# Mangled Metaphors **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363 "2003-09-28T21:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/21 "2003-09-29T17:36:00Z")
A rural prostitute surely has a tough road to ho. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/22 "2003-09-29T18:47:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > \*\*Ah – so he’s not playing with a full duck? \*\* I thought that was “Not playing with a dull …” Er, never mind 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/23 "2003-09-29T18:54:25Z")
Hey, **SkyBum** , you have to watch out for those bald-faced lice. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/24 "2003-10-01T03:46:55Z")
Running around like a chicken without an asshole. Smoking like a fish. that’s some nice lox! ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/25 "2003-10-01T13:03:00Z")
No use prevaricating around the bush. [From: _Wallace and Gromit_ The Wrong Trowsers] ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/26 "2003-10-01T14:09:30Z")
I always use “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it”. Violence for the sake of violence, ya gotta love it. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/27 "2003-10-01T15:54:25Z")
My favorite, from _Bloom County_… Opus: …you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke. ---
**Author:** ![buzzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@buzzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buzzie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/28 "2003-10-01T17:04:58Z")
I’t’s as easy as falling off a bicycle. ---
**Author:** ![UES\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@UES\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UES_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/29 "2003-10-01T17:17:52Z")
Maybe so, but we’re not out of the woodwork yet. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/30 "2003-10-01T17:29:21Z")
I have a friend who always says that something is “six of one, a dime a dozen.” I have called him on it several times and he tells me that he does it on purpose and that I’m the only who has ever mentioned it. Another friend says “right off the back…” ---
**Author:** ![Kickback\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kickback\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kickback_Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/31 "2003-10-01T17:48:49Z")
Like water off a Duck’s bill. Don’t count your chickens until you break a few eggs. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/32 "2003-10-01T17:58:19Z")
Half of one, six dozen of the other. How long are you going to beat that dead horse’s ass? This whole project is going to Hell in a handkerchief. It was doomed from the word goat. …and Bob’s your auntie. (unveiling the piece of resistance) Wallaby! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/33 "2003-10-01T18:55:29Z")
One my grandmother used to use to describe women who talked too much by saying “her mouth flaps like a duck’s ass.” ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363/34 "2003-10-01T18:58:43Z")
One of my job placement clients, years ago, when asked what he felt he could do with his professional skills, said “I am trade of all jacks!” Of course, he had the excuse of not being a native English speaker. It was still funny as hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mangled-metaphors/204363.md?page=1)