MIXED METAPHORS

"as much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel"

--Gary Swing

A car comes up behind you, flashing his horn.: Aaron Colwick
a heart as big as gold: Kathy Scott
A leopard can't change his stripes.: Al Gore
A rolling stone is worth two in the bush.: David Beck
A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.: John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
An automatic process failed. I'm going to have to kick it off by hand.: The Russler
and, for the cherry on top, great sound & production that's crisp like a crunchy apple.: Alan_Caylow
[as if] it would somehow bring the public school system crumbling to its knees.: Mark Davis
as proud as pea soup: The Russler
beyond the question of a doubt: Doug_Yochum
biting the hand that rocks the cradle: Sherri Barber
¡Botó la casa por la ventana!
(It threw the house out the window!): Latin American saying used when someone throws a lavish party
Brilliant sunshine rained down on Fort Collins.: Rush Limbaugh
But one has to tidy up the loose ends.: Agatha Christie
Button your seat belts.: Rush Limbaugh
Can't you read the handwriting in the wind?: Frank Burns
Change is now baked into the fabric of EDS.: Dick Brown, cooking & sewing expert
changes that will ignite our engines of growth: Dick Brown, with some explosive ideas
David's come out of this one looking like a rose.: Dennis Malley
Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.: Ray Romano
Do you follow where I'm coming from?: Steve_Bishop
Does that play into the equation?: anonymous sportscaster
Don't burn your bridges till you come to them.: a general during WWII
Don't eat with your mouth full!: Russell McLaughlin's parents
Don't pull the axe too quickly.: Kevin
Don't take any wooden Indians.: The Russler
Drill that message home.: someone at EDS
Even in a sewer, the cream rises to the top.: Charles Emerson Winchester
Everything got real dark, like snow.: witness to the World Trade Center collapse
everywhere you turn around: a college senior
fewer and fewer in between: Jerry_L._Miller
Frankly, we don't know whether to wind the watch or to bark at the moon.: Dan Rather
from the bottom on down: Bill_Kidd
get the kinks rolling: George Harper
Go ahead. Spew it off your chest.: Jeff Feath
Have a nice day job.: The Russler
Haven't we beat that with a dead stick?: Todd Bruce
He came out of it smelling like a bandit.: Gene_McLemore
He can cry on a dime.: Kim
He clams up tighter than a drum.: Alex, in "Walker, Texas Ranger"
He kind of liked Alison, but Heather didn't really flip his whistle.: Celia_Steele
He reads like a fish.: a New Yorker who claims that people there use a lot of different verbs in "He/she ______s like a fish."
He took to it like a fish out of water.: Michael Ellis
He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.: Jeff_Orr
He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.: someone from England
He's cooking his goose deeper and deeper.: Kathy Scott
He's one brick short of the whole nine yards.: The Russler
He's really low dog on the totem pole.: John_Galvin
He's the meanest man on the face of the universe.: someone at EDS
. . . her last day as an eagle . . . flying off to greener pastures . . .: Steve P.
Here we are in the Holy Land of Israel -- a mecca for tourists.: someone from England
Hold the Farm!: The Russler
How would I feel if I were sitting in your shoes?: Stan_Womack
I could see you itching at the bit.: The Russler
I didn't have two minutes to rub together.: Scott_Zotigh
I don't want that monkey around my neck.: John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
I dozed in and off.: Jeff Feath
I feel the comparison paints Chicago in a bad light.: Theresa_Blackwell
I guess I threw a cog in the wrench.: Jeannette Scott
I guess the foot's on the other hand now!: Capt. Striker
I have been torn betwixt and between the devil and the deep blue sea.: Inga
I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons.: Rush Limbaugh
I left the door wide open, and you didn't take the bait.: Kyle Messerschmitt
I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.: Hubert_Jones
I want to be sure we don't build ourselves a bag of worms.: anonymous
I wanted to come out of the chute on the right foot.: John Mabry
I wish they'd hurry up and get their act in gear.: Jeff_Giesen
I will miss seeing him around the shoehorn.: council member in Lexington, Kentucky
I should move to the other side of the building, so I can see the sunset come up every morning.: Kyle Malone
I'd walk a mile in a camel's shoes to pass through the eye of a needle.: Gary Swing
