As sharp as a button

“A very impressive candidate – as sharp as a button”

Origin: sharp as a knife + bright as a button

Meta-crimp

This is an invitation to join me in the world’s first ‘Meta-crimp’. I’ll make a suggestion for the first half of a mixed metaphor & I’d welcome suggestions for the second half. OK, so it’s not crimping in the Booshest sense of the word, but it’s the best description I could come up with. Anyway, here’s the first bit:

You can take a horse to water…

Any takers?

Don’t step on his thunder

“You got to let him get on with it, don’t step on his thunder”

Origin: Step on his toes + Steal his thunder

This one sounds so right, I think I have genuinely used it.

Hell or high tea

“I’ll get that tender in on time, come hell or high tea”

Origin: come hell or high water + high tea

You’re flogging a gift horse

“I’d give up if I were you, you’re flogging a gift horse”

Origin: flogging a dead horse + look a gift horse in the mouth

“Flogging a dead horse” has many wonderful variations, let us know which you have heard or say…they don’t have to be mixed could just be an evolution.