Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 29)

If England had scored in the first half, I think the young legs would have found younger hearts inside them.

English football player & manager
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Silence is bliss.

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Casual sex

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

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The dice are stacked against them.

Irish football player & manager
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People tell me one thing one day and out the other.

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It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.

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He shot out of here like a bat out of a belfry.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian
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I'm sweating like a stuck pig.

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She grabbed the bull by the horns, and ran with it.

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Raining like a sieve

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The world is your lobster.

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We are beating a dead drum.

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As the smoke clears at the devastated detention centre, an investigation reveals how officials ignored the warnings that they were sitting on a powder keg.

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They burnt the midnight candle to resolve the issues.

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There's a silver lining in all that red ink.

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If you can't cut the cheese you're out of here!

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I guess the foot’s on the other hand now!

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The head of the body overseeing youth justice…

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Nothing out of the unusual

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I'm not trying to poke holes at anybody.

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