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mixed metaphor

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mixed metaphor
a combination of incongruous metaphors, as when the Nazi jackboots sing their swan song


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In fact, the football - mixed metaphor or not - is in the NFL's court.
In every corner the details have been heavily governed, so much so, that to use a mixed metaphor, a critical eye can almost hear the details groan as the interrogation continues; If Lewerentz never cut a brick, how can that raking detail between the wall and the concrete roof be rightly resolved?
Many excellent thinkers have lacked perfect pitch, however, and it's the copy editor who should be embarrassed by a mixed metaphor in print ("the pedestal was merely a gilded cage").
 
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