Mixed metaphors:
What's sauce for the goose, is a chicken crossing the road.
Stupid saying:
I told you a million times not to exaggerate.
(Apologies if I duped; I'm too lazy at the moment to read the entire thread.)
Stupid saying:
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him brush his teeth.
More Mixed Metaphors
A guy I know mixes metaphors frequently and unintentionally. Here are a couple of his most resent slip-ups:
At the start of a difficult job... "We sure have our hands cut out for us today"
"Steve's gonna fix my motorcycle and I'm gonna fix his chimney. One's right up his bag and one's right up my bag"
These were actual quotes. A friend of mine is a mason and works with this person. We get a big kick out of his sayings. So much so that I was prompted to do an internet search and found this thread.
I'll let you know if I hear any new ones.
Mixed metaphore.
"Behind every great man there's a woman rolling her eyes."- Jim Carrey Bruce Almighty
A bird in the hand is worth the world to a cat having a bad day.
Better the devil you know than the bird in the bush.
It is better to have love and to have lost than to have loved...and to have lost half your stuff in the settlement.
Succeed
"If at first you don't succeed, succeed until you do succeed." -Bart Simpson The Simpsons
Don't shoot Melinda Messenger!
(any more from your friend, maxpower?)
Setanta wrote:I'll cross that bridge when i burn it.
or, i'll burn that bridge when i get to it
Never count your bridges til you burn your chickens.
I just heard this one out there in the real world:
"see the light at the end of the holy grail"
Blow your trumpet at both ends.
Here's one from the mason friend. It's not really a metaphor but I still though it was worthy of posting. This was one he got from the morning news.
"A deer hunter was playing with his knife while in a tree stand awaiting his prey. He fell out of the stand and stabbed himself in the face with the knife. Luckily the hunter lived because the knife missed his brain by only a meter!"
Of course this was while he was setting large granite floor pieces using a laser level for pin point accuracy.
Hopefully I'll here more as the weather turns warmer and business picks up.
:-)
fish of a feather swim together
and from Alan Partridge:
Sail close to the bone.
Alan Partridge! (sigh) My hero!
He who hesitates looks before he leaps.
The proof of the pudding depends on how much brandy is in it.
A bird in the hand isn't fouling his own nest.
It's going to be a walk in the same ballpark.
Life is a bowl of cherries, so make lemonade
go to war, meet interesting people, and kill them!!!
