The mixed metaphor thread

[Olly Buckle]

A fun creative thread.
This is your window of opportunity , don’t let it fly out the door, your chance to create an original mixed metaphor, the opportunity to change to the sort of horse that only fools and beggars would ride into mid stream.

[seigfried007]

Blood money is thicker than water on your hands.

[seigfried007]

Not just as sure if I've got what a "mixed metaphor" is just as yet...


Joe put the pedal to the metal and grabbed the bull by the horns.

or would "He stepped up to the plate and grabbed the pedal by the metal." work better?

[Olly Buckle]

Metaphor is using something to represent something it doesn't mean literally.
For example "He is a lion in battle" or "he was in the heat of the battle". People don't turn into lions and the temperature does not rise in the center of the battle. "He was a lion in the heat of the battle" is mixing them in the simplest way, but I am sure you can do better than that.

[buyjupiter03]

I do this all the time! Sheesh, I think the best one I came up with lately was something like "It's no walk in the picnic." Mixed "life isn't a walk in the park" with "life's no picnic".

[Luc]

Ok, I'm giving this a try:

Rather then roar like the fury of fire he decided to slither himself away into quiet submission when seeing those guns assembled into a line of fire in waiting.