1, I have mixed metaphors for all occasions.

2, Like the Curate's Egg, though, not everything in this particular garden is brambles, to mix metaphors.

3, Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.

4, Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.

5, "The new job has allowed her to spread her wings and really blossom, " is a mixed metaphor.

6, One of my favourite awards every year is for the mixed metaphor.