Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 18)

The whole can of wax

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Button your seat belts.

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We are treading on thin water.

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

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I don’t think we should jump at straws here.

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We'll be there until the fat lady freezes over.

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Hit the wall running…

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If you don't wear your seat belt, you're just a missile waiting to happen.

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…a seething volcano, nine tenths submerged in the melting pot which one day will explode beneath our feet like a boomerang to engulf us all in a whirlwind of dragon's teeth. It will be too late to close the stable-door.

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Don't put all your chickens in one basket.

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This is just a nightmare waiting to happen.

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Do you follow where I'm coming from?

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He was just a splash in the pan.

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Surfing the Infobahn [information superhighway]

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Make like a tree and head out.

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I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.

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

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We’ll do this individually as a group.

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You continue to cloudy the water.

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Seeing a buzzard catch a rare phalarope is in bird-watching terms, like killing two birds with one stone.

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Beyond the question of a doubt

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