Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 6)

It's time to swallow the bullet.

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I dozed in and off.

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He’s a man without an island.

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People will blow smoke and mirrors at you.

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

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A leopard can't change his stripes.

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That will open up a whole new can of issues.

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It's like pulling hen's teeth.

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You need more sugar to get your brain circulating.

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That's the whole kettle of fish in a nutshell.

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I don’t know whether to wind the watch or to bark at the moon.

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I'm hungry enough to eat cats and dogs.

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This snowball is coming down the mountain with a full head of steam.

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Butcher goes forward as Ipswich throw their last trump card into the fire.

British commentator
Colemanballs Mixed metaphors

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

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Money roots out all evil.

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Take time to stop and smell the tunnel at the end of the rainbow.

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Surfing the Infobahn [information superhighway]

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The bad penny ain’t pickin’ up no more rollin’ moss.

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

They're in the trenches; they're on the horse and they're riding it.

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He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.

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