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Mixed Metaphors
Some mixed, some mangled. Also known as a “malaphors”
Examples
- Burning the midnight oil from both ends.
- Grab the bull by the horns and run with it!
- Hit the bull’s-eye and the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards
- Marching to the beat of a dead horse
- My hands are twisted
- Slam dunk out of the park
- This is awfully weak tea to hang your hat on.
- Throwing the baby with the bathwater at us
- Up a tree without a paddle
- We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
- We’ll burn that bridge when we cross it