Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 3)

A journey of a thousand miles keeps the doctor away.

It's a walk in the cake.

One of the things you have to say for him: he doesn't mince his punches.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist

That was the last hump on the camel.

You got easy regress to safety.

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

You've gotta stick your neck out on a limb sometimes.

I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us.

Get two birds stoned at once.

Once you open a can of worms, they always come home to roost.

Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.

Let's call the kettle what it is!

Wood fires help fuel climate change.

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

You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.

Liverpool have come out with all guns flying.

English football player

I'm sweating like a bullet.

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)

Due process of elimination

I think the big guns will come to the boil.

English football player & manager

Like the Good Book says, let him who is without sin… be the rollin’ stone.

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