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| | Metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Metaphor is present in written language back to the earliest surviving writings. | | | allegory: An extended metaphor in which a story is told to illustrate an important attribute of the subject | | | For example remove the word 'like' from William Shakespeare's simile, "Death lies on her, like an untimely frost," and it becomes "Death lies on her, an untimely frost," which retains almost exactly the same meaning. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
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| | McVay, Metaphors for the Church in Ephesians |
| | In mixed metaphor "we understand the speaker's intention directly; hence mixed metaphor is a sin against eloquence rather than a sin against meaning" (Metaphor and Religious Language, 73). | | | A biblical example of a "full" metaphor would be: "`I (object) am the bread (image) of life (ground)" (John 6:48). | | | "Paul as Strong Poet: Metaphor, Irony, and Re-description in Pauline Theology," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, 17-20 November 1990. |
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http://www.andrews.edu/~jmcvay/puc_classes/relb342/Metaphor.htm
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| | Indeed one of their evils is that they make a writer and his readers believe that he is exercising his reason when he is only moving from trite image to image. | | | 'On the eve of' is a dead metaphor for 'about to experience', and to complete it with 'the dawn of a day' is as bad as to say, _It cost one pound sterling, ten_ instead of _one pound ten_. | | | Even the prose writers of the Romantic movement regarded prose as the poor relation of poetry; they did not see that prose has its own reasons for existing, its own state of being and its own beauties. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/3/1/13311/13311.txt
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| | somniloquy.org: Introduction to Metaphor (first draft) |
| | Firstly, there's a verbal metaphor to describe the boots -- they're quacking, which is a bird thing. | | | In the last verbal metaphor, "Mary burrowed through the crowd," the use of the verb "burrowed" tells us something about both Mary and the crowd she's in. | | | These are both grammatical in their nature -- of course, because poetry is made of language and all languages are grammatical. |
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http://somniloquy.org/archive/v2/poetry/statements.php?item=11
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| | Christdot :: Christ. Period. :: My Enemy, Myself |
| | I'll risk being a nit-picker by praising God that the author of the article is teaching theology and not English grammar. | | | Praise God that Paul wrote before the rule against mixed metaphors. | | | Ramming these two images together exposes the dialectic that brings evangelicals together even as it pulls us apart. |
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http://christdot.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2637
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| | Metaphor. Fowler, H. W. 1908. The King's English |
| | This illustrates the danger of deciding hastily on the deadness of a metaphor, however common it may be. | | | Sword of the devil, running with the blood of saints, poisoned adder, thy work is done. | | | Confusion of metaphor is sometimes alleged against sentences that contain only one metaphor—a manifest absurdity. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/116/305.html
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| | Vakki -Symposium 1999 |
| | Consistency of metaphor is what English writers expect, sometimes to a greater extent than Finnish readers or translators would even notice. | | | There is no reason such effects should be lost in translation if the translator is sufficiently attentive to suggestions implicit in the writer/-s use of figurative language. | | | Allegoricity as extended metaphor and how it should not be lost in translation |
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http://www.uwasa.fi/hut/vakki/symposium99/tiusanen.html
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| | Figures of Speech |
| | Simile is Latin word for "like." Metaphor is from the Greek word for "transfer"; in using it we | | | The trick is to be original and true to | | | It's true, we feel, when coming on a good comparison, It's true, but I never |
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http://www.ualr.edu/~rmburns/RB/figure.html
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| | Using Metaphors in Creative Writing |
| | Most books give rather boring examples of metaphors such as my father is a bear or the librarian was a beast. | | | Or so says Aristotle in Poetics: "[T]he greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor." It is "a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars." | | | John swelled and ruffled his plumage (versus John was a peacock) |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_metaphor.html
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| | Books: Mixed-Up Metaphor (Tucson Weekly . 11-24-97) |
| | And because literature remains, in part, a reflection of society's collective psyche, Gornick has an insight to be reckoned with. | | | "I think we are at a time in history where metaphors are not clarified, and that's why we don't have great literature." | | | Die-hard romantics might be tempted to explain her away as old, divorced and cynical, but her prose is refreshingly cynicism-free. |
