Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 10)

That snake in the grass is barking up the wrong tree.

A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.

She grabbed the bull by the horns, and ran with it.

A stitch in time saves a poke in the eye with a wet fish.

Wood fires help fuel climate change.

You can dish it out, but you can't take it with you.

I think we got on like a house gathering no moss.

Kicking off the hockey season

It's on the tip of my frontal lobotomy.

You painted us into a corner, then you threw away the key.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

They’ve tasted the other side of the coin on so many occasions.

Irish football player & broadcaster

He’s a man without an island.

A journey of a thousand miles keeps the doctor away.

The British are often thought of as pioneers in the field of mountain climbing.

I'm sweating like a stuck pig.

It's like pushing a rock upstream.

Money roots out all evil.

The guy just couldn’t cut the custard.

The early worm is being picked first.

As the smoke clears at the devastated detention centre, an investigation reveals how officials ignored the warnings that they were sitting on a powder keg.

No skin off my teeth.