Cliches Gone Ary
I do not like cliches in news copy or any other writing.
I do like it when someone butchers a cliche, either on purpose or by mistake. That’s funny.
We had a KTBS photographer who was the best at accidentally crafting entertaining cliches. Two of my favs: “He was running around like a chicken with his nose cut off.” And, “She was driving like a bat out of a cave.”
A friend of mine from another country once told me I was comparing apples to pears.
Your comments on cliches?
June 4th, 2008 at 9:50 am
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them look at it.
A penny saved is a penny kept.
Don’t look a gift horse in the butt.
You’re barking up the wrong bush.
You can’t have your cake and not look at it.
Piece of pie.
Easy as cake.
Snug as a bug in carpet.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:22 am
For as it is written, the last shall be first and the geeks shall inherit the earth.
It’s terrible, but I’m still going to drink it.
Talk softly and carry a big stick.
A round hole in a square peg.
It’s better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Don’t put all your eggs in two closets.
Everything’s coming up clover.
They’re are like two peas on a plate.
Two’s company, three’s a three way.
We’ll cross that bridge after we have driven through it.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Don’t do today what you can put off till next week.
Ignore the process till it breaks.
Back @$$wards
Water bubbles cause ripples to.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
A teaspoon of sugar keeps the doctor away.
It’s as American as pizza pie.
Do unto others before they do unto you.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
a man who wont cheat for a poke, don’t much want one.
gus mccray
lonesome dove
June 4th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread
Change is inevitable….except from vending machines
June 4th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The time for action is past. Now is the time for senseless bickering.
Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.
He was tried in absentia, and hanged in effigy, but I can’t find either of them on the map.
Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
I’ve found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.
—-Ashleigh Brilliant
June 4th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
rt, you know you wrote that last one!
June 4th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
It’s not brain science
It’s not rocket surgery
We’ll burn that bridge when we get there
June 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Why do they always say “totally destroyed.” If it’s destroyed, isn’t it toatlly gone?
June 4th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Is “tired old cliche” one?
June 4th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Just the other day I came across a girl who said she’ll cry “at the touch of a hat.”
I also enjoyed my mom’s friend who was “bleeding like a stuffed pig.”
June 4th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I don’t have cliches, but have collected some good old Cowboy wisdom sayings like, “If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin.”
“never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.”
and “never start an argument at the dinner table. The least hungry person always wins.”
More to come….
June 4th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
A bird in hand is worth two and a bush.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
“Follow the distructions!” My dad always said that..but is it a cliche?
My mom always said of a confused person; “He doesn’t know whether to wind his watch or take a p*ss.”
June 6th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Going to see a horse about a man