Flaw in the Ointment

A Fox News analyst commenting on the downside of altering the NYCD "stop and frisk" policy: "Well there is a flaw in the ointment."

"If we're going to keep her from getting upset, we'll need to use a different tact." Spoken by a character on NCIS Los Angeles

Cliff Robertson to his daughter in the film Assignment Berlin: "An ungrateful child is sharper than a thankless toooth. That's Shakespeare."

Recently overheard at a meeting...

...and makes perfect 'malaphor' sense. 
"It's going to be difficult for that bridge to be gapped."

A member of our winter tennis league after hitting an impossible shot: "Boy, I really pulled a monkey out of the barrel." A triple play: rabbit out of a hat, fish in a barrel, making a monkey out of your opponent.

CBS sportscaster describing a basketball player's stellar performance: "It was through the charts." He must have meant "off the roof."

John Stossel, thanking Ann Coulter for debating a panel of liberal college students: "I admire you for going into the lion's nest." Or a den of vipers or a nest of thieves?