Mixed Metaphors

1.	Drawing the eye . . . like a magnet.
2.	Her last day as an eagle . . . flying off to greener pastures . . .
3.	If the child was shoplifting, that's one thing, but if her parents were teaching her to steal, that's a whole new ballpark. . . .
4.	Putting aside every spare nickel. You know, building up a little goose egg.
5.	Whilst I polish these puppies up . . .
6.	Who were going to fight you hook, line, and sinker.
7.	[as if] it would somehow bring the public school system crumbling to its knees.
8.	99 times out of ten, that's what you'll get.
9.	A bird in the hand is worth all the tea in China.
10.	A car comes up behind you, flashing his horn.
11.	A carpenter was the low rung on a totem pole.
12.	A heart as big as gold
13.	A leopard can't change his stripes.
14.	A loose tongue spoils the broth.
15.	A rolling stone gathers no bird in the hand.
16.	A rolling stone is worth two in the bush.
17.	A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.
18.	A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
19.	Adam wasn't always the brightest tool.
20.	All the tea in China isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
21.	An automatic process failed. I'm going to have to kick it off by hand.
22.	And, for the cherry on top, great sound & production that's crisp like a crunchy apple.
23.	As much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel
24.	as proud as pea soup
25.	As we consider the road that unfolds before us . . .
26.	Beauty is only skin.
27.	Beware my friend...you are skating on hot water.
28.	Beyond the question of a doubt
29.	Biting the hand that rocks the cradle
30.	Brilliant sunshine rained down on Fort Collins.
31.	But one has to tidy up the loose ends.
32.	Button your seat belts.
33.	Can't you read the handwriting in the wind?
34.	Change is now baked into the fabric of EDS.
35.	Changes that will ignite our engines of growth
36.	Cut from the same mold
37.	Danny can squeeze money out of a turnip.
38.	David has come out of this one looking like a rose.
39.	David's come out of this one looking like a rose.
40.	Did you hear what they feel?
41.	Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.
