore: A golf bawl.

Definitions Golf Sports

Absent: The notation generally following your name in a class record.

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She really stuck her neck out on a limb.

Mixed metaphors

Ad Hoc: Pawn shop advertisement.

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“I see,” said Tom icily.

Tom Swifties

Vasectomy: Spoil the rod… spare the child.

Definitions

“I like ragged margins,” said Tom without justification.

Tom Swifties

The notion that space was empty, there was no stuff there, was something the mind finds it very difficult to get its head round, she said.

Mixed metaphors

He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.

Mixed metaphors

Politician: A fellow who borrows your pot in which to cook your goose.

Definitions Government Politicians

Learned Fool: One who has read everything, and simply remembered it.

Definitions Intelligence

Middle Age: That period in life when your idea of getting ahead is staying even.

Age Definitions

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

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Beyond the question of a doubt

Mixed metaphors

He was shaking like a 50¢ ladder.

Expressions