mix one's metaphors

Mrs. Bark could tell him to stop mixing metaphors, to say nothing of the predictable word plays.

Winston could mix metaphors with the best of 'em, Ryan saw.

They were nothing more, he said, mixing metaphors, than "generalized cotton candy without a bottom line."

To mix labels, if not metaphors, the whole piece has an air of post-modern surrealism.

"His talent will be mixing metaphors, when he learns to speak."

We may never know the real reasons why Cameron has (to mix metaphors) played his cards and made his bet.

A prop (the ladder) is used to shut the door - or to mix metaphors, to tie things up.

At the risk of mixing metaphors, it is nowhere even near the table now, and the world knows it.

I'm probably mixing metaphors there, but you get the gist.

Maybe in Israel I'd stop mixing metaphors and remembering poems.