Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 8)

Take the ball by the horns and run with it.

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We're robbing Peter to pay the piper.

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Absence makes a long story short.

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The fan is gonna hit the roof.

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Make like a tree and head out.

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My purses were selling like wild cakes.

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Don't count your chickens until you see the whites of their eyes.

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You’re fighting upstream.

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There are things that will really sink home with you.

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We are just scratching the tip of the iceberg.

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A stitch in time saves a poke in the eye with a wet fish.

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The head of the body overseeing youth justice…

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.. drawing the eye… like a magnet

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I think the big guns will come to the boil.

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Let’s start at square zero.

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They try to balance a fine line.

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Get in the boat and swim or get out.

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The light at the end of the tunnel is only muzzle flash.

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A carpenter was the low rung on a totem pole.

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When life throws you curve balls, make lemonade.

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Samson, he takes the jawbone out of the grass and he kills the whole army of the Philippines.

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