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Meaning of "mixed metaphor"
mixed metaphor: Occurs when different figures of speech are jumbled together, creating a confusing or inconsistent comparison in a sentence or expression
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- An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.
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I could spot a mixed metaphor a mile away.
A mixed metaphor that I get the point.
Sorry you had to see that mixed metaphor.
That is the worst mixed metaphor you have ever uttered.
That 's a little gross and an oddly mixed metaphor.
I told him that was a mixed metaphor and he would insist.
With English Paper One in just ten days ' time, I could spot a mixed metaphor a mile away.
A slightly mixed metaphor but you know what I mean.
I am aware of the mixed metaphor.
It 's a mixed metaphor that is prone to confusion.
Sorry for the mixed metaphor.
The mixed metaphor store?
This is a very mixed metaphor.
Hey, a mixed metaphor is the least of your problems, my friend.
Sounded like a mixed metaphor to me.
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Free-range chickens are sitting ducks, if you will excuse the mixed metaphor.
A very pretty mixed metaphor.
Catachresis, A mixed metaphor ( sometimes used by design and sometimes a rhetorical fault ).
Check you out, mixed metaphor.
Now, that 's a mixed metaphor if I ever heard one.
In this, the analysis is correct ( though the mixed metaphor is ugly ).
Well, it was just a mixed metaphor and since we were discussing education, I.
First of all, Reginald, I know how you hate a mixed metaphor.
It 's a mixed metaphor.
I know that, but you know what I mean. - Mixed metaphor.
Well, it was just a mixed metaphor and since we were discussing education, I… Thank God!
That 's a really mixed metaphor.
Where we going? The mixed metaphor store?
Whoo! That 's a mixed metaphor.
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