42.	Do you follow where I'm coming from?
43.	Does that play into the equation?
44.	Don't burn your bridges till you come to them.
45.	Don't eat with your mouth full!
46.	Don't let the grass grow under a rolling stone.
47.	Don't pull the axe too quickly.
48.	Don't take any wooden Indians.
49.	Don't throw up the white towel!
50.	Drill that message home.
51.	Drop down gorgeous
52.	Eating humble crow
53.	Even in a sewer, the cream rises to the top.
54.	Everything got real dark, like snow.
55.	Everywhere you turn around
56.	Fewer and fewer in between
57.	Fiddling with his guitar
58.	Fodder for the mill
59.	Footloose and fancy-pants.
60.	Frankly, we don't know whether to wind the watch or to bark at the moon.
61.	From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.
62.	From the bottom on down
63.	Get in the boat or swim or get out.
64.	Get the kinks rolling
65.	Go ahead. Spew it off your chest.
66.	Hanging by a live wire.
67.	Have a nice day job.
68.	Haven't we beat that with a dead stick?
69.	He came out of it smelling like a bandit.
70.	He can cry on a dime.
71.	He clams up tighter than a drum.
72.	He couldn’t find his way out of the side of a barn.
73.	He kind of liked Alison, but Heather didn't really flip his whistle.
74.	He knew how to butter his nest.
75.	He reads like a fish.
76.	He received a decease and desist order.
77.	He swept the rug under the carpet.
78.	He took to it like a fish out of water.
79.	He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.
80.	He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
81.	He was watching me like I was a hawk.
82.	He’s a little green behind the ears.
83.	He’s a wolf in cheap clothing.
84.	He’s burning the midnight oil from both ends.
85.	He’s like a duck out of water.
86.	He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.
87.	Here we are in the Holy Land of Israel -- a mecca for tourists.
88.	He's a pretty sharp cookie.
89.	He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.
90.	He's cooking his goose deeper and deeper.
91.	He's not the sharpest marble in the drawer.
92.	He's one brick short of the whole nine yards.
93.	He's really low dog on the totem pole.
94.	He's the meanest man on the face of the universe.
95.	He's up a tree without a paddle.
96.	Hold the Farm!
97.	How would I feel if I were sitting in your shoes?
98.	I ate enough to float a battleship!
99.	I can read him like an open can of worms.
100.	I can read him like the back of my book.
101.	I can see the light at the end of the rainbow.
102.	I could beat him with my eyes tied behind my back.
103.	I could hear the handwriting on the wall.
104.	I could see you itching at the bit.
105.	I didn't have two minutes to rub together.
106.	I don’t think they want to bite off that bullet.
107.	I don’t think we should jump at straws here.
108.	I don’t want anybody stepping on anybody else’s thunder.
109.	I don't want that monkey around my neck.
110.	I dozed in and off.
111.	I feel like a bridegroom waiting at the altar for a blind date.
112.	I feel the comparison paints Chicago in a bad light.
113.	I guess I threw a cog in the wrench.
114.	I guess the foot's on the other hand now!
115.	I have a gift horse in my throat.
116.	I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.
117.	I have been torn betwixt and between the devil and the deep blue sea.
118.	I hope he gets his curve ball straightened out.
119.	I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons.
120.	I left the door wide open, and you didn't take the bait.
121.	I looked to see what I could hear.
122.	I make it my goal to shake every hand that walks in the door.
123.	I shot the wind out of his saddle.
124.	I should move to the other side of the building, so I can see the sunset come up every morning.
125.	I think we got on like a house gathering no moss.
126.	I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.
127.	I turned a blind eye to all that bad stuff I was hearing.
128.	I want to be sure we don't build ourselves a bag of worms.
129.	I want to see you go to town like a house of fire.
130.	I wanted to come out of the chute on the right foot.
131.	I was so excited my heart about fell out of my stomach!
132.	I was the mother hen to all these little ducks.
133.	I wasn't living under my parents' house anymore.
134.	I will miss seeing him around the shoehorn.
135.	I wish they'd hurry up and get their act in gear.
136.	I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.
137.	I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.
138.	I’ll get it by hook or ladder.
139.	I’m just talking out loud.
140.	I'd walk a mile in a camel's shoes to pass through the eye of a needle.
141.	If he doesn't carry Florida, Slim will have left town.
142.	If they do that, they might as well take the open door policy and throw it right out the window!
143.	If worse comes to shove . . . .
144.	If you don't wear your seat belt, you're just a missile waiting to happen.
145.	If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.
146.	Ignorance is golden.
147.	I'll bet she has her clothes made by Orville, the tent maker.
148.	I'm bone empty.
149.	I'm getting up on my feedbox here.
150.	I'm going to go ahead and mow and get it out of the over with.
151.	I'm no Monday morning shortstop.
152.	I'm not the brightest bulb in the drawer, but you are.
153.	I'm not trying to poke holes at anybody.
154.	I'm so busy, I don't know whether I'm coming or not.
155.	I'm sweating like a bullet.
156.	I'm sweating like a stuck pig.
157.	I'm tired of being a pawn in your lousy game of checkers!
158.	In about six months I'll be knocking on your shoulder.
159.	In for a dime, in for a dozen.
160.	Is that going to throw a wrinkle?
161.	Is this a whole nother bucket of worms?
162.	Isn't it nice to not have to look over our backs anymore?
163.	It ain't a pretty sight for the ears.
164.	It dawned across my head.
165.	It doesn't quite cut the muffin.
166.	It isn't rocket surgery!
167.	It kind of defeats the whole point.
168.	It looks like the cows have come home to roost.
169.	It sent goosebumps up my spine.
170.	It sounds good on paper.
171.	It sticks out like a sore throat.
172.	It was playing with fire in the belly.
173.	It was so cold last night I had to throw another blanket on the fire.
174.	It was time to get my act in gear.
175.	It will be music to your wallet.
176.	It will have a special time on our plate.
177.	It’s all moth-eared.
178.	It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
179.	It’s best not to open that can of wax.
180.	It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.
181.	It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.
182.	It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.
183.	It'll be a cold day in January when that happens!
184.	It's a big nut to swallow.
185.	It's a Hallmark moment!
186.	It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.
187.	It's as plain as the egg on your face.
188.	It's gonna snowball through the whole fireworks.
189.	It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice.
190.	It's like a wizard in sheep's clothing.
191.	It's like ice cold electricity passing through your body.
192.	It's like locking the barn door after the nuts have bolted.
193.	It's like pulling hen's teeth.
194.	It's like pushing a rock upstream.
195.	It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.
196.	It's time to step up to the plate and cut the mustard.
197.	It's water under the dam.
198.	I've been up and down like a light switch.
199.	I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.
200.	I've got an ace up my nose.
201.	Just then, the fickle finger of fate reared its ugly head.
202.	Just to throw some evidence on the fire
203.	Keep a stiff upper chin.
204.	Keep your ear to the grindstone.
205.	Keep your nose up!
206.	Kicking off the hockey season
207.	Kill two birds with one egg
208.	Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.
