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Mixed Metaphors

#1 User is offline   Lethal Biddle 

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 09:34 AM

We were discussing mixed metaphors in the office yesterday & here are a few of our favourites:

People in glass houses sink ships.

I wouldn't eat that with a 10ft barge pole.

Step up to the plate & put your cards on the table.

I'm watching you with a fine toothed comb.

Burning the midnight oil from both ends.

People are dropping like hotcakes.

Anyone have any other good ones?
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#2 User is offline   Joinee Varwell 

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 09:40 AM

Those are great!

One of my favourites is:
Is the bear a Catholic? or Do popes shit in the woods?
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Posted 12 January 2012 - 10:05 AM

A bird in the hand saves the broth
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Posted 13 January 2012 - 06:24 PM

I've always enjoyed Dundrearyisms; I had always thought of them as "C.J.-ism"s (from the 'Reginald Perrin' series) until I stumbled upon the actual name when I was looking up something about "Our American Cousin" (killer play, incidentally). My favorite example is
"That's a whole different kettle of fish out of water".
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Posted 13 January 2012 - 07:52 PM

Don't shit on your hot tin roof.

An apple a day is worth two in the bush.
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Posted 13 January 2012 - 11:56 PM

you can lead a horse to water but you cant teach grandmother to suck eggs.

Flogging a dead elephant in the room.
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#7 User is offline   Mr Phil 

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 09:03 AM

A rose by any other name would gather no moss.
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 10:06 AM

View Postjoinee_doug, on 13 January 2012 - 06:24 PM, said:

I've always enjoyed Dundrearyisms; I had always thought of them as "C.J.-ism"s (from the 'Reginald Perrin' series) until I stumbled upon the actual name when I was looking up something about "Our American Cousin" (killer play, incidentally). My favorite example is
"That's a whole different kettle of fish out of water".

Yes I particularly like saying "that's a whole different kettle of worms" or "that's really let the fish out of the bag" and suchlike.
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 10:48 PM

View PostJoinee Varwell, on 12 January 2012 - 09:40 AM, said:

Those are great!

One of my favourites is:
Is the bear a Catholic? or Do popes shit in the woods?

Bad guy: "Does a bear shop in the woods?"
Mountie: (very seriously) "In my experience, bears don't shop."

I know that doesn't really quite fit into this thread. But tough. It's out there now. Because that line always makes me smile.
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Posted 15 January 2012 - 10:46 AM

Burning the midnight oil at both ends.
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Posted 15 January 2012 - 02:40 PM

View PostPoohbah (Gsq), on 14 January 2012 - 10:48 PM, said:

Bad guy: "Does a bear shop in the woods?"
Mountie: (very seriously) "In my experience, bears don't shop."

I know that doesn't really quite fit into this thread. But tough. It's out there now. Because that line always makes me smile.

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 06:45 PM

Naturally. s3 ep2. ;-)
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 10:46 PM

View PostPoohbah (Gsq), on 15 January 2012 - 06:45 PM, said:

Naturally. s3 ep2. ;-)


Lou! I forgot to tell you.... David of the Joneseseses went as Benton Fraser to fancy dress party on new year's eve, the theme of which was "Your personal hero". Thought you might like that, although it's not CKR...Sorry.

I am being dastardly at the moment, with all this off-topic malarkey! Wow... I didn't know I could type in such such a camp fashion.

Anyway.

All this reminds me of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace!!

"That's about the size of it in a nutshell"


"Do you understand?"
"As Crystal."

:D Oh what fun!

What about:

The Iceberg that broke the camel's back.
Hernaic (Hur-nay-ick) [adj]: Relating to any object, event or experience that is sufficiently interesting, entertaining, amusing and/or extreme to the point of induction of a hernia (fig).
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:23 PM

Um ... these are proverbs, not metaphors - just saying. They are delightfully mixed, though :) Mum White.
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Posted 18 January 2012 - 10:54 AM

View PostJoinee Mum White, on 17 January 2012 - 11:23 PM, said:

Um ... these are proverbs, not metaphors - just saying. They are delightfully mixed, though :) Mum White.

Most of them are both, but not all of them are proverbs. Lacking the all important advice or warning element. More specifically than metaphors though, they are all catachreses, if we're defining them perfectly. Some of them are even solecist proverbial catachreses. But a lot more people know what a metaphor is.
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Posted 18 January 2012 - 07:16 PM

View PostHernaic Tom, on 17 January 2012 - 10:46 PM, said:

Lou! I forgot to tell you.... David of the Joneseseses went as Benton Fraser to fancy dress party on new year's eve, the theme of which was "Your personal hero". Thought you might like that, although it's not CKR...Sorry.


:lol: Yay Davey! I will have to FB him my approval.
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