Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 7)

Up the creek in a boat with a hole.

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

Shivers of joy running up and down my throat

I'm sweating like a stuck pig.

Signori has all the tricks up his book.

England football player

If you can't cut the cheese you're out of here!

You're sailing close to thin ice.

This thing is snowballing like a house afire!

Brilliant sunshine rained down on the city.

You have to take the bad with the worse.

He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.

Too long they’ve been gettin’ the short end of the totem pole.

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

The squeaky wheel wins.

That's putting the chicken before the cart.

I smell a rat… but I'll nip him in the bud.

Right, and the check is in my mouth.

(1971 – ) American actress

Take the ball by the horns and run with it.

They counted the votes until the cows had literally gone to sleep.

That'll stick out like a red herring.

Don't look a gift horse in the eye.

Signori has all the tricks up his book.

England football player

Casual sex