MIXED METAPHORS
"as much fun as shooting monkeys in a barrel"
--Gary Swing
- A car comes up behind you, flashing his horn.
- Aaron Colwick
- A carpenter was the low rung on a totem pole.
- Charles Hodge
- A friend in need is the root of all evil.
- Gary Swing
- a heart as big as gold
- Kathy Scott
- A leopard can't change his stripes.
- Al Gore
- A rolling stone is worth two in the bush.
- David Beck
- a stab in the dark
- various people (who don't have guns)
- A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.
- John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
- A stitch in time keeps the doctor away.
- Gary Swing
- a ten-digit word
- The Russler
- Absence is the best policy.
- Gary Swing
- Adam wasn't always the brightest tool.
- Darrell Ankarlo
- All good things come full circle.
- a contributor's neighbor, Linda
- All work and no play play makes Jack healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Gary Swing
- An apple a day is a penny earned.
- Gary Swing
- An automatic process failed. I'm going to have to kick it off by hand.
- The Russler
- and, for the cherry on top, great sound & production that's crisp like a crunchy apple.
- Alan_Caylow
- as easy as falling off a piece of cake
- Brian _Bilston
- [as if] it would somehow bring the public school system crumbling to its knees.
- Mark Davis
- as proud as pea soup
- The Russler
- As we consider the road that unfolds before us . . .
- Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
- back to the grinding board
- Jeannette_Scott
- bare bones thumbnail sketch
- The Russler
- beyond the question of a doubt
- Doug_Yochum
- Birds of a feather killed the cat.
- Gary Swing
- biting the hand that rocks the cradle
- Sherri Barber
- born under a silver spoon
- George Whitney Calhoun
- ¡Botó la casa por la ventana!
- (It threw the house out the window!)
- Latin American saying used when someone throws a lavish party
- Brilliant sunshine rained down on Fort Collins.
- Rush Limbaugh
- But one has to tidy up the loose ends.
- Agatha Christie
- Button your seat belts.
- Rush Limbaugh
- Can't you read the handwriting in the wind?
- Frank Burns
- Change is now baked into the fabric of EDS.
- Dick Brown, cooking & sewing expert
- changes that will ignite our engines of growth
- Dick Brown, with some explosive ideas
- Check and re-check until the cows turn blue.
- Brian _Bilston
- Commissioner Gary Mize toed the cracks with a wary eye.
- Hart County reporter talking about old tennis courts
- Curiosity skinned the cat.
- Gary Swing
- cut from the same mold
- spotted in the newspaper by Eric Goberman
- Danny can squeeze money out of a turnip.
- Terry_Kitsen
- David's come out of this one looking like a rose.
- Dennis Malley
- Did you hear what they feel?
- acquaintance of Steve Barber
- Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.
- Ray Romano
- Do you follow where I'm coming from?
- Steve_Bishop
- Does that play into the equation?
- anonymous sportscaster
- Don't burn your bridges till you come to them.
- a general during WWII
- Don't count your chickens before you put them in your mouth.
- Gary Swing
- Don't eat with your mouth full!
- Russell McLaughlin's parents
- Don't kill the goose that lays the silver lining.
- Gary Swing
- Don't let the grass grow under a rolling stone.
- Jayne Armstrong
- Don't make a mountain out of spilled milk.
- Gary Swing
- Don't pull the axe too quickly.
- Kevin
- Don't put your foot in one basket.
- Gary Swing
- Don't take any wooden Indians.
- The Russler
- Don't take the moral high horse: if the metaphor fits, walk a mile in it.
- Brian _Bilston
- Don't throw up the white towel!
- a marching band director to his students
- Drill that message home.
- someone at EDS
- . . . drawing the eye . . . like a magnet.
- field reporter on NBC5
- drop down gorgeous
- Theresa H's mother, referring to a handsome man
- Early to bed and early to rise makes Jack a dull boy.
- Gary Swing
- eating humble crow
- overheard by Steve Stein
- Even in a sewer, the cream rises to the top.
- Charles Emerson Winchester
- Every cloud has a golden egg.
- Gary Swing
- Everything got real dark, like snow.
- witness to the World Trade Center collapse
- everywhere you turn around
- a college senior
- fewer and fewer in between
- Jerry_L._Miller
- fiddling with his guitar
- Jimmy Webb, refering to Glen Campbell
- fighting uphill
- Herbie Hancock
- Fools rush in where angels and their money are soon parted.
