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In my advanced legal research and writing class, we've spent this week going over grammar and style. We've been reading bad essays and correcting them. I tend to pick out problems other than what the professor wants us to focus on.

I'll say what I find wrong, and the professor will say, "Be that as it may, focus on correcting the problem we've been talking about."

Last night, one of the sentences included the phrase "the Senate lies down in the face of a mounting problem."

My comment was that "lies down in the face" is the worst mixed metaphor of all time - especially in a sentence with "mounting" in it.