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Post by Red Parrot on Jul 8, 2009 19:26:53 GMT
clichés, do they rock your boat, or you wouldn't touch them with a bargepole?
You wouldn't use a cliché for all the tea in china, and avoid them like the plague?
No pulling punches, tell it like it is. 
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Post by trubble on Jul 10, 2009 11:34:09 GMT
Yes, they make for dullish reading, but I like and dislike them at the same time.
They are cliches because they are so bloody good. That's the shame.
Try to write better descriptions than the following cliches that I nicked off the net, it's hard:
all walks of life
leaps and bounds
behind the eight ball
leave no stone unturned
bitter end
lock, stock, and barrel
calm before the storm
long arm of the law
checkered career
march of history
chomping at the bit
never a dull moment
cool as a cucumber
nipped in the bud
cry over spilled milk
patience of Job
fall on deaf ears
paying the piper
from time immemorial
sands of time
give the devil his due
selling like hot cakes
hook, line, and sinker
stick out like a sore thumb
by hook or crook
whirlwind tour
in the nick of time
winds of change
in the same boat
writing on the wall
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Post by trubble on Jul 10, 2009 11:36:43 GMT
One of the things I like about Elvis Costello is the way he writes his lyrics to begin as a cliche but twist at the end into something else.
Although it does mean that I sometimes sing the cliche.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 19, 2009 18:09:59 GMT
Peter Hammill does that as well.
Orwell has some great pieces about cliches - he was trying to find out what a jackboot is but could only get as far as understanding that a jackboot is something you put on when you want to behave tyrannically.
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