Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 26)

Ignorance is golden.

She knocked the socks off the ball.

You’re fighting upstream.

That was the last hump on the camel.

[a rock group’s] authenticity strikes a chord with fans.

If everything is good in the henhouse, you see don’t have to go out for eggs.

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

Taking the bull with both feet

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

He ran a cottage industry from his garden shed.

When sleeping dogs fly.

I'd walk a mile in a camel's shoes to pass through the eye of a needle.

Some people sail through life on a bed of roses like a knife slicing through butter.

We certainly don't want to rock the apple cart.

We'll rewind the calendar.

That's the pot calling the kettle's bluff.

No, I think that was when Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence; ya know, fourscore and seven years ago.

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

That's putting the chicken before the cart.

A salesman told viewers that a keyboard would teach your mind's eye to play by ear.

The intention is to get a jumpstart on it.

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

He's not the brightest cookie in the lamp.