Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 14)

As much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel.

The menu was frozen in the amber of 1973.

I look forward to the day when we can just talk about the ethics of angling without this red herring of whether they can feel pain.

We'll mend that fence when we get to it.

I'm a nervous basket.

Let’s start at square zero.

That will round out the triangle.

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

Irish football player & broadcaster

Keep your nose up!

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

You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.

I feel like a bridegroom waiting at the altar for a blind date.

They are crumbling at the seams.

What you need is somebody new… there's more than one fish in the woodpile.

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

I'm so busy, I don't know whether I'm coming or not.

When sleeping dogs fly.

Spare the rod, spoil the broth.

It’s all water under the hatchet.

Between closed walls

He's cooking his goose deeper and deeper.

Like stealing cake from a baby