mixed metaphor

How To Use mixed metaphor In A Sentence

• Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
• The new job has allowed her to spread her wings and really blossom, " is a mixed metaphor.
• His work routinely exhibits a Joycean verbal playfulness and exuberance, and is littered with inventive neologisms and mixed metaphors.
• Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
• Don't use mixed metaphors, that is, different metaphors in relation to the same subject: "Since it was launched our project has met with much opposition, but while its flight has not reached the heights ambitioned, we are yet sanguine we shall drive it to success. How to Speak and Write Correctly
• Pardon the mixed metaphor, but as those of us who rode the roller coaster from start to finish know, this isn't, alas, a team that's mastered the art of the cakewalk.
• The sentence is an example of the author's tendency to overwrite, and to let his thoughts get obscured by mixed metaphors and convoluted syntax.
• The new job has allowed her to spread her wings and really blossom, " is a mixed metaphor.
• -- If what is begun as a metaphor is not completed as begun, but is completed by a part of another metaphor or by plain language, we have what, is called a _mixed metaphor_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
• The new job has allowed her to spread her wings and really blossom, " is a mixed metaphor.