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Right there on the tip of my brain

Mixed metaphors

“Can I become a chorister?” Tom inquired.

Tom Swifties

We certainly don't want to rock the apple cart.

Mixed metaphors

“Fish seem to like me,” Tom said with baited breath.

Tom Swifties

Most anybody can be a cowboy, but it takes a damn genius to make money at it.

Money Occupations Work

A sandwich is an attempt to make both ends meat.

Food/Drink

Black Eye: A stamp of disapproval.

Definitions

Spouse: Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.

Definitions Marriage

I want to see you go to town like a house of fire.

Mixed metaphors

Glutton: A person who takes the piece of French pastry you wanted.

Definitions Eating Food/Drink People

Don't mind me, I'm just a mouse on the wall.

Mixed metaphors

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Characteristics People

Diplomat: A person who thinks twice before saying nothing.

Definitions

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

Definitions Situations Things

Fad: Something that goes in one era and out the other.

Definitions

Shakespeare: A man whose writings are so excellent it’s believed someone else must have written them.

Definitions

Acorn: An oak in a nutshell.

Definitions

Troops: Expendable bodies sent by the government to stop bullets during obscure foreign uprisings.

Definitions Military

Eunuch: One who is cut off from temptation.

Body Definitions

Income Tax: The entry fee for the rat race.

Definitions Government Taxes

Umbrella: A movable roof.

Definitions Things