Can you mix a merry metaphor

Title: Can you mix a merry metaphor
Creator: Wood, Kenneth P.
Language: English
Year: 1939
Subject: Metaphor.
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Fulltext: In no deliberative body in the world is the mixed metaphor so much in its element as in the British House of Commons. As examples of what is commonly called the "Irish bull," the following list is submitted: "There was I, standing prostrate at the feet of royalty." "I smell a rat; I see it floating in the air; and, by heavrn, I'll nip it in the bud!" "A thorny subject which has long been a bone of contention among us." "An oral agreem€nt is not worth the paper it's Written on." "I will repeat what I was about to say when the honorable member interrupted me." - : j · ! ' 1 ~1 "Our tongues ar.e tied, our hands are frettered, and we are really beating the afr to no purpose." "The honorable member would denude us of every rag ·of the principks we have been proclaiming from the housetops."-Kenneth P. Wood, from Your Life.