Could you reveal the original metaphor/phrase and how it was mixed/twisted ? And I am serious. I promise to keep a short wick and not to take a cake.

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>>>>His short wick would have extinguished as soon as he hit the water with his soggy cake.
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>>As I said, look at the mixed metaphors in Dragan's statement.
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>I wouldn't call this "mixed metaphors". I'm just twisting and trying the familiar phrases. And, ahem, along the way - if we say "do A and B", we can also say "do B and A", assuming that if there was some particular order about them, we'd say "do A, then B". So... "try and do x" is equivalent to "do x and try"... which will be an interesting exercise, which I will do and try from time to time.