209.	Let's clear up a loose end.
210.	Let's make sure we're all talking off the same sheet of music.
211.	Let's not put all of our cookies in a basket.
212.	Life is a box of cherries.
213.	Life, liberty, and the pursuit of justice for all
214.	Like stealing cake from a baby
215.	Listen! You smell something?
216.	Living from hand to mouth like the birds of the air
217.	Local teen pregnancy rates are off the roof!
218.	Long road to hoe
219.	Loose lips sink like a rock.
220.	Make like a tree and head out.
221.	Moss never grows on a fish out of water.
222.	My mind is an open slate.
223.	Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
224.	No one else can make me feel the colors that you bring.
225.	No use beating him over the head with a dead horse.
226.	Not until frozen pigs fly in hell
227.	Not without a grain of sugar
228.	Nothing out of the unusual
229.	Now I'm going to tell you something that'll really throw a kink in the wrench.
230.	Now that the ball is in our court, let's go for the touchdown.
231.	Now, Senator McCain suggests that somehow, you know, I'm green behind the ears.
232.	Nuke The Unborn Gay Whales
233.	Off the cuff of my head.
234.	Oh my heavens to Betsy.
235.	Oh yeah, it’s like watching wallpaper dry.
236.	One hundred degrees better
237.	Our methodology isn't cast in stone.
238.	Our old car bought the dirt.
239.	Our organization really frowns down on that.
240.	Pause your eyes!
241.	Pensions these days aren't worth the money they're written on.
242.	People are dying like hotcakes.
243.	People will blow smoke and mirrors at you.
244.	Players' names should be entered in numeric order.
245.	Put that in your hat and smoke it.
246.	Raining like a sieve
247.	Right between the nose
248.	Right there on the tip of my brain
249.	Ripple down
250.	Shape up or ship shape.
251.	She flew off the deep end.
252.	She has bigger dogs to fry.
253.	She may want to tackle that battle.
254.	She’s suffering from a detached rectum.
255.	She's burning the midnight oil at both ends.
256.	She's not the toughest cookie on the block.
257.	She's robbing Peter to pay the piper.
258.	Silence is bliss.
259.	Smoking like a sieve
260.	Some people sail through life on a bed of roses like a hot knife slicing through butter.
261.	Someone's going to hang from the yardstick for this.
262.	Sometimes I feel like I'm swimming uphill against the grain.
263.	Sometimes they bite the farm.
264.	Sometimes you have to bite the hand that you're dealt.
265.	Sometimes you've gotta stick your neck out on a limb.
266.	Spare the rod; spoil the broth.
267.	Start at the 40,000-foot level, then drill down.
268.	Step up to the plate and pick up the gauntlet
269.	Stirred the sea into a bowl of boiling cauldron
270.	Surfing the Infobahn [information superhighway]
271.	Tackle that hurdle
272.	Take a flying hike.
273.	Take the ball by the horns and run with it.
274.	That blue whale has become his white whale.
275.	That doesn't mean it's written in gold.
276.	That fish won’t hunt.
277.	That guy’s a bullhead in a china shop.
278.	That may sound great on paper.
279.	That put a monkey in the wrench.
280.	That really hacks me to a crisp.
281.	That was a dialog we started down.
282.	That will open up a whole new can of issues.
283.	That will round out the triangle.
284.	That's a huge weight lifted off my head.
285.	That's grabbing the bull by the horns of a dilemma.
286.	That's the nail that hits us on the head.
287.	That's the one that really swayed me over.
288.	That's using your head for something besides a footstool.
289.	The 700 pound gorilla that escaped the zoo is the 800 pound gorilla.
290.	The bald eagle is the canary in the coal mine of the ecosystem.
291.	The ball stops in Dayton.
292.	The beer flowed like wine.
293.	The bottom line boils down to . . . 
294.	the bottom rung of the ladder
295.	The deputy was willing to cut him a break.
296.	The early bird gathers no moss.
297.	The fan is gonna hit the roof.
298.	The folks in St. Louis burnt the midnight candle to resolve the issues.
299.	The future of the church depends on passing the torch to the next generation. Tonight's speaker is one who has taken hold of the baton.
