Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 14)

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

Irish football player & broadcaster
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

You've got to take the bull between your teeth.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Misspokements Mixed metaphors

He’s a man without an island.

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Absence makes a long story short.

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It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake.

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I will miss seeing him around the shoehorn.

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As much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel.

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Now that the ball is in our court, let's go for the touchdown.

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They counted the votes until the cows had literally gone to sleep.

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It sounds good on paper.

Ideas Intelligence Mixed metaphors

Let him who is without sin cast the first vote.

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Don’t cast swine before bears.

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Not without a grain of sugar

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He'll take your head off at the blink of a hat.

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You don't have to beat it with a dead horse.

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From now on I'm watching your every move with a fine-toothed comb.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist
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If England had scored in the first half, I think the young legs would have found younger hearts inside them.

English football player & manager
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

Let's make sure we're all talking off the same sheet of music.

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I don't want that monkey around my neck.

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I could hear the handwriting on the wall.

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

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