- Gary Swing
- Frankly, we don't know whether to wind the watch or to bark at the moon.
- Dan Rather
- fodder for the mill
- Mark_Davis
- from the bottom on down
- Bill Kidd
- Gag me with a silver spoon.
- Gary Swing
- get all your ducks on the same page
- Brian _Bilston
- get the kinks rolling
- George Harper
- Get in the boat or swim or get out.
- Grace McIntyre
- Go ahead. Spew it off your chest.
- Jeff Feath
- Have a nice day job.
- The Russler
- Haven't we beat that with a dead stick?
- Todd Bruce
- He came out of it smelling like a bandit.
- Gene_McLemore
- He can cry on a dime.
- Kim
- He clams up tighter than a drum.
- Alex, in "Walker, Texas Ranger"
- He has his pulse on everything.
- [name withheld by request]
- He kind of liked Alison, but Heather didn't really flip his whistle.
- Celia_Steele
- He knew how to butter his nest.
- anonymous
- He reads like a fish.
- a New Yorker who claims that people there use a lot of
different verbs in "He/she ______s like a fish."
- He took to it like a fish out of water.
- Michael Ellis
- He wanted to get out from under his father's coat strings.
- Jeff_Orr
- He's a pretty sharp cookie.
- David Wilmot
- He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.
- someone from England
- He's cooking his goose deeper and deeper.
- Kathy Scott
- He's not the sharpest marble in the drawer.
- Vinny Pazienza
- He's one brick short of the whole nine yards.
- The Russler
- He's really low dog on the totem pole.
- John_Galvin
- He's the meanest man on the face of the universe.
- someone at EDS
- heart-wrenching
- anonymous
- . . . her last day as an
eagle . . . flying off to greener
pastures . . .
- Steve P.
- Here we are in the Holy Land of Israel -- a mecca for tourists.
- someone from England
- Hold the Farm!
- The Russler
- How would I feel if I were sitting in your shoes?
- Stan_Womack
- I ate enough to float a battleship!
- Tom VK's mother's coworker
- I can read him like an open can of worms.
- unnamed baseball player
- I can see the light at the end of the rainbow.
- Walt
- I could beat him with my eyes tied behind my back.
- Kev_Newton
- I could hear the handwriting on the wall.
- overheard by Eric Goberman
- I could see you itching at the bit.
- The Russler
- I didn't have two minutes to rub together.
- Scott_Zotigh
- I don’t think they want to bite off that bullet.
- Steve_Boress
- I don’t think we should jump at straws here.
- Rush Limbaugh
- I don't want that monkey around my neck.
- John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
- I dozed in and off.
- Jeff Feath
- I feel like a bridegroom waiting at the altar for a blind date.
- John
- I feel the comparison paints Chicago in a bad light.
- Theresa_Blackwell
- I guess I threw a cog in the wrench.
- Jeannette Scott
- I guess the foot's on the other hand now!
- Capt. Striker
- I have been torn betwixt and between the devil and the deep blue sea.
- Inga
- I just say whatever comes out of my mouth.
- Sherri Barber
- I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that
it was time to circle the wagons.
- Rush Limbaugh
- I know he has passed the baton to Rob Gray, but he has been the big dog from the beginning.
- The Russler
- I left the door wide open, and you didn't take the bait.
- Kyle Messerschmitt
- I looked to see what I could hear.
- Atlanta bar employee
- I make it my goal to shake every hand that walks in the door.
- Jacob Hawk
- I should move to the other side of the building, so I can see
the sunset come up every morning.
- Kyle Malone
- I think we got on like a house gathering no moss.
- Shaun_Fiedler
- I thought it might be a good idea for you to check base with him.
- Hubert_Jones
- I turned a blind eye to all that bad stuff I was hearing.
- overheard by Peter Cox
- I want to be sure we don't build ourselves a bag of worms.
- anonymous
- I want to see you go to town like a house of fire.
- Jeannette Scott
- I wanted to come out of the chute on the right foot.
- John Mabry
- I was so excited my heart about fell out of my stomach!
- "American Idol" contestant
- I was the mother hen to all these little ducks.
- Sandy on "Survivor"
- I wasn't living under my parents' house anymore.
- Misty Lou
- I wish they'd hurry up and get their act in gear.
