Mixed Metaphors

[Cymbeline]

Is anyone else as obsessed with the mixed metaphor as I am? I find it hilarious how often people get things wrong (myself included). My top two so far are: "When push comes to crunch" and "hard as larry". Anyone got any more?

[Quizmonkey]

I always remember a lecturer (in linguistics no less!) coming out, very knowingly, with the phrase "putting up hurdles on thin ice" which fitted the context perfectly but even so...

[crete]

my aunt said her favourite song was rug on the pavement....................blanket on the ground !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SteveD]

....where the hand of man has never set foot....

[Theland]

The dark hole of Calcutta!

[Cymbeline]

That's when the penny clicked!

[aristotle]

I liked using a sledgehammer to crack a few rotten apples but I think it was said as a deliberate joke!

[koster]

Regarding "happy as Larry", who was Larry?

[Leight0n]

At school, when asked to give an example of a proverb, a lad said.
"A bird in the hand is not always a Thrush"
Always remember that one!

[Quizmonster]

Koster, click here for information on Larry.

[Snowy Owl]

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice."

[Mei_Li]

You can lead a fish to water but you can't make it drink

[curlyperm]

Mr curly (whose chinese and cant seem to get his head round a lot of these) used to say ' Oh he was laughing off his head' : ( he meant laughing his head off , just doesnt sound right?
Not the same but when my daughter was about 4 and she wanted to say New York...........she ALWAYS said Yew Nork, and the more she tried the more confused she got (still has problems now and shes 14!!!

[Aprilis]

I used to know someone who would say "That washes no ice with me."

[joko]

don't know what side of the fence you were buttered on

[Alibobs]

I work with the disabled and one of the items you can use to help transfer from a chair to a bed is called a banana board (basically a flat board that's banana shaped)

I was talking to a carer last week who said "He may be able to manage if he had a banana boat"

[chevrolet1.8]

one my wife came out with was 'thats the bees whiskers'!

[bigl]

An Indian guy I once worked would say things like "If someone doesn't take that boy under their arm pit the long hairy arm of the law will get him"

[BoroughGal]

I knew someone who used to say he was "right as rainpence"....! I started saying it because I liked it, and it stuck to the point that I don't even realise I'm saying it now - making me look daft...!

[gymz1]

I have always liked "Never shut a gift horse in the eye"

[johntrevor]

How about ,people who live in glass houses shouldn`t undress in the dark?