What about mixed metaphors...

[smith]

One of my colleagues comes out with some classics...

"The penny finally dawned on him"

"You could hear a mouse drop"

[wee quinnie]

My last boss used to really bug me with:

"I'm not just sitting here on my laurels".

Arghh!

[Keef]

Not the sharpest penny in the pound

Not the brightest tool in the box

[mockney piers]

I loved a vox-pop on the news once about crime where the chap said

"They should put 'em all on a desert island and throw away the key"

lovely :-D

[gurugobinsingh]

I once heard a commentator say r.e Savage;

"He's walking on fine ice"

Didn't make it into Colemanballs though - or not any I have read.

[LostThePlot]

smith Wrote:

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> One of my colleagues comes out with some

> classics...

>

> "The penny finally dawned on him"

> "You could hear a mouse drop"

Just made these up (I like to do this sort of literary stuff)

You can't teach an old dog to change his spots...

A bird in the hand is worth a thousand words...

A rolling stone spoils the broth...

Age before insult to injury...

Once bitten, twice a bride...

Armed to the back teeth...

Don't put all your cooks in one basket...

[smith]

Another colleague has a whole list of them, but it's difficult for me to come right out and ask for them "because I want to add them to a thread on the East Dulwich Forum"...

[Brendan]

Does the pope shit in the woods?

[Keef]

No but the bear wears a funny hat.

[Michael Palaeologus]

You play ball with me, and i'll scratch yours.

[bagpuss78]

I'll keep my ears peeled

[bagpuss78]

That?s the name of the ball we?re in.

[spadetownboy]

one in kate bush is worth five in the hand.

[Brendan]

I will double cross that bridge when I get to it.

Not exactly a mixed metaphor but something someone once said to me that I found rather funny.

[Annasfield]

smith Wrote:

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> One of my colleagues comes out with some

> classics...

>

> "The penny finally dawned on him"

> "You could hear a mouse drop"

"It is a catch 29 situation" - said colleague, dyes her hair blonde to match her brain....(as do I (sometimes) before I get lynched)

[blinder999]

This in from Jon Snow:

'As we toil away on the anvil of fact and mix our metaphors with gay abandon, this is the way it's shaking down for tonight's outing of Channel 4 News. (Sorry, I've had a good lunch).'