Mixed Metaphor Quotes

“Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

“Blackmailers are never satisfied." His laughter faded into bitterness.

"Aren't they? How do you know?"

His words were empty, hollow. "When you're the brother of a duke and your wife died in mysterious circumstances, sharks come out of the woodwork."

"That's a mixed metaphor."

"Bugger metaphors. They're human sharks and they come out of the shadows when you least expect them.”
― Jennifer Ashley, The Many Sins of Lord Cameron

“The internet is nothing but a jumble of nonsense, an atrocious mixed metaphor. It’s not meant to be understood. First and foremost, it’s a web that you surf. What the hell does that even mean? It not only defies sense but the very laws of physics! And now, apparently, it also contains a cloud. And this is something that’s supposed to be secure? That which looks solid but in fact is not, something literally as thin as air? Perfect!”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“It is these guardians of the medium who have always clipped architecture’s wings are the moment the buds were about to burst open and who have mercilessly pruned back the roots of the medium so that they would not break open the concrete pavement.”
― Christoph Grafe, OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“Whether metaphors are strung together like separate beads on a string, or kneaded together into a compound, it’s important that we can use more than one of them.”
― Karen Sullivan, Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse