mixed metaphor

That was a mixed metaphor if I ever heard one."

These are the mixed metaphors he uses to describe the man.

He was keen on mixed metaphors that got under your skin.

Occasionally we get two for the price of one and a mixed metaphor in the bargain.

And, ladies, I'm going to have to mention the mixed metaphor in the title.

Briefly, a part of him wondered if she noticed the mixed metaphor.

"Americans We" suggests an exercise in mixed metaphors about style and substance.

It was a mixed metaphor of sorts, but the point was clear.

"That sounds vaguely like a mixed metaphor, but I catch your meaning.

Full of unthinking cliches and mixed metaphors that mean nothing.

I said that whatever the script said, the mixed metaphor was unfortunate.

Hopefully that'll take some of the stress off your shoulders, which is a mixed metaphor but you know what I mean."

You smile in admiration, as at something rare, like a triple play; it's a double mixed metaphor.

Equally important, he emphasizes through the effective use of a mixed metaphor that "the worst broken windows are people."

Listening to it, one repeatedly reaches for a mixed metaphor as steering wheel.

"I think that's a mixed metaphor, but I get the picture.

He thought of the joy Wexford would have in that gloriously mixed metaphor.

His most memorable elocution in the Assembly emphasized mixed metaphors.

So they dissected them all with a fine-tooth comb getting mixed metaphors.

"I have rarely heard such a mixed metaphor, but I get the drift.

Mixed metaphors notwithstanding, the result was a triumph.

There are mixed metaphors (the "bull of a man" whose frame was "going to seed").

At the same time look for the mixed metaphor, which occurs far too often and adds nothing (except humour) to the sentence.

On which very mixed metaphor I stiffened my weak knees and got up from my chair.

If it has anything to do with pushing the envelope of glass, pardon the mixed metaphor, I'll be a bell jar.