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Mixed metaphor   /mɪkst mˈɛtəfɔr/   Listen
Mixed metaphor

noun
1.
A combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect.





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"Mixed metaphor" Quotes from Famous Books



... WARD has been accused of perpetrating a mixed metaphor when he warned the Government, the other day, that "they would wake up and find the horse had bolted with the money." Is it not, however, a fact that when a horse bolts he sometimes takes a bit ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 • Various
... Zoe, mixed metaphor and all, who at seventeen kept Doll's House, Freud, Anna Karenina, and Ellen Key on the ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst


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