- Jeff_Giesen
- I will miss seeing him around the shoehorn.
- council member in Lexington, Kentucky
- I'd walk a mile in a camel's shoes to pass through the eye of a needle.
- Gary Swing
- I'll bet she has her clothes made by Orville, the tent maker.
- John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
- I'm a little rusty on that, so I'm going to have to dust off the rust.
- Bobby
- I'm bone empty.
- Jeff Feath
- I'm getting up on my feedbox here.
- Rob_Tudor
- I'm going to go ahead and mow and get it out of the over with.
- The Russler
- I’m just talking out loud.
- Lori Miller
- I'm no Monday morning shortstop.
- radio advertiser
- I'm not the brightest bulb in the drawer, but you are.
- Attorney Doug Monsour to Dr. Edwin Tucker in a deposition.
- I'm not trying to poke holes at anybody.
- Jerry_L._Miller
- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I'm coming or not.
- a top level business exec
- I'm sure he's watching me like a wet hen.
- Sherri Barber
- I'm sweating like a stuck pig.
- Sherri Barber
- I'm tired of being a pawn in your lousy game of checkers!
- Vinnie Faducci
- I've been up and down like a light switch.
- Shaun_Fiedler
- I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.
- Cher
- I've got an ace up my nose.
- Ken Zotigh
- If he doesn't carry Florida, Slim will have left town.
- Dan Rather
- . . . if the child was shoplifting, that's one thing, but if her parents were
teaching her to steal, that's a whole new ballpark. . . .
- anonymous, quoted by Debra Bentley
- If they do that, they might as well take the open door policy
and throw it right out the window!
- Stan_Womack
- If worse comes to shove . . . .
- The Russler
- If you don't wear your seat belt, you're just a missile waiting to happen.
- Christine Wick
- If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut
right out from under your feet.
- British foreign minister Ernet Bevin
- Ignorance is golden.
- Gary Swing
- In about six months I'll be knocking on your shoulder.
- Reggie_Walker
- In for a dime, in for a dozen.
- Santiago
- Is that going to throw a wrinkle?
- David Beck
- Is this a whole nother bucket of worms?
- Keith_from_TGI
- Isn't it nice to not have to look over our backs anymore?
- anonymous, quoted by Sherri Barber
- It ain't a pretty sight for the ears.
- anonymous
- It dawned across my head.
- anonymous
- It doesn't quite cut the muffin.
- panel speaker on a serious TV show
- It isn't rocket surgery!
- Michael Kirk
- It kind of defeats the whole point.
- someone in a business meeting
- It looks like the cows have come home to roost.
- Frank Drebbin
- It sent goosebumps up my spine.
- Jim_Kuykendall
- It sounds good on paper.
- The Russler
- It was a piece of breeze! Like falling off a duck's back.
- The Russler
- It was time to get my act in gear.
- Mark_Rathwell
- It will be music to your wallet.
- advertiser
- It will have a special time on our plate.
- Robert K. Oglesby
- It'll be a cold day in January when that happens!
- John_Nutting's ex-girlfriend
- It's a big nut to swallow.
- Mike_Neff
- It's a Hallmark moment!
- Ann Jewell
- It's as plain as the egg on your face.
- The Russler
- It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.
- Gary Swing
- It's gonna snowball through the whole fireworks.
- Michael_Willey
- It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice.
- Norah O'Donnell on The Chris Matthews Show
- It's like a wizard in sheep's clothing.
- T.A._Miller
- It's like ice cold electricity passing through your body.
- a novelist
- It's like locking the barn door after the nuts have bolted.
- Jayne Armstrong
- It's like looking for a needle before you leap.
- Gary Swing
- It's like pulling hen's teeth.
- anonymous
- It's like pushing a rock upstream.
- overheard by Steve Stein
- It's so far removed, it goes right over our heads.
- Robert K. Oglesby
- It's water under the dam.
- overheard by Steve Stein
- jack of new tricks
- Gary Swing
- Just then, the fickle finger of fate reared its ugly head.
- Selby Anderson
- just to throw some evidence on the fire
- business meaning attendee
- Keep a stiff upper chin.
- James MacDonald
- Keep up the good word.
- Tony Ruebsam
- Keep your door closed and your enemies closer.
- Brian _Bilston
- Keep your eye on the ball and your foot on the throttle.
