MIXED METAPHOR.
The English Bar is familiar with some rare specimens of accommodating metaphor, as, for instance, the aquatic opening : “These gentlemen have fished about until they have found a mare’s nest, and on that they hang their bill.” The latest addition to this class of mixed utterance comes from a defective agency, which states that its officers “thought they had a good clue, but it exploded.”
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 870, 8 November 1906, Page 21
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67MIXED METAPHOR. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 870, 8 November 1906, Page 21
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