Mixed Metaphors
2015-08-11 - humor, presentation
Here I’m collecting some mixed metaphors that I thought were funny. Hopefully for use in a presentation about comedy I am doing
- I wouldn’t eat that with a ten foot pole
- She has a heart as big as gold
- He’s likes a duck out of water
- I’m going to sleep like a baby’s bottom
- I have to pee like a gift horse: in the mouth
- Six of one man’s garbage is a half dozen of the others
- He’s a wolf in cheap clothing
- Wake up and smell the coffee on the wall
- It’s like shooting fish in a barrel full of monkeys.
- He’s got a lot of shoes to fill
- Don’t throw stones in a glass bottom boat.
- An apple a day doesn’t fall far from the tree.
- Looks like the cows have come home to roost.
- You can lead a cat to a bag but you can’t make him drink.
- Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, give a man a whale, he’ll eat for a month, maybe more.
- We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it
- He was watching me like I was a hawk.
- I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.
- Button your seat belts
- It ain’t rocket surgery