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http://weeklywire.com/ww/11-24-97/tw_book1.html
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| | Print Article: It's always best to let sleeping metaphors lie |
| | I date my personal fondness for the mixed metaphor back to school days when an English teacher returned a marked assignment. | | | I do so love a juicy mixed metaphor, aka "mixaphor". | | | Metaphors are so integrated into our language that beyond the four walls of an English class, one pays them little heed. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/06/25/1088144971152.html
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| | This brief excerpt from an unpublished book-length manuscript, "Romancing the Dream: Reflections at the Speed of Metaphor," appeared in the Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter, Vol. | | | Indeed, metaphors and images are their mother-tongue, and it is only when we awaken from a dream that we attempt to shrink its pictures into words of a one-thousandth of their value. | | | Only when the metaphors are spinning fast enough to overcome the gravity of any one referent will they orbit in their proper constellations and transmit to us the music of the spheres. |
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http://www28.brinkster.com/gregmogenson/mixed.htm
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| | Definition of metaphor - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, from metapherein to transfer, from meta- + pherein to bear -- more at | | | Now you can take the Eleventh Edition with you anywhere as Franklin's new Speaking Electronic Handheld! | | | 2 : an object, activity, or idea treated as a metaphor : |
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?metaphor
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| | Interview With Sheila Davis Pt. 2 |
| | The line, "I hold the lock" falsifies reality. | | | Now think a minute: If the singer had metaphorically "locked" his heart, HE, of course would hold both the lock and the key. | | | It was a case of seduction by rhyme. |
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http://www.iwritethesongs.com/newsletter/sheiladavis_pt2.cfm
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| | TheDudesHouse.com Forum |
| | It's supposed to be "Is the Pope Catholic?" or "Does a bear shit in the woods?" | | | The other mix-ups I like are when the Big L says he lost his legs to a Chinaman in Korea (which could also be a repetition thing) and when Walter talks about the worthy adversary in Viet Nam as the 'man in the black pajamas' which is a reference to the Japanese Ninja | | | My favorite mix up is when he says that Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women. |
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http://www.thedudeshouse.com/forum/f_index3.php?id=1910
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| | Mixed metaphor - Minnesota Daily |
| | The other play at the Mixed Blood this season is a riotous comedy detailing five foreigners, who all speak different languages, and who gather in an unkempt New York high school classroom for a “total immersion” English class. | | | But for the audience of the Mixed Blood, every catastrophe that happens onstage adds to the play’s growing hysteria, and every student that rises and exits the Primary English class is another comic triumph. | | | Fortunately, at the Mixed Blood, this also happens to be a very funny road. |
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http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2001/11/08/28818
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| | The UVic Writer's Guide: Mixed Metaphor |
| | The metaphor is mixed because the images of cloud and sea do not match. | | | For example, in an essay on the language used in describing pain relief medicine, a student wrote: | | | A mixed metaphor attempts to create an extended comparison but fails because it is not consistent with itself. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/SentMixMet.html
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| | Althouse: NPR, blogger guys, and the Miers nomination. |
| | Another cricket metaphor of which I'm fond: "Not quite the straight bat." How droll! | | | As a mixed metaphor it makes no sense. | | | It's got more subreferences than a Dennis Miller rant, but it's like a series of trite parentheses to fish through, or outlining a particulary verbose sentence in Latin. |
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http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/10/npr-blogger-guys-and-miers-nomination.html
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| | Study Sheet 11 for JOU 125 |
| | MIXED METAPHORS: A metaphor is simply a comparison (technically, one written without the use of such words as "like" and "as"). | | | The worst offender in this regard is the mixed metaphor: two or more images of the same thing that are wildly different or contradictory. | | | In fact, the readers can't possibly get any image of such an event. |
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http://psj.franklincollege.edu/miller/brweek12.html
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| | SparkNotes: Ultimate Style: Mixed Metaphors |
| | If you tend to get carried away with metaphors, reread your work to make sure you’ve compared one thing to one other thing only. | | | A mixed metaphor occurs when you begin by comparing something to one thing and then shift and compare it to something else entirely. | | | For students sick of scribbling on index cards, SparkNotes English Vocabulary Study Cards are the answer. |
