Reasonable and unreasonable worlds: some expectations of coherence in culture implied by the prohibition of mixed metaphor.
Is that a mixed metaphor about bones?
It would be a mistake to believe that everything in the attendance allowance garden—an awful mixed metaphor—is working nicely and smoothly.
That might be a rather badly mixed metaphor, but it is appropriate.
I have to use a mixed metaphor to explain how this problem strikes me.
In fact, there is a via media, if that is not too much of a mixed metaphor.
When it comes to ship repairing it is, to excuse the mixed metaphor, a horse of another colour.
However, by so doing he drew the more attention, if he will forgive the mixed metaphor, to the dog that did not bark.