- Shawn Bailey
- Keep your nose up!
- Manuel
- kick the elephant down the road
- a fictional mayor of NYC
- kicking off the hockey season
- sportscaster
- kill two birds with one egg
- Michelle_Perry
- Let those without sin, live in a glass house.
- Jim Steinman
- Let's clear up a loose end.
- Rush Limbaugh
- Let's make sure we're all talking off the same sheet of music.
- Tom_Sweeterman
- Let's not put all of our cookies in a basket.
- Doug_MacDougal
- Let’s split the baby with the bathwater.
- anonymous
- Life is a box of cherries.
- overheard by Steve Stein
- life, liberty, and the pursuit of justice for all
- Johnny Cochran
- like stealing cake from a baby
- overheard by Dan Butler
- Listen! You smell something?
- Ray Stantz
- Live And Let Learn
- The Russler
- living from hand to mouth like the birds of the air
- Sir Boyle Roche
- Local teen pregnancy rates are off the roof!
- overheard by Steve Barber
- long road to hoe
- anonymous
- Look before you laugh last.
- Gary Swing
- Loose lips sink like a rock.
- Gary Swing
- Make like a tree and head out.
- Jesse
- Maybe I'm not the sharpest tool in the chandelier.
- Van Montgomery
- Moss never grows on a fish out of water.
- Jayne Armstrong
- Muchos kudos.
- trilingual Jeanne_Lewer
- My mind is an open slate.
- The Russler
- Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
- Farber
- 99 times out of ten, that's what you'll get.
- Kent_Martin
- No kinks in his armor
- anonymous
- No one else can make me feel the colors that you bring.
- Minnie Ripperton
- No use beating him over the head with a dead horse.
- Durward_Cline
- not until frozen pigs fly in hell
- anonymous
- not without a grain of sugar
- anonymous
- nothing out of the unusual
- Kelly_Gryting
- Now I'm going to tell you something that'll really throw a kink in the wrench.
- Parker_Allen
- Now, Senator McCain suggests that somehow, you know, I'm green behind the ears.
- Barack Obama, October 7, 2008
- Now that the ball is in our court, let's go for the touchdown.
- a lieutenant governor-elect of New Mexico, I forget which
- Now we're up to sync.
- The Russler
- Nuke The Unborn Gay Whales
- bumper sticker
- Off the cuff of my head.
- overheard by Steve Stein
- Oh yeah, it’s like watching wallpaper dry.
- someone at Adrian Donahue's workplace
- Oh my heavens to Betsy.
- Mark Davis
- one hundred degrees better
- anonymous
- opening up a whole hill of beans
- Brian _Bilston
- Our methodology isn't cast in stone.
- Sam_Jellad
- Our old car bought the dirt.
- The Russler
- Our organization really frowns down on that.
- Brian_Lawrence
- Pause your eyes!
- Madison Michelle to her Granny K.
- Pensions these days aren't worth the money they're written on.
- Shaun_Fiedler
- People will blow smoke and mirrors at you.
- acquaintance of Steve Barber
- Players' names should be entered in numeric order.
- a league's instructions to coaches
- pole vaulting with horses
- Cynthia_Thomas
- Put that in your hat and smoke it.
- Jesse
- . . . putting aside every spare nickel. You know, building up a little goose egg.
- Rob Benjamin
- raining like a sieve
- Jesse
- right between the nose
- Paul_Foley
- right there on the tip of my brain
- David R. Scott
- ripple down
- Compton and Jansen
- running around like chickens without a shepherd
- The Russler
- She flew off the deep end.
- anonymous
- She has bigger dogs to fry.
- Ken Zotigh
- She may want to tackle that battle.
- Craig_Bilodeau
- She's not the toughest cookie on the block.
- my cousin Kim
- Silence is bliss.
- Terry_Castellanos
- Silence is louder than words.
- Gary Swing
- smoking like a sieve
- Glen_Ayers
- Someone's going to hang from the yardstick for this.
- radio advertiser
- Sometimes I feel like I'm swimming uphill against the grain.
- Steve Barber
- Sometimes they bite the farm.
- Ken Zotigh
- Sometimes you have to bite the hand that you're dealt.
- The Russler
- Spare the rod; spoil the broth.
- The Russler
- Start at the 40,000-foot level, then drill down.