I'll bet she has her clothes made by Orville, the tent maker.: John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
I'm bone empty.: Jeff Feath
I'm getting up on my feedbox here.: Rob_Tudor
I'm going to go ahead and mow and get it out of the over with.: The Russler
I'm no Monday morning shortstop.: radio advertiser
I'm not trying to poke holes at anybody.: Jerry_L._Miller
I'm so busy, I don't know whether I'm coming or not.: a top level business exec
I'm sweating like a stuck pig.: Sherri Barber
I'm tired of being a pawn in your lousy game of checkers!: Vinnie Faducci
I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.: Cher
I've got an ace up my nose.: Ken Zotigh
If he doesn't carry Florida, Slim will have left town.: Dan Rather
If they do that, they might as well take the open door policy and throw it right out the window!: Stan_Womack
If you don't wear your seat belt, you're just a missile waiting to happen.: Christine Wick
If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.: British foreign minister Ernet Bevin
Ignorance is golden.: Gary Swing
In about six months I'll be knocking on your shoulder.: Reggie_Walker
Is that going to throw a wrinkle?: David Beck
Is this a whole nother bucket of worms?: Keith_from_TGI
Isn't it nice to not have to look over our backs anymore?: anonymous, quoted by Sherri Barber
It ain't a pretty sight for the ears.: anonymous
It dawned across my head.: anonymous
It isn't rocket surgery!: Michael Kirk
It kind of defeats the whole point.: someone in a business meeting
It looks like the cows have come home to roost.: Frank Drebbin
It sent goosebumps up my spine.: Jim_Kuykendall
It sounds good on paper.: The Russler
It was time to get my act in gear.: Mark_Rathwell
It will be music to your wallet.: advertiser
It will have a special time on our plate.: Robert K. Oglesby
It'll be a cold day in January when that happens!: John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
It's a big nut to swallow.: Mike_Neff
It's a Hallmark moment!: Ann Jewell
It's as plain as the egg on your face.: The Russler
It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.: Gary Swing
It's gonna snowball through the whole fireworks.: Michael_Willey
It's like a wizard in sheep's clothing.: T.A._Miller
just to throw some evidence on the fire: business meaning attendee
Keep your nose up!: Manuel
kicking off the hockey season: sportscaster
kill two birds with one egg: Michelle_Perry
Let's clear up a loose end.: Rush Limbaugh
Let's make sure we're all talking off the same sheet of music.: Tom_Sweeterman
Let's not put all of our cookies in a basket.: Doug_MacDougal
life, liberty, and the pursuit of justice for all: Johnny Cochran
Listen! You smell something?: Ray Stantz
living from hand to mouth like the birds of the air: Sir Boyle Roche
long road to hoe: anonymous
Loose lips sink like a rock.: Gary Swing
Make like a tree and head out.: Jesse
Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.: Farber
Now I'm going to tell you something that'll really throw a kink in the wrench.: Parker_Allen
Now that the ball is in our court, let's go for the touchdown.: a lieutenant governor-elect of New Mexico, I forget which
No use beating him over the head with a dead horse.: Durward_Cline
not without a grain of sugar: anonymous
nothing out of the unusual: Kelly_Gryting
Nuke The Unborn Gay Whales: bumper sticker
one hundred degrees better: someone in a committee meeting
Our methodology isn't cast in stone.: Sam_Jellad
Our organization really frowns down on that.: Brian_Lawrence
Players' names should be entered in numeric order.: a league's instructions to coaches
Put that in your hat and smoke it.: Jesse
raining like a sieve: Jesse
right between the nose: Paul_Foley
right there on the tip of my brain: David R. Scott
She flew off the deep end.: anonymous
She has bigger dogs to fry.: Ken Zotigh
She may want to tackle that battle.: Craig_Bilodeau
Silence is bliss.: Terry_Castellanos
smoking like a sieve: Glen_Ayers
Someone's going to hang from the yardstick for this.: radio advertiser
Sometimes they bite the farm.: Ken Zotigh
Spare the rod; spoil the broth.: The Russler
Start at the 40,000-foot level, then drill down.: various IT managers
step up to the plate and pick up the gauntlet: Dave Musgrave
stirred the sea into a bowl of boiling cauldron: Robert Taylor
surfing the Infobahn [information superhighway]: Stan Kelly-Bootle
tackle that hurdle: Al_Poulin
Take the ball by the horns and run with it.: Earl
Take time to stop and smell the tunnel at the end of the rainbow.: The Russler
