How To Use Mixed metaphor In A Sentence
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Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
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The new job has allowed her to spread her wings and really blossom, " is a mixed metaphor.
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His work routinely exhibits a Joycean verbal playfulness and exuberance, and is littered with inventive neologisms and mixed metaphors.
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Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
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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
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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.
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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.
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The new job has allowed her to spread her wings and really blossom, " is a mixed metaphor.
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-- 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
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The new job has allowed her to spread her wings and really blossom, " is a mixed metaphor.
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The word maudlin (67), and the complicated mixed metaphor in which the gilded toy of line 68 apparently becomes a sweetmeat in
Annotations
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But we shall get a clearer idea of the nature of mixed metaphor if we regard all these as violations of the following simple rule: When a live metaphor (intentional or unintentional) has once been chosen, the words grammatically connected with it must be either (a) recognizable parts of the same metaphorical idea, or one consistent with it, or (b) unmetaphorical, or dead metaphor; literal abstract nouns, for instance, instead of metaphorical concretes.
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The mixed metaphor is unfortunate, but his story line sounds promising and adds suspense.
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The word maudlin (67), and the complicated mixed metaphor in which the gilded toy of line 68 apparently becomes a sweetmeat in 69, suggest that Shelley is subtly alluding to the Prince of Wales's sentimental love affair with the twice-widowed Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837), a Roman Catholic whom he could not wed legally without forfeiting the crown.
The Devil's Walk (Broadside version)
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His account of his road trip has an endearingly amateurish quality-not least because of the author's penchant for mixed metaphors and overwrought prose.
