Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 7)

She was drop down gorgeous.

Hell hath no fury like a wet cat.

Living from hand to mouth like the birds of the air

There's light at the end of this rainbow.

Let's not put all of our cookies in a basket.

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

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

Make like a tree and head out.

I've been getting the corpse ahead of the hearse most of my life.

She flew off the deep end.

It’s like pulling the teeth from a hen.

Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.

I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.

Did you hear what they feel?

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)

Till the cows freeze over.

We need to look at it before the other eyes set foot on it.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us.

I'm a nervous basket.

People tell me one thing one day and out the other.

I’m so hungry I could beat a dead horse.

The sacred cows have come home to roost with a vengeance.