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Title: Mixed metaphors
Post by: DILLIGAFF on 28 June 2012, 10:35:31 am: I am meeting a pal in London today who is unwittingly a master of the mixed metaphor.

A couple of recent quotes................. regarding a friend who was struggling............"He's really down on his uppers" !!

And talking about a waste of time................... "It was a bit of a wild herring" :rollin :lol

This got me to thinking, and with the vast resources of the FOC-U forum to hand, a new thread is born.

Let's see who can come up with the best examples.

I'll start you off with..................

People in glass houses gather no moss.

That's put a spanner in the ointment.

Beware the wrath of a big stick................................... :rolleyes
Title: Re: Mixed metaphors
Post by: bigralphie on 28 June 2012, 03:22:07 pm: As sober as a Aegis Bearing
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Post by: wfbroddy on 28 June 2012, 04:30:43 pm: A favourites of my mums..

"If we're not in when you get back................., we'll be out"

put a smile on my face everytime, as it was always said with absolute conviction :rollin
Title: Re: Mixed metaphors
Post by: DryRob on 28 June 2012, 04:35:49 pm: I'm sorry but I have the memory of a sieved fish
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Post by: caretaker on 28 June 2012, 04:56:41 pm: there was a german guy in my previous employ who would say of someone who was having a strop "he is throwing his pram around, ja!"
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Post by: GringoRojo on 28 June 2012, 11:51:00 pm: goes like shit off a duck's back
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Post by: pilgrim on 29 June 2012, 12:38:22 am: Pillock who works next to me:
' Its not a race, its a marathon'
Eh?
:)
Title: Re: Mixed metaphors
Post by: bigralphie on 29 June 2012, 01:34:13 am: Its not even that ,its a snickers
Title: Re: Mixed metaphors
Post by: Farjo on 29 June 2012, 10:55:25 am: "Is a bear Catholic?" - Kelly in "Married With Children"