I've been tracking mixed metaphors for years. Here's an example: "take a shot in the dark" is a combination of "a stab in the dark" and "take a shot at it." As you might guess, George W. has a knack for mixing metaphors.
| Top Bushisms in the Category of: Mixed Metaphors | |
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I've been tracking mixed metaphors for years. Here's an example: "take a shot in the dark" is a combination of "a stab in the dark" and "take a shot at it." As you might guess, George W. has a knack for mixing metaphors. |
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| 1. | "Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Sept. 17, 2004 | ||
| 2. | "This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end." - George W. Bush, April 10, 2001 | ||
| 3. | "The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." - George W. Bush, on Sen. John McCain, speaking to reporters in Florence, SC, Feb. 17, 2000 | ||
| 4. | "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in TX, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." - George W. Bush, Nashville, TN, Sept. 17, 2002 [AUDIO] | ||
| 5. | "I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth." - George W. Bush, Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000 | ||
| 6. | "Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the post-Saddam Iraq the U.N. will definitely need to have a role. And that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of responsibility back." - George W. Bush, the Azores, Portugal, March 16, 2003 | ||
| 7. | "We ought to make the pie higher." - George W. Bush, South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000 [AUDIO] | ||
| 8. | "That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired." - George W. Bush, Westland, MI, Sept. 8, 2000 | ||
| 9. | "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." - George W. Bush, Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 [AUDIO] | ||
| 10. | "I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know." - George W. Bush, April 26, 2000 | ||
| 11. | "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - George W. Bush, Saginaw, MI, Sept. 29, 2000 [AUDIO] | ||
| 12. | "It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, April 28, 2005 [AUDIO] |
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