Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 29)

One good egg in a barrel of rotten apples.

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

Just to throw some evidence on the fire.

The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.

I wasn't living under my parents' house anymore.

I left the door wide open, and you didn't take the bait.

Money roots out all evil.

I’ll push some strings for you.

They counted the votes until the cows had literally gone to sleep.

These felled trees are the beavers’ handiwork!

I’m gonna dig in my feet on this one.

I'm sweating like a bullet.

They’ve taken the horns by the scruff of the neck.

English football player & analyst

.. drawing the eye… like a magnet

I would not trust him with a ten foot pole.

I don't want that monkey around my neck.

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

It could turn on a dime like a stallion.

A loose tongue spoils the broth.

I don't want to step on your thunder.

A duck on a hot tin roof.

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