Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 30)

It's like pushing a rock upstream.

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The light at the end of the tunnel is only muzzle flash.

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He's the meanest man on the face of the universe.

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He’s not the sharpest marble in the drawer.

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We’ll cross that bear when we get to it.

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They're a legend before their time.

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Sayin’ grace – it’s just thankin’ Mother Nature, whose first name just happens to be Grace.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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There's a pot of gold at the end of the tunnel.

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He is not the sharpest cookie in the jar.

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Long road to hoe.

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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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If they do that, they might as well take the open door policy and throw it right out the window!

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Wood fires help fuel climate change.

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Biting the hand that rocks the cradle

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They try to balance a fine line.

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

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Roy Keane didn’t go through the book with a fine toothbrush.

English football player & analyst
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

Hell hath no fury like a wet cat.

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Clearly we’ve opened a Pandora’s box of worms here.

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Throw the spaghetti onto the ceiling to see what sticks.

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These two guys are cut out of the same mold.

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