
but the most amusing metaphor I've read this week comes from the World Gold Council, via a Portuguese news website:
The WGC stresses the obvious point that money (euros) “is abstract – numbers on a computer screen. By contrast, gold is concrete.”
It's got all the charm of a mixed metaphor, except it isn't mixed.
( , Sat 5 Jan 2013, 17:52, archived)

I've never heard it used in that context before. I've heard of breaking the ice at parties, thanks to Monty Python.
( , Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:09, archived)

always goes down well at a party when showing of your gash
( , Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:11, archived)

and then you catch your foot in the flaking concrete path and trip over the wall, falling straight into the mouth of the shark waiting below
( , Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:08, archived)