- various IT managers
- step up to the plate and pick up the gauntlet
- Dave Musgrave
- stirred the sea into a bowl of boiling cauldron
- Robert Taylor
- surfing the Infobahn [information superhighway]
- Stan Kelly-Bootle
- tackle that hurdle
- Al_Poulin
- Take the ball by the horns and run with it.
- Earl
- That doesn't mean it's written in gold.
- Kathy Scott
- That fish won’t hunt.
- Chad Funk
- That may sound great on paper.
- Sean Hannity
- That put a monkey in the wrench.
- Debra Bentley (who did it on purpose before knowing about this book)
- That really hacks me to a crisp.
- Jeannette Scott
- That was a dialog we started down.
- Andrew_P._Smith
- That will round out the triangle.
- unnamed novelist
- That will open up a whole new can of issues.
- Frank Velez
- That's a huge weight lifted off my head.
- Shaun_Fiedler
- That's grabbing the bull by the horns of a dilemma.
- Gary Nijman
- That's the nail that hits us on the head.
- Tomas
- That's the one that really swayed me over.
- KSCS deejay
- That's using your head for something besides a footstool.
- Jeannette Scott
- The ball stops in Dayton.
- Steve_DeHaven
- The beer flowed like wine.
- someone on TV
- The bottom line boils down to . . .
- Farrell_Wilson
- the bottom rung of the totem pole
- Robert K. Oglesby
- The deputy was willing to cut him a break.
- Sgt._Sam_Pollock
- The early bird gathers no moss.
- Darin_Scheff
- The folks in St. Louis burnt the midnight candle to resolve the issues.
- someone in a memo
- the four corners of the globe
- The Russler
- The future of the church depends on passing the torch to the next generation.
Tonight's speaker is one who has taken hold of the baton.
- Robert Taylor
- The grass is always greener where angels fear to tread.
- Gary Swing
- The House Of Seven Ushers
- Kathy Scott
- The intention is to get a jumpstart on it.
- Walter_Morgan
- The love of money makes the heart grow fonder.
- Gary Swing
- The Maxeys' house deal fell through, so they're back to Ground Zero.
- Kathy Scott
- The odor was out of sight.
- The Russler
- The president threw in the white flag of surrender.
- Mitt Romney
- The rain is coming down like gangbusters!
- David Beck
- The rain was coming down in droves!
- someone who prefers it to rain cats and dogs, not cattle
- The ship of state has a difficult road ahead.
- unnamed politician
- The squeaky wheel wins.
- Rob_Tudor
- There are things that will really sink home with you.
- Rob_Tudor
- There is more than one way to spoil the broth.
- Gary Swing
- There wasn't a dry tear in the place.
- someone on a "reality" show
- There's a silver lining in all that red ink.
- NBC5 news anchor Mike Snyder
- There's light at the end of this rainbow.
- Glenn Zimmerman, WNBC-TV News
- These people are just blowing smoke and mirrors at you.
- overheard by Steve Barber
- These two guys are cut out of the same mold.
- anonymous
- They are crumbling at the seams.
- one of the guys on "Hell's Kitchen"
- They are opening doors that are on the cutting edge.
- Edmond Pope
- They counted the votes until the cows had literally gone to sleep.
- Dan Rather
- They cut into a water main, and it was gushing like a mountain.
- Jeannette Scott
- They don't know yet whether that played a factor in the accident.
- newscaster
- They gave him a raw shake.
- John_Galvin
- They need to wake up and smell the music.
- John_Galvin
- They paired off, one by one.
- John Scott
- They try to balance a fine line.
- John_Casey
- They'll never buy the cow if they can get the eggs for free.
- anonymous
- They're a legend before their time.
- radio advertiser
- They're in the trenches; they're on the horse and they're riding it.
- Terry Johnson
- things along that nature
- Erica
- Things are different when you have fifteen people on your plate.
- Sam Mihdawi
- This is a race where you can turn a corner, and then there'll
be another team right there breathing down your throat.
- Wil on "The Amazing Race"
- This is just a nightmare waiting to happen.
- Kathy Scott
- This is something to put on the back of your radar.
- overheard by Steve Barber
- This isn't set in stone.
- lots of people, confusing setting in concrete with carving in stone
- This snowball is coming down the mountain with a full head of steam.
- Dale_Dubois
- Three people could halve that.
- Kathy Scott
- Throw the spaghetti onto the ceiling to see what sticks.
