[Mgs] Mixed Metaphors

[Max Heim]

Assuming weasels ARE slick (and that is the point of the figure of speech,
obviously), how is that a mixed metaphor?

Although I suspect that the original expression was "slick as a whistle"
(also obscure but known from literature of the previous century). "Weasel"
is funnier, however; as proven by the response.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 11/12/12 12:20 PM, Eric Houkal at erictw1 at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> I just know they're hard to catch
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/12/12, schooler <schoolerw at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: schooler <schoolerw at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Mgs] Mixed Metaphors
> To: mgs at autox.team.net
> Date: Monday, November 12, 2012, 2:13 PM
> 
> 
> Seen on my copy of the latest digest, in a discussion about SU carb
> rebuilding:  "...the jets are centered and the pistons slide slick as a
> weasel."  Oh my.  Just how slick IS a weasel?  And how is this measured -
> with or without oil?
> 
> I love mixed metaphors!