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http://www.sparknotes.com/writing/style/topic_127.html
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| | Our bed of roses was a bunch of baloney: continuing Catherine, Remi, and DWA. |
| | A metaphor is “in figurative language, an implied comparison between two things compared with each other.” A mixed metaphor is when two different such comparisons are operational at the same time. | | | This fantasy period is probably the time when the bed of roses is created that the lover will later have to lie in, thorns and all. | | | I occurs to me, Remi, that it must be nice for you to have someone else who can always be blamed for anything stupid you might say. |
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http://www.truthtree.com/Love/posts/59.html
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| | A warning shot in the dark. MetaFilter |
| | Sounds like a mixed metaphor to me languagehat, as the two metaphors involved don't illustrate the same idea. | | | Creating your own mixed metaphors is a whole different ball of fish. | | | Delving into the story, it appears by paragraph three that the mixed metaphors are appropriate, in this case. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/21917
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| | Vol 2 Ed 3 - mixed metaphor review |
| | This performance contained the seeds of something that is bound in time to be very, very good indeed. | | | I have no doubt in time it could become an even more engaging, funny and resonant viewing experience. | | | Go!, though quite developed by presentation time at Mixed Metaphor, could be polished and evolved further to make a still stronger impression. |
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http://proximity.slightly.net/v_two/v2e3a2.htm
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| | Brighthand — Pocket PC's Mixed-up Metaphor |
| | Trotter Hardy is the Associate Dean of Technology and Professor of Law at William and Mary School of Law, and is the Founder and Editor of the Journal of Online Law. | | | But then I discovered that Pocket PC also does not honor two other powerful ease-of-use metaphors that are part of Windows, namely that when you open something, you can close it when you're done, and when you go somewhere, you can go back. | | | It's intended to leverage this relationship in order to reduce the learning curve for new Pocket PC users--users like me, for example--by presenting a familiar interface and a familiar metaphor. |
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http://www.brighthand.com/article/PPC_Metaphor
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| | Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press |
| | We publish dictionaries for people learning English all over the world | | | mixed was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below. |
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http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?dict=B&searchword=mixed
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| | Mixed Market Metaphors By William Saletan |
| | Flaw: Who's playing while the sissies and real men are on the bench? | | | Here's a rundown of the models circulating in this week's coverage, with their implications, their conceptual flaws, and the ugliest mixed metaphors to which they've been attached. | | | The answer depends on where you think the market is going or should go. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/102500
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| | CLINTON LOBBIES FOR THIRD TERM / LIE-BRARY A MIXED (-UP) METAPHOR |
| | His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it... | | | century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. | | | The lie-brary is hardly the "bridge to the 21 |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/813751/posts
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| | mixed metaphor: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2004, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. | | | A succession of incongruous metaphors, as in The negotiator played his cards to the hilt. | | | Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/mixed-metaphor
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| | Votre Mater |
| | These readers wish they had found, say, "host" instead of "sea" (since it is intelligible that one take up arms against a swarm of enemy), or "raise a dike" instead of "to take arms" (against that "sea of troubles"). | | | In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," the British writer George Orwell called attention to several particularly grotesque examples from hack propaganda (in this case communist, though instances abound from every persuasion): | | | And the defenders have found a way, convincing to themselves, to construe it in a fashion that redeems it on a higher level, a third-order interpretation (as it were) that recuperates a justifying sense. |
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http://www.teachertommy.com/Lennon.htm
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| | We catch ourselves uttering our own now and don't know whether they are a universal plague on the language or he has affected only his immediate surroundings. | | | Keywords: malapropes, mixed metaphor, spoonerism Lines: 211 Well I have been collecting these screwed up expressions for a number of years now and it has become an interesting list. | | | They are all malapropes, mixed metaphor, spoonerisms or some twist of this kind. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/humor/spoonlis.txt
