Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 30)

This is all the fault of that Helen Curly Steinway.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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Sometimes they bite the farm.

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Close the barn door after you've led the horse to water.

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In the words of Harry S. Truman: If it's too hot in the kitchen, stay away from the cook.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Mixed metaphors TV/Movie Quotes

I guess I threw a cog in the wrench.

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This thing is snowballing like a house afire!

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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it a duck.

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It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.

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I should move to the other side of the building, so I can see the sunset come up every morning.

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They need to wake up and smell the music.

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Keep your ear to the grindstone.

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The guy just couldn’t cut the custard.

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They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat.

Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

It’s like pulling the teeth from a hen.

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I don't want to hold an open manhole over your head.

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We will burn that horse when we get there.

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It’s all water under the hatchet.

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I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.

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He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.

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Running around like a chicken with its legs cut off

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He’s going to look them over with a 10-foot pole.

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