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noun
the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”
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Origin of mixed metaphor First recorded in 1790–1800
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How to use mixed metaphor in a sentence Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
Residents of the neighborhoods where cops are needed the most are mixed on the impact of the apparent slowdown.
Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
Furthermore, mixed race children are the fastest growing population in the country.
Once again he accused the West of being unfair to Russia, bringing back his favorite metaphor, the Russian bear.
Broken crocks should be strewn upon the tray, and on to this is heaped peaty soil mixed with sand.
"I'm not proud," replied Davy, provoked at being mixed up with Gobobbles in this way.
One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
Yet the feeling is in most children weak and vacillating, and is wont to be mixed with other and less noble ones.
A mixed type of the present day Negro, she was slightly tall, and somewhat slender, with a figure straight and graceful.
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British Dictionary definitions for mixed metaphor
noun
a combination of incongruous metaphors, as when the Nazi jackboots sing their swan song
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