Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 7)

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

Did you hear what they feel?

We’ll cross that bear when we get to it.

We better not, ya know, kill our chickens before they cross the road.

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

We are treading on thin water.

That will round out the triangle.

He's the meanest man on the face of the universe.

Beware my friend… you are skating on hot water.

Kill two cats with one bag.

I'm tired of walking on kid gloves.

He smokes like a fish.

No skin off my teeth.

People will blow smoke and mirrors at you.

I'd walk a mile in a camel's shoes to pass through the eye of a needle.

It was time to get my act in gear.

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

(1921 – 1991) U.S. Representative (Massachusetts)

It's time to step up to the plate and cut the mustard.

Let’s start at square zero.

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

I make it my goal to shake every hand that walks in the door.

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