craigb
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Mixed metaphors
Or should that be "mixed-up" metaphors?
I just heard a song with the line "Like a jet plane landing, the pain is overwhelming." Um, ok. So, did this plane land on you or what? They don't call a crash a landing so that's not it... I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm failing to see how a jet plane landing can cause overwhelming pain (unless, perhaps, some guy's mother-in-law was on that plane coming for a visit?).
That said, maybe we can come up with some good ones on our own? Ya? Not intentional mash-ups like "That guy upstairs is sharp as a marble!" but more along the lines of "Like putting jam on a roll, my feet kept getting colder!"
So, got any interesting ones? It might be fun to make a song out of some of them eventually...
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 21:41:03
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2014/03/19 00:52:40
I'm going to have to chew on the biscuit a little in order to get my head round this hurdle.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 21:45:46
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So what you are proposing is like a game of Ker-Plunk where if you pull out the wrong stick everything goes up in smoke?
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 21:48:06
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I think I'm warming to the idea now, much like a salmon in the moulting season.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 21:51:43
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Loves is a rollercoaster, kicking you like a mule.
(four the fourfer)
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 21:55:16
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☄ Helpfulby Mesh 2014/03/19 11:06:32
Lead with the chin and show 'em your arse.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 21:58:10
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☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2014/03/19 14:17:54
Straummy will have loads of these once he's googled the lights out.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 22:40:57
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craigb
Or should that be "mixed-up" metaphors?
I just heard a song with the line "Like a jet plane landing, the pain is overwhelming." Um, ok. So, did this plane land on you or what? They don't call a crash a landing so that's not it... I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm failing to see how a jet plane landing can cause overwhelming pain (unless, perhaps, some guy's mother-in-law was on that plane coming for a visit?).
That said, maybe we can come up with some good ones on our own? Ya? Not intentional mash-ups like "That guy upstairs is sharp as a marble!" but more along the lines of "Like putting jam on a roll, my feet kept getting colder!"
So, got any interesting ones? It might be fun to make a song out of some of them eventually...
That is a long, long way to go just for a rhyme. Having said that, I like the in-law idea. It could also be a loved one leaving, a la By The Time I Get To Phoenix or Leaving On A Jet Plane. Are you looking for bad metaphors in songs, idioms, or completely original phrases?
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/18 22:44:03
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Like loves gentlest caress she came crashing headlong through the wall.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 00:58:57
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Old55
Are you looking for bad metaphors in songs, idioms, or completely original phrases?
Sure! I just thought the lyric was interesting yet completely nonsensical. The Bouy is on the right train to getting his bangers and mash. 
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 04:47:33
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I just read one..apparently someone ''sparked a storm'' on Twitter yesterday. Eh?
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 05:36:23
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Like a water color in the rain, I knew just what to say when I caught her cheating.
My car didn't start because the dairy had sold their last cow.
The boys on the team made a bet but Laura still wore the costume her Mom made for her in the play.
(Just about any lyric from a Bush song.)
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 08:55:51
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Eight miles high and when you touch down
Like a jet plane landing, You'll find it's unsettling
Signs in the street that say where you're going
Are somewhere, the pain is overwhelming
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those INLAWS coming to your town
Rain gray town known for its moulting season
In places small faces unbound without reason ....
Round the squares huddled in storms
Some laughing some Loving Gentle Caress
Sidewalk scenes and black limousines
Some driving, some crashing headlong through the wall
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 10:44:00
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McArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing running down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 11:33:26
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Old55
McArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing running down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain
The Bakers?
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 14:04:17
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Old55
McArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing running down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain
Oh my!
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 14:10:59
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And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear--Someone Saved My Life Tonight(Elton John).
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 14:28:12
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2014/03/19 14:34:41
Jonbouy
Straummy will have loads of these once he's googled the lights out.
I'm preparing to strummage like a knife through a china shop.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 14:33:40
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Jonbouy
Straummy will have loads of these once he's googled the lights out.
I'm preparing to strummage like a knife through a china shop.
 You just reminded me of 'Arthur' who used to be a footie commentator on Wiltshire Radio..he'd some out with some classics like; 'They're going through the Swindon defence like...like a knife through a tin-opener!' 'He thought he was going to pass the ball, but that was just a grey heron' 'Must be nearly full-time..the ref's looking at his whistle'
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 14:47:30
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Ah, poor Sid. NOT a very good dart player himself, but so passionate of the game (or maybe just passionate with Phil Taylor?). Too bad he's no longer around. He was a member of a forum where I'm a senior admin and I've had a few chin wags with prior world champions about him (they would sometimes stay at my house when they were in the Pacific Northwest area of the U.S.).
In American Baseball we had an announcer that could produce similar lines as your footie announcer. Jerry Coleman. Another who passed away recently... Then there's Yogi Berra. Some of his lines are legendary.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/19 17:52:49
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jamesg1213
I just read one..apparently someone ''sparked a storm'' on Twitter yesterday. Eh?
My favourite real one is still "And Keegan was there like a surgeons knife....BANG!!!"
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/25 22:23:13
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Not necessarily a mixed metaphor, but a missed metaphor that always bugs me when I hear L.S. "Free Bird": "This bird you cannot change". Cries out to be: "This bird you cannot cage". It even fits poetically.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/25 22:32:13
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You can't teach an old dog to put his hand in the bush.
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Re: Mixed metaphors
2014/03/25 22:48:18
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rbecker
Not necessarily a mixed metaphor, but a missed metaphor that always bugs me when I hear L.S. "Free Bird":
"This bird you cannot change".
Cries out to be:
"This bird you cannot cage".
It even fits poetically.
I believe it was Neal Young that gave them the bird...
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