mixed metaphors

I just overhead a student telling her advisor "I'm treading on thin water."

What are your favorite mixed metaphors?

He knows the head guru at the company.

I used to work with a girl who would get all exasperated and say
"When it rains, it snows."

not a mixed metaphor, but close:
"she better wake up and smell something"

it's not rocket surgery

A mind of information.

I do not have any favorites... they give me the heebie-wiggles.

don't put all your crows in one basket 'til the cows come home to roost... yeah.. they really said it, although the sheer volume of alcohol might have had something to do with it.

We'll cross that bridge after its burned behind us.

That reminds me of one of my favourite sayings. Can't recall where I heard it but it stuck in my mind.

We'll burn that bridge when when we come to it.

or as Ted Kennedy said
"I'll drive off that bridge when I get to it."

SWMBO's oft used phrase:
"like skating on wet ice"

Maxuel Smart "give a man an inch, and he thinks he's a ruler"

Mrs. Dar will occasionally say "I'm just talking out loud".

Brianna wrote:

He knows the head guru at the company.

Would that be the one with the dirty knees?

I've always enjoyed "...a hard road to hoe."

No shit. That's because its supposed to be row. So much for our agrarian ancestors, huh?

...must be why they got out of farming.

Spexxvet wrote:

Maxuel Smart "give a man an inch, and he thinks he's a ruler"

Heh. On our honeymoon, I bought a fridge magnet that says that, except it's "Give a husband an inch..." Still there, now holding up mini-rat's artwork.

Who let the cat out of the burning bush?

Floats like a bee, stings like a butterfly!

Heard last night: "...but here we are at the ninth hour."

ow

At least they got an early start!