Mashed Metaphors And Improbable Imagery
Lift Your Language
Metaphors add colour to your language but they are best used simply, and singly.
This is an infamous example of a mishmash of metaphors. You’ve probably heard it before:
He opened the floodgates to a Pandora’s box of worms.
Whoever first said it (if anyone really did) clearly liked the idea of ‘opening the floodgates’ enough to use the same concept agai…
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