mixed metaphor in a sentence
Examples
- If it has anything to do with pushing the envelope of glass, pardon the mixed metaphor, I'll be a bell jar.
- Woolley is always quick to point out the physical impossibilities of Sir Humphrey's or Hacker's mixed metaphors, with almost obsessive pedantry.
- The prime minister is constantly being ridiculed for his mixed metaphors, fractured grammatical constructions and gross insults to the Russian language.
- If someone says to me, ` So what if a sentence has mixed metaphors, it's just a travel guide,'I see purple.
- Woolley is always quick to point out the physical impossibilities of Sir Humphrey's or Hacker's mixed metaphors, with almost excessive pedantry.
- "The ball's in our court, " defensive end Kenard Lang said in a double mixed metaphor that accurately sums up Washington's position.
- Matthew Smyth, too, mixed metaphors in a paneled manly bedroom furnished with a Georgian secretary and Lucite night stands, among other things.
- It will only serve to harden others'positions, and fan the flames of the edit war ( sorry for the mixed metaphor ).
- The highly developed alternative vocabulary including the mixed metaphors, hypercorrection, malapropisms and mis-pronunciations of the regular characters are much-repeated by the show's fans.
- The pedigreed audience of the Commonwealth Club of California failed to appreciate the canine comparison, already overstuffed by Perot's rich melange of mixed metaphors.