300.	The gold plating is the crown jewel of that necklace.
301.	The House Of Seven Ushers
302.	The intention is to get a jumpstart on it.
303.	The lizard you keep in the kitchen has become the elephant in the living room in our relationship.
304.	The Maxeys' house deal fell through, so they're back to Ground Zero.
305.	The more it rains cats and dogs, the more things stay the same.
306.	The new fighter jet is the flagship of the army.
307.	The pen is mightier than the half full glass.
308.	The queen is the king of chess pieces.
309.	The rain is coming down like gangbusters!
310.	The rain was coming down in droves!
311.	The ship of state has a difficult road ahead.
312.	The squeaky wheel wins.
313.	There are things that will really sink home with you.
314.	There wasn't a dry tear in the place.
315.	There's a silver lining in all that red ink.
316.	There's light at the end of this rainbow.
317.	These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck.
318.	These two guys are cut out of the same mold.
319.	Theseus performed the herculean task of killing the Minotaur.
320.	They are crumbling at the seams.
321.	They are opening doors that are on the cutting edge.
322.	They counted the votes until the cows had literally gone to sleep.
323.	They cut into a water main, and it was gushing like a mountain.
324.	They don't know yet whether that played a factor in the accident.
325.	They gave him a raw shake.
326.	They need to wake up and smell the music.
327.	They paired off, one by one.
328.	They try to balance a fine line.
329.	They’re diabolically opposed.
330.	They'll never buy the cow if they can get the eggs for free.
331.	They're a legend before their time.
332.	They're in the trenches; they're on the horse and they're riding it.
333.	Things are different when you have fifteen people on your plate.
334.	This is a race where you can turn a corner, and then there'll be another team right there breathing down your throat.
335.	This is just a nightmare waiting to happen.
336.	This is something to put on the back of your radar.
337.	This isn't set in stone.
338.	This snowball is coming down the mountain with a full head of steam.
339.	Three people could halve that.
340.	Throw the spaghetti onto the ceiling to see what sticks.
341.	To get the buy-off of the business partner
342.	To the max degree
343.	Too many oars in the fire
344.	Too many skeletons in her background
345.	Up a tree without a paddle
346.	We all act as one heartbeat.
347.	We are tipping the iceberg.
348.	We can still hang our heads high.
349.	We certainly don't want to rock the apple cart.
350.	We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
351.	We don’t want this project to snowball into a can of worms.
352.	We drove a stake in the stand.
353.	We had some hiccups in the road.
354.	We have to get all our ducks on the same page.
355.	We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.
356.	We need to get a vaccuum cleaner and hose him down.
357.	We need to have photographic ears.
358.	We need to look at it before the other eyes set foot on it.
359.	We need to sit down and walk through some things.
360.	We raised it to new depths.
361.	We should continue to ride the horse that brings in the gravy.
362.	We want to brand the Renascence name to the eyeballs in the chairs.
363.	We were up the creek in a hand bag.
364.	We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
365.	We'll have to get our hands wet.
366.	We'll just deal with it when we cross that bridge.
367.	We'll rewind the calendar.
368.	We're cooking on all four cylinders.
369.	We're going to get locked into a corner.
370.	We're still getting our feet wet on getting rolling here.
371.	What a dirty trap!
372.	What goes around, stays in Vegas.
373.	What’s wrong? Has the cat got your box of chocolates?
374.	When life throws you curve balls, make lemonade.
375.	When the cat’s away, the dog has his day.
376.	when we cross that path
377.	when you boil it down to its nuts and bolts
378.	When you put your best foot forward, it rubs off on someone.
379.	While we are ingesting the author's valuable insights, we may also be swallowing his blind spots.
380.	Why don't you wear that turtle-hair sweater or that herring-tooth jacket?
381.	Without fear of hesitation
382.	You are wise behind your ears.
383.	You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!
384.	You can dish it out, but you can't take it with you.
385.	You can lead a gift horse to water but you can't look him in the mouth.
386.	You can take that to the bank and smoke it.
387.	You can’t change the spots on an old dog.
388.	You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.
389.	You can’t pull the sheep over my eyes!
390.	You could have blown me over with a feather.
391.	You could have knocked me over with a fender.
392.	You could take that guy with a grain a salt.
393.	You could visibly hear the reaction.
394.	You got to take it slowly. You've got to walk with kid gloves.
395.	You have to dance to a different drum.
396.	You hit the nail on the dot.
397.	You must have ears like an eagle.
398.	You need more sugar to get your brain circulating.
399.	You were at your wit's nerve.
400.	Your car plays a link in your normal daily routine.
401.	You're fighting upstream.
402.	You're not pointing blame?