Celebrating when people make dog’s dinners out of metaphors and wind up wishing the cat had got their tongues
I’ve always had a soft spot for mixed metaphors. As everyone who does a crossword knows, a metaphor describes an object, idea or action in a way that isn’t literally true but helps explain it in more concrete terms.is not just a genius Kerry footballer, he’s a machine”. We know that, literally speaking, young Mr Clifford is not a machine.A mixed metaphor, on the other hand, makes incongruous comparisons and is usually unintentional. Then metaphors are jumbled illogically, or mixed.
He is also believed to be the father of “Irish bull”, referring to a ludicrous and absurd statement that is generally unrecognised by its author as such. Sir Boyle Roche himself provided the perfect example when he asked: “Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?”
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