Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 11)

When sleeping dogs fly.

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People tell me one thing one day and out the other.

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If worse comes to shove

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Look what the cat dragged out of the bag.

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You buttered your bread; now you'll have to sleep in it.

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We should get our foot in the door and get the ball rolling.

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I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host
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We're going to get locked into a corner.

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Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.

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Surely we'll dig up the past, in order to bury the hatchet.

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It's like locking the barn door after the nuts have bolted.

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That was the last hump on the camel.

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The ship of state has a difficult road ahead.

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It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.

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We’ll do this individually as a group.

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As long as that dog hunts, we’ll ride him,

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You hit the nail on the dot.

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It sent goosebumps up my spine.

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Hell hath no fury like a wet cat.

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I guess the foot’s on the other hand now!

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You might think the Channel Islands are a backwater.

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