Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 31)

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

You can't pull the wool out from under my nose!

Microsoft™ is thoroughly dropping the ball on that front.

I can’t make these split-minute decisions.

What a dirty trap!

She knocked the socks off the ball.

Running around like children with their heads cut off

That was a dialog we started down.

If everything is good in the henhouse, you see don’t have to go out for eggs.

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

It's a walk in the cake.

Obviously for Scunthorpe it would be a nice scalp to put Wimbledon on their bottoms.

English soccer player & manager

The world is your lobster.

They’ve taken the horns by the scruff of the neck.

English football player & analyst

They’ve tasted the other side of the coin on so many occasions.

Irish football player & broadcaster

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)

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

English former football player & manager

We raised it to new depths.

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

You buttered your bread; now you'll have to sleep in it.

We need to get a vacuum cleaner and hose him down.

When you boil it down to its nuts and bolts