Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 28)

Liverpool have come out with all guns flying.

English football player

Don't put all your chickens in one basket.

I was the mother hen to all these little ducks.

Step up to the plate and pick up the gauntlet.

Like the old adverb you can lead a gift horse to the water but ya can't look in his mouth.

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

We have to get all our ducks on the same page.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked.

British sports commentator

You've opened this can of worms, now lie in it.

Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot.

England football player

Up a tree without a paddle

Ignorance is golden.

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

They need to wake up and smell the music.

When you put your best foot forward, it rubs off on someone.

There wasn’t a dry tear in the place.

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

It sounds good on paper.

If you try to eat this elephant all in one bite, you’re going to have a hell of an indigestion.

We all act as one heartbeat.

Don't burn your bridges till you come to them.

Don’t eat with your mouth full!