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Originally Posted by Thom*
@BetterRead - "Pushing the envelope a bridge too far." I've never heard it put like that, but it makes me laugh too. IDK, would you call that a mixed metaphor?
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Some might, but I probably wouldn't, as there is no inconsistency between the envelope and bridge. But I don't know of a specific term for joining two coherent metaphors in a way that makes sense, a rhetorician might know of one. Or maybe there isn't one - in which case I declare such things to be - brisms
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