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单词 to mix your metaphors
释义
to mix your metaphors
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If you mix your metaphors, you use two different metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.
To mix metaphors, she's stabbed him in the back and he's shot himself in the foot.
Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
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