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mixed metaphor
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.”
mixed metaphor
noun
- a combination of incongruous metaphors, as when the Nazi jackboots sing their swan song
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mixed metaphor1
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Example Sentences
"Mixed metaphor," murmured Clarissa, and went to sleep comfortably, feeling that Carlo was a wall.
"One does not hear with one's heart," said I, smiling, and stirred to plague her for her mixed metaphor.
And with pleasure at the helm, goodness is a drug in the market,—if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor.
She's a mighty hand at books, as it is—quite a budding blue-stocking, if that isn't a mixed metaphor.
I'll leave you to digest the mixed metaphor undisturbed while I go below and help with the patients who have begun pouring aboard.
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