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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