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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. mixed metaphors: Merriam-Webster
  2. mixed metaphors: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mixed metaphors: Vocabulary.com
  4. mixed metaphors: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. mixed metaphors: Wiktionary
  6. Mixed metaphors: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Mixed metaphors: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mixed metaphors: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mixed metaphors: Encyclopedia

(Note: See mixed_metaphor as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mixed metaphor)

noun:  (linguistics) An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.
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