Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — Mixed Metaphors. [ARTICLE]

Mixed Metaphors.

The British house of commons is never so amused as when a member Is betrayed, in his enthusiasm, into a mixed metaphor. Mr. Balfour, some time ago, spoke of “an empty theater of unsympathetic auditors," while Lord Curzon remarked that “though not out of the wood, we have a good ship.” Sir William Hart Dyke bas told how Mr. Lowther "had caught a big fish in his net, and went to the top of the tree for it,” while a financial minister assured the commons that “the steps of the government should go hand in hand with the interests of the manufacturer." And it was in the lords that the government was warned that “the constitutional rights of the people were being trampled upon by the mailed hand of authority.” ,