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| | the mixed metaphor club |
| | the mixed metaphor club: discuss, discourse, rant, converse, deride, expound, extrapolate, delineate, contend, refute, release, etc |
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| | Witchypoo Text Only |
| | "Witchy Poo Mixed Metaphor 7" Kill Rock Stars / Josh-A whole lotta art. | | | I never knew this before, but there's like a zillion witchy poo members! | | | "Witchy Poo Mixed Metaphor (Kill Rock Stars) - Twenty-one folks from the Olympia, WA scene contributed to this 7" (three drummers, two bassists, two guitarists, two random noise makers and 12 vocalists). |
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| | MixedMetaphors.net |
| | That is what MixedMetaphors.net is. It's an attempt to distract myself from realizing that others don't care, an attempt to distract others from realizing that I don't care, and an attempt to revolutionize the very concept of what it means to be a human being through the subtle yet canny use of metaphor... | | | Anything less will be considered a total failure. | | | Perhaps you mean to ask what ISN'T MixedMetaphors.net NOT? |
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| | January/February 2000 Archives |
| | The Communist menace is a snake in the grass that is gnawing away at the foundation of our ship of state" is a classic mixed metaphor from a University of Chicago student’s essay. | | | I’ve never met a metaphor that I didn’t like, and I’ve never met a mixed metaphor that I didn’t collect. | | | I now grab the bull by the tail and present the cream of the dregs of figures of speech that just don’t add up: |
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http://www.languagemagazine.com/internetedition/jf00/lastlaugh.html
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| | Spindrift, Colby Rodowsky - HarperChildrens |
| | “Onward and upward, with nary a mixed metaphor among you.” | | | “I'm not even sure I'd know a mixed metaphor if I met it head-on,” said Tommy. |
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http://www.harperchildrens.com/teacher/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0064409910
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| | Calvin College - English Department |
| | Mixed Metaphors from Dumb Things People Say, by The Russler. | | | Paula Morrison admits that these aren't all mixed metaphors, but she did hear them, and since we're too busy to create new categories, we'll share them here with all best wishes: | | | James Breig reports hearing an irate caller on C-Span exclaim to author and FoxNews host Bill O'Reilly, "I wouldn't buy your book if you gave it to me." |
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http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/lang/mixmet.htm
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| | The Well Mixed Metaphor |
| | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in the ship plows the sea); broadly : figurative language - met.a.phor.i.cal aj |
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http://members.aol.com/russbag1/metaphor.htm
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| | Grammar rulers including William Safire's don'ts |
| | Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing. | | | Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. | | | If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a link verb is. |
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http://www.writecontent.com/Editor_s_Role/Gooder_Grammar/gooder_grammar.html
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| | 'Windhorse': Mixed metaphor for hope |
| | His film takes us into a modern Tibet rarely seen, giving us a different | | | with "Windhorse," a piece of fiction that brazenly mixes metaphors and |
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http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1999/4/2_2.html
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| | Telephony: Netpodium's mixed metaphor - Netpodium Interactive Broadcasting Suite - Product Announcement |
| | Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. | | | That early shot at convergence wasn't in vain. | | | The company that O'Halloran co-founded last year, Seattle-based Netpodium, bills itself as "a new communications metaphor" that combines the simplicity of phone communication with the reach and pricing of streaming media over the Internet. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0TPY/is_n8_v235/ai_21105679
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| | mixed metaphor |
| | 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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http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0540528.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - mixed metaphor |
| | awkward combination of ideas: a combination of two or more metaphors that together evoke a strange or incongruous image, e.g. | | | Click here to search all of MSN Encarta | | | Search for "mixed metaphor" in all of MSN Encarta |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861693713
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| | AskOxford: mixed metaphor |
| | • noun a combination of incompatible metaphors (e.g. |
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