Mixed Metaphors

Bird brains of a feather, flock together.

That place is an echo-chamber of horrors.

The ugly duckling turned out to be the black sheep of the family.

A penny saved is worth two in the bush

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make hay where the sun don't shine.

Never put off til tomorrow what you can‘t take with you.

Curiosity killed the early worm

@earl-of-trumps said
Curiosity killed the early worm

He speaks with a forked tongue like water off a duck’s back.

The squeaky wheel gathers no moss

@fmf said
You've only got one netaphor there: an early worm. "Curiosity" is not a metaphor. You're getting sayings and metaphors mixed up.

A penny saved, is pretty useless to you.

-VR

@earl-of-trumps said
To be more accurate, I am using saws or adages, and that is not the right way to do it, agreed.

@fmf said
A thread for trying to express yourself with as many mixed metaphors as you can, please.

@earl-of-trumps said
To be more accurate, I am using saws or adages, and that is not the right way to do it, agreed.