Mixed metaphors

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  • Nicholas Carey
    Flâneur • Seattle
    • Feb 2001
    • 20333

    Mixed metaphors

    Mixed metaphors. Or at least, righteously misunderstood ones.

    “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction,” Goebbels said as the Nazis rose to power—one of those quotes that sound apocryphal but are not.​
    — Adam Gopnik
  • LeeG
    Senior Member
    • May 2002
    • 72781

    #2
    Re: Mixed metaphors

    That is tragicomedy.

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    • Chip-skiff
      Wolves Without Borders
      • Jan 2008
      • 22764

      #3
      Re: Mixed metaphors

      Let 'em secede. That would knock Ted Cruz out of the race. Without all the federal tax breaks and subsidies, Texas would go broke.

      Maybe they could get by for a while stealing from one another.

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