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I’m gonna dig in my feet on this one.

Mixed metaphors

She grabbed the bull by the horns, and ran with it.

Mixed metaphors

Don't bite the hand that lays the golden egg.

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“Parsley, sage, rosemary,” said Tom timelessly.

Tom Swifties

Freelance: To collect unemployment.

Definitions Work

You have to shoot where the fish are barking.

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Every silver lining has a cloud around it.

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Upgraded and Improved: Didn't work the second time.

Definitions Situations Things

Get the kinks rolling

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Ecstasy: Happiness with its clothes off.

Definitions Emotions Happiness Sex

I like a lot of partisan cheese on my pizza.

Food/Drink Malaprops

Imagination: What puts men in asylums unless they are crazy enough to put it down on paper or canvas.

Definitions

I can read him like the back of my book.

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Senility: The pleasantly rueful experience of forgetting what we’ve forgotten.

Age Definitions Intelligence Memory Old

Chastity: Perhaps the most peculiar of all sexual aberrations.

Definitions Sex

It sent goosebumps up my spine.

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David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar.

Malaprops

He’s still green behind the ears.

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Reform: To gain or lose weight.

Appearance Body Definitions

There's more that one way to skin the cat out of the bag.

Mixed metaphors

“I’ve got a new watch,” Tom said with abandon.

Tom Swifties