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Which is still true in the carrying out of your marvellously mixed metaphors.
What Can She Do?
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Yet, on reflection, I'm not sure it was a mixed metaphor at all.
The Irish Times
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Without wanting to mix metaphors, it has been downhill since then.
The South African
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They treasure a bon mot; a good malapropism or a splendidly outrageous mixed metaphor.
The Irish Times
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Probably because it is such a very badly mixed metaphor.
The Plastic Age
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Thus mixing metaphors and many thoughts, he hurried ahead to open the gate for Hiram.
Taken Alive
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Maybe it was just a mixed metaphor after all.
The Guardian
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Normally, I'd have made fun of Ryan's mixed metaphor.
Bones Are Forever
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Mixed metaphors and corporate gibberish are alive and well.
The South African
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Harry could mix metaphors like no one I knew.
Bones to Ashes
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The other is I'm gonna horribly mixed metaphors here.
The new yorker
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Only, it is a two-edged rivet-tomix metaphors-andkeeps us stiffnecked against all sorts of calls.
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
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A, Unsustained Metaphor; B, Overdone Metaphor; C, Spoilt Metaphor; D, Battles of the Dead; E, Mixed Metaphor.
Three Articles on Metaphor / Society for Pure English, Tract 11
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The prophet, as I said, mixes metaphors.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
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Pointing out his mixed metaphors seemed unwise.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
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And not the least bad thing about it is the way it lends itself to horribly mixed metaphors.
The Irish Times