Mixed Metaphors
  We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
  We need to lower the playing field.
  I wouldn't do that for a ten foot pole.
  I wouldn't touch that with a million dollars.
  He's a little green behind the ears.
  We've just begun to scratch the iceberg.
  I don't mean to be chasing a dead horse.
  If you do that you'll open a whole ball of wax.
  Everyone here is on the seat of his pants! [CNN reporter during the Florida presidental election fiasco]
  That just tickled the pink out of me [with thanks to Joan Solheim].
  I don't mean to throw a monkey into the wrench.  [radio talk show host]
  I don't mean to step on anyone's sacred cow … [radio preacher]
  He was running around like a chicken with its legs cut off.
  You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to figure that out.
 
 
 
  
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