Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 23)

I'm tired of walking on kid gloves.

He's like a cat out of water

Sleeping dogs bark the loudest.

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

You're like a dog barking down the wrong well.

I'm going to have to kick it off by hand.

Unless somebody can pull a miracle out of the fire, they are cruising into the semi-final.

When sleeping dogs fly.

I'm no Monday morning shortstop.

You must have ears like an eagle.

We're cooking on all four cylinders.

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

A bird in the hand is mightier than the sword.

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

Grasping at the straw that broke the camel's back

I didn't have two minutes to rub together.

In the words of Harry S. Truman: If it's too hot in the kitchen, stay away from the cook.

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

Absence makes a long story short.

We’ll cross that bear when we get to it.

That’s a kettle of fish of a different color.

The early worm is being picked first.

He was bothered mentally mainly by the physical plague.