History Main / MixedMetaphor

** This troper is pretty sure Biff also says "Hasta la bye-bye" at some point.
** Let's just say Biff does this a lot.
** And Griff.

* From the first ''AustinPowers'' film: "But sadly, that train has sailed."

->He was marooned in the jaws of a human minefield, and with every step the noose grew tighter.

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--> "Well like they say in Brooklyn, early to bed early to get the worm... or is it the bagel?"

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* From ''DanVs.'' "The Dentist,":

* The Seventh Doctor on DoctorWho started out doing this a lot. "A bird in the hand keep the doctor away." "Time and tides melt the snowman." It was initially intended to be a consistent quirk but, after he'd come to grips with himself, he (or rather, the writers) grew out of it.

* The Seventh Doctor on DoctorWho started out doing this a lot. "Time and tide melt the snowman." It was initially intended to be a consistent quirk, but after he'd come to grips with himself he kind of grew out of it.

** Similarly, from ''{{The Naked Gun}}'' 2: "Well, it looks like the cows have come home to roost!"

* [[http://community.livejournal.com/weepingcock/549453.html This]] NSFW LiveJournal post describes a particularly ridiculous example.

-->--Sports columnist Jerry Izenberg in the ''New Jersey Star Ledger'', as quoted in the [[http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html Lyttle Lytton contest]] of 2007

-->He was marooned in the jaws of a human minefield, and with every step the noose grew tighter.
--->--Sports columnist Jerry Izenberg in the ''New Jersey Star Ledger'', as quoted in the [[http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html Lyttle Lytton contest]] of 2007

* ''DaveBarry Slept Here'' describes the Great Crash of 1929 as the day when "the nation's seemingly prosperous economy was revealed to be merely a paper tiger with feet of clay living in a straw house of cards that had cried 'wolf' once too often."

* [[DaveBarry "I could not have said it better with a ten-foot pole."]]

Don: Sounds more like a bomb.

* There was a clusterbomb of mixed metaphors in episode 4 of season 2:

-->'''Jim Hacker''': We need to nail this leak!
-->'''Bernard''': Erm, technically Prime Minister, if you nail a leak, you make another one.
-->'''Sir Humphrey''': Yes, I must say it's a rather undignified posture. But it is what artists always do -- crawling towards the government on their knees, shaking their fists.
-->'''Jim Hacker''': Beating me over the head with their begging bowls.
-->'''Bernard Woolley''': Oh, I am sorry to be pedantic, Prime Minister, but they can't beat you over the head if they're on their knees. Unless of course they've got very long arms.

-->'''Ricky''': You remember the old saying "Birds of a feather smell the same"?
-->'''Lucy''': Oh, you mean "A rose by any other name flocks together"?
-->-''ILoveLucy''

-->'''Miss Kitty''': You put a mouse on the stage, your saloon's gonna be as empty as Death Valley on a cold day in June when the snow don't fall.
-->'''Cat R. Waul''': ...What?
-->-''AnAmericanTail 2''

-->'''Josh:''' You went over my head and behind my back.
-->'''Amy:''' Quite the contortionist am I.
-->-''TheWestWing''