- a Law & Order character
- to get the buy-off of the business partner
- a techie wanting buy-in and sign-off simultaneously
- to the max degree
- Rush Limbaugh
- too many oars in the fire
- anonymous
- too many skeletons in her background
- Kristin Brown
- Two heads are always greener on the other side.
- Gary Swing
- up a tree without a paddle
- a Walt Disney character, I forget which
- Watch what you write with a fine-tuned comb.
- Brian _Bilston
- We all act as one heartbeat.
- Yugo foreign minister Nebojsa
- We are tipping the iceberg.
- acquaintance of Steve Barber
- We can still hang our heads high.
- member of U.S. men's 4x100 Olympic team
- We certainly don't want to rock the apple cart.
- Steve Stein's boss
- We could beat them with our eyes behind our backs.
- George Crabtree
- We drove a stake in the stand.
- someone in my office
- We had some hiccups in the road.
- someone in Jon Kindschy's office
- We just keep getting the tail end of the stick.
- Lancaster,_Texas Mayor_Margie_Waldrop
- We need to get a vaccuum cleaner and hose him down.
- David Beck
- We need to have photographic ears.
- Ken_Blanchard
- We need to look at it before the other eyes set foot on it.
- Mike_Wajda
- We need to sit down and walk through some things.
- Ken Zotigh
- We raised it to new depths.
- anonymous Toastmaster
- We should continue to ride the horse that brings in the gravy.
- Jesse H. Borcher
- We want to brand the Renascence name to the eyeballs in the chairs.
- a salesman
- We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
- anonymous
- We'll have to get our hands wet.
- colleague of Steve Stein
- We'll just deal with it when we cross that bridge.
- football captain speaking on team selection
- We'll rewind the calendar.
- anonymous deejay
- We're cooking on all four cylinders.
- Robert K. Oglesby
- We're going to get locked into a corner.
- Tom_Hogan
- We're still getting our feet wet on getting rolling here.
- Jim_Ballestro
- What a dirty trap!
- Jonathan_Polk
- What could possibly go wrong in this picture?
- Blackmon Mooring
- What goes around, stays in Vegas.
- The Russler
- When life throws you curve balls, make lemonade.
- Earle Dukes Roberts III
- when we cross that path
- anonymous
- when you boil it down to its nuts and bolts
- Ken Zotigh
- When you put your best foot forward, it rubs off on someone.
- Theresa H's mother
- While we are ingesting the author's valuable insights, we may also be
swallowing his blind spots.
- Robert K. Oglesby
- . . . whilst I polish these puppies up . . .
- Walter Becker of Steely Dan
- Why don't you wear that turtle-hair sweater or that herring-tooth jacket?
- Schell Browning
- . . . who were going to fight you hook, line, and sinker.
- Rush Limbaugh
- windy as a hornet
- Jesse
- without fear of hesitation
- John Popper
- worth every penny it's written on
- The Russler
- You are wise behind your ears.
- The Russler
- You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!
- Jiminy Cricket
- You can dish it out, but you can't take it with you.
- The Russler
- You can lead a gift horse to water but you can't look him in the mouth.
- Gary Nijman
- You can take that to the bank and smoke it.
- Stephen J. Cannell
- You can't get blood from a molehill.
- Gary Swing
- You can't have your cake and flock together.
- Gary Swing
- You can't make an omelette without breaking stride.
- Brian _Bilston
- You can't teach an old dog to skin a cat.
- Gary Swing
- You could have blown me over with a feather.
- a friend of the Russler's
- You could visibly hear the reaction.
- Robert K. Oglesby
- You could take that guy with a grain a salt.
- Cynthia_Zotigh
- You got to take it slowly. You've got to walk with kid gloves.
- Vinny Cerrato, former GM of the Redskins, commenting on RGIII's recovery from knee surgery
- You have to dance to a different drum.
- Laura Schlessinger
- You hit the nail on the dot.
- Cynthia_Vega
- You must have ears like an eagle.
- Sam Gerard in "The Fugitive"
- You need more sugar to get your brain circulating.
- Dave Beck
- You were at your wit's nerve.
- Mike Shearer
- You're fighting upstream.
- John Heft
- You're not pointing blame?
- Mike Shearer
- You've heard just a brief glimpse.
- anonymous
- Your car plays a link in your normal daily routine.
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