Your favourite mixed metaphor

[McQueen 17,867]

C'mon everyone.

I think it's time we laid all our eggs on the table.

[Mr Mulliner 0]

Stan Alves: "He gets a big tick on the back"

Mark Maclure: "You know what? We'll just have to wait and see how the deckchairs fall"

[pilgrim 122]

"see you later crocodile"

[1 red eye 1 blue eye 771]

I wouldn't eat that with a ten foot pole

[Nasher 33,617]

Your as useless as tits on a bull

That isn't a mixed metaphor.

[Demonstone 22,816]

A colleague once told me I was as loose as a cannon.

[daisycutter 29,738]

People who live in glass houses should get out and smell the roses

(do people actually live in glass houses?)

[old dee 23,872]

People who live in glass houses should get out and smell the roses

(do people actually live in glass houses?)

Seriously doubt it!

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,909]

People who live in glass houses should get out and smell the roses

(do people actually live in glass houses?)

Actually, yes. Well, at least one person...Phiilip Johnson's Glasshouse

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

"Its no skin off my back." - Olisik, Nov 14th Training thread.

Missed the apostrophe too

[Tony Tea 2,809]

"The [censored] is going to hit the roof."

[daisycutter 29,738]

Up [censored] creek wihout a fan

[Demonator 93]

I don't think it's a mixed metaphor, but what really annoys me is when people say "That will learn you!" Now call me stupid.....but wouldn't it be "teach?"

Edited November 14, 2012 by Demonator

[Tony Tea 2,809]

"The hand's on the other foot."

[dee-luded 2,959]

Don't count on your fishfingers, when the chips are still in the woodpile.

[H_T 3,049]

"Don't count your eggs before they hatch"

[dee-luded 2,959]

A colleague once told me I was as loose as a cannon.

you must be an age journo,

my dear watson?

[Outside fifty 967]

Jack Dyer " He extends his arms into the air like giant testicles to take the mark"

Not really a mixed metaphor but it still makes me laugh.

[Outside fifty 967]

"Their coming home with a wet sail". Somehow in football speak this means exactly the opposite of what it does in sailing.

[Steamin Demon 392]

I don't think it's a mixed metaphor, but what really annoys me is when people say "That will learn you!" Now call me stupid.....but wouldn't it be "teach?"

I think you will find that the people who say this have watched one to many Simpsons episodes.

[jabberwocky 2,301]

You shouldn't throw wood in loose beavers.

[McQueen 17,867]

"It's all the same, 6 dozen of one, half of another"

[Spaghetti 264]

Clint Bartram just gave a good one in his exit interview with Burgan.

Talking about his plans for the immediate future...

"I've got a few things in the pipe works"

[McQueen 17,867]

Batram just gave a good one in his exit interview with Burgan.

Talking about his plans for the immediate future...

"I've got a few things in the pipe works"

Just like he's had a few pies on the go recently.

[Grapeviney 9,800]

Not so much a mixed metaphor as a mangled maxim, but i hate it when people say the "the proof will be in the pudding".

The proof of the pudding is in the eating!