Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 4)

Every silver lining has a cloud around it.

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Don’t eat with your mouth full!

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A salesman told viewers that a keyboard would teach your mind's eye to play by ear.

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This is the problem we are wringing our hair over.

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You’ve really put your finger on the nail there.

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It used to be sheep [waking me in the morning] and that's bad enough, but cows are a whole different kettle of fish.

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I'm not trying to poke holes at anybody.

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Liverpool have come out with all guns flying.

English football player
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That's a hard bubble to crack.

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He clams up tighter than a drum.

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They cut into a water main, and it was gushing like a mountain.

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There wasn’t a dry tear in the place.

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This is no time to pull the rug out in the middle of the stream.

(1921 – 1991) U.S. Representative (Massachusetts)
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The lining's always more silver on the other side of the cloud.

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That's the pot calling the kettle's bluff.

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It’s all water under the hatchet.

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I could see you itching at the bit.

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Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.

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… if the child was misbehaving, that's one thing, but if her parents were encouraging her, that's a whole new ballpark…

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

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A loose tongue spoils the broth.

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