Subject: Mixed metaphors (Page 9)

We don't need to skirt around the bush.

I'm bone empty.

I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons.

If he were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.

The British are often thought of as pioneers in the field of mountain climbing.

It's on the tip of my frontal lobotomy.

This will help us to know that we are covering all of the gamuts.

A rolling stone is worth two in the bush.

He is not the sharpest cookie in the jar.

You got easy regress to safety.

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

Do you follow where I'm coming from?

They paired off, one by one.

Take a flying hike.

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

Adam wasn’t always the brightest tool.

What you need is somebody new… there's more than one fish in the woodpile.

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

Like a chicken with its hat off.

You can’t have your hill and die on it too.

We're going to get locked into a corner.

The shit’s gonna hit the stick.

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