That doesn't mean it's written in gold.: Kathy Scott
That put a monkey in the wrench.: Debra Bentley (who did it on purpose before knowing about this book)
That really hacks me to a crisp.: Jeannette Scott
That was a dialog we started down.: Andrew_P._Smith
That will round out the triangle.: unnamed novelist
That will open up a whole new can of issues.: Frank Velez
That's the one that really swayed me over.: KSCS deejay
That's using your head for something besides a footstool.: Jeannette Scott
The ball stops in Dayton.: Steve_DeHaven
The beer flowed like wine.: someone on TV
The bottom line boils down to . . .: Farrell_Wilson
The deputy was willing to cut him a break.: Sgt._Sam_Pollock
The early bird gathers no moss.: Darin_Scheff
The folks in St. Louis burnt the midnight candle to resolve the issues.: someone in a memo
The House Of Seven Ushers: Kathy Scott
The intention is to get a jumpstart on it.: Walter_Morgan
The Maxeys' house deal fell through, so they're back to Ground Zero.: Kathy Scott
The rain is coming down like gangbusters!: David Beck
The rain was coming down in droves!: someone who prefers it to rain cats and dogs, not cattle
The ship of state has a difficult road ahead.: unnamed politician
The squeaky wheel wins.: Rob_Tudor
There are things that will really sink home with you.: Rob_Tudor
There's a silver lining in all that red ink.: NBC5 news anchor Mike Snyder
These two guys are cut out of the same mold.: anonymous
They counted the votes until the cows had literally gone to sleep.: Dan Rather
They gave him a raw shake.: John_Galvin
They need to wake up and smell the music.: John_Galvin
They paired off, one by one.: John Scott
They try to balance a fine line.: John_Casey
They'll never buy the cow if they can get the eggs for free.: anonymous
They're a legend before their time.: radio advertiser
Things are different when you have fifteen people on your plate.: Sam Mihdawi
This is a race where you can turn a corner, and then there'll be another team right there breathing down your throat.: Wil on "The Amazing Race"
This is just a nightmare waiting to happen.: Kathy Scott
This isn't set in stone.: lots of people
This snowball is coming down the mountain with a full head of steam.: Dale_Dubois
to get the buy-off of the business partner: a techie wanting buy-in and sign-off simultaneously
to the max degree: Rush Limbaugh
up a tree without a paddle: a Walt Disney character, I forget which
We all act as one heartbeat.: Yugo foreign minister Nebojsa
We can still hang our heads high.: member of U.S. men's 4x100 Olympic team
We drove a stake in the stand.: someone in my office
We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.: Lancaster,_Texas Mayor_Margie_Waldrop
We need to get a vaccuum cleaner and hose him down.: David Beck
We need to have photographic ears.: Ken_Blanchard
We need to look at it before the other eyes set foot on it.: Mike_Wajda
We need to sit down and walk through some things.: Ken Zotigh
We raised it to new depths.: anonymous Toastmaster
We want to brand the Renascence name to the eyeballs in the chairs.: a salesman
We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.: anonymous
We'll rewind the calendar.: anonymous deejay
We're cooking on all four cylinders.: Robert Oglesby
We're going to get locked into a corner.: Tom_Hogan
We're still getting our feet wet on getting rolling here.: Jim_Ballestro
What a dirty trap!: Jonathan_Polk
when we cross that path: anonymous
when you boil it down to its nuts and bolts: Ken Zotigh
While we are ingesting the author's valuable insights, we may also be swallowing his blind spots.: Robert K. Oglesby
Why don't you wear that turtle-hair sweater or that herring-tooth jacket?: Schell Browning
windy as a hornet: Jesse
without fear of hesitation: John Popper
You are wise behind your ears.: The Russler
You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!: Jiminy Cricket
You can dish it out, but you can't take it with you.: The Russler
You can take that to the bank and smoke it.: Stephen J. Cannell
You could take that guy with a grain a salt.: Cynthia_Zotigh
You have to dance to a different drum.: Laura Schlessinger
You hit the nail on the dot.: Cynthia_Vega
You must have ears like an eagle.: someone in "The Fugitive"
You need more sugar to get your brain circulating.: Dave Beck
You were at your wit's nerve.: Mike_Shearer
You're fighting upstream.: John_Heft
You're not pointing blame?: Mike_Shearer
Your car plays a link in your normal daily routine.: radio advertiser

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