Reality Check by Dave Whamond for April 03, 2023

Metaphors be with you.

We’ll just cross those bridges before they hatch.

I never metaphor I didn’t like.

(The Greek root meant to carry across, to transfer. I have seen pictures of Greek moving vans with the word written on the side.)

:Love the one Ralph is spouting.

We’ll cross that river when the bridge is burned.

Snug as a rug in a bug.

They should change their name to "Mixed Metaphors “R” Us"

Nip it!… Nip it in the butt!

Sorry, sorry! That’s supposed to be “bud”… dang autocorrect!

Our motto is “Metaphors, shaken, not stirred!”

I’m running around like the chicken cut my head off.

That train has sailed.

Antlers in The Tree, by Whoogoos d’ Moose

Brown Spots on the Wall, by Whooo Flung Pooo.

Obviously not the brightest knife or the sharpest crayon.

You can lead a horse to water, but that doesn’t make him a duck.

My friend’s wife was famous for her mixed metaphors. My favorite was, “Don’t just sit there like a bump on a screen door.” No clue how she came up with that one!

Yeah! You can do better than that; it’s not rocket surgery!

Better the devil you know than the deep blue sea.

He’s already been banned from “Analogies ‘R’ Like Us”.

Metaphors remixed.

‘я’

Malaprop Man (from Frank and Ernest)

Pffft. It’s a caribou in a coal mine, you two-bit hack!

This is mixed up.

He was there until the cows came home to roost

Up a canoe without a bird in the hand!

See, George, there’s no metaphor store.

I’ve known 3s and 5s, but I never metaphor

Learned a new word: “Catachresis”. Gaggle says there’s a subtle difference between it and a metaphor, but catachresis would be more appropriate for today’s offering :

“In Catachresis, the borrowed term is necessitated by the lack of a sufficient supply of proper terms to signal every idea or object. However, in metaphor, the substitution is merely by choice, employed for the sake of clarity and decorative enhancement.” …!

( in other words the ‘R’-Us guy is at a loss for words )