Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 23)

You must have ears like an eagle.

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If you spill the beans, then you'll open a can of worms.

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It's six, or one and a half dozen of the other.

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You’ve really put your finger on the nail there.

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What a dirty trap!

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You’ve buttered your bread, now lie in it.

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

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You got easy regress to safety.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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It was time to get my act in gear.

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Where do you draw the line? … Everything has to have been drawn originally.

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Just to throw some evidence on the fire.

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Long road to hoe.

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We want to brand the Renaissance name to the eyeballs in the chairs.

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Better not open that Panacea's box.

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Let’s start at square zero.

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You can't pull the wool out from under my nose!

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Don't mind me, I'm just a mouse on the wall.

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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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I've been up and down like a light switch.

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They don't know yet whether that played a factor in the accident.

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We raised it to new depths.

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