[Mgs] Mixed Metaphors

[Barrie Robinson]

Any connection with (church music in background) "weasel overcome....."?


At 12:45 PM 11/12/2012 -0800, Max Heim wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>
>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!
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Regards

Barrie
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