Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 31)

We will burn that horse when we get there.

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Now you have hit it on the head with the nail.

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There wasn’t a dry tear in the place.

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People were streaming out of town to escape the floods.

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I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.

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Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness.

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

You can beat a dead horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

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If you let the cat out of the bag, how can you let sleeping dogs lie?

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You hit the nail on the dot.

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It's all Greek to a blind horse.

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You’re fighting upstream.

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They’ve come out with all cylinders flying.

British football player & manager
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

It sent goosebumps up my spine.

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He’s not the sharpest marble in the drawer.

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

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Rattle some feathers.

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

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You need more sugar to get your brain circulating.

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The writing is on the wall for bookshops.

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The whole can of wax

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…a seething volcano, nine tenths submerged in the melting pot which one day will explode beneath our feet like a boomerang to engulf us all in a whirlwind of dragon's teeth. It will be too late to close the stable-door.

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