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Mixed Metaphors

Some mixed, some mangled. Also known as a “malaphors”

Examples

  • Bit the farm (and the converse) Bought the dust
  • Burning the midnight oil from both ends.
  • Grab the bull by the horns and run with it!
  • He’s going to be so happy he’ll be like a canary in a coal mine!
  • Hit the bull’s-eye and the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards
  • I don’t want to sound like a broken drum here
  • I know these are swing-for-the-moon opportunities…
  • I’m not trying to beat a dead horse to death
  • It’s a huge task, but we’re trying to get our arms and legs around it
  • It’s no skin on our back
  • Marching to the beat of a dead horse
  • My hands are twisted
  • Read between the tea leaves
  • Slam dunk out of the park
  • They have more foot on the ground
  • This is awfully weak tea to hang your hat on.
  • Throwing the baby with the bathwater at us
  • Too many cooks in the soup
  • Up a tree without a paddle
  • We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
  • We need to keep running in our own swim lanes
  • We need to make sure they have some skin in the teeth
  • We need to talk about the elephant in the closet
  • We’ll burn that bridge when we cross it
  • We’re dancing on thin ice