Welcome to November 3rd, and today is…
Cliché Day
So let me bring you up to speed. Today is Cliché day, but I’m
not sure how we can all get on the same page for this one. Just how do you
celebrate a cliché and who had that light bulb moment and came up with cliché
day anyway? Either way, perhaps we should take five and celebrate everything
that's obvious, predictable, overused and derivative. Well, let’s face it,
there’s nothing new under the sun.
Clichés, we all use them, slipping them into our otherwise
original and palatable language without anyone really noticing. To be honest, I
quite like them. What goes around comes around and clichés are and do just that;
some of them for hundreds of years. Perhaps we should avoid those ones like the
plague. Sometimes clichés are threatening; other times words of seeming wisdom
and occasionally they are poetic.
And with that thought…
Ode de Cliché
Time will tell
Opposites attract
Haste makes waste
On the right track
As old as the hills
The quiet before the storm
As brave as a lion
All for one, and one for all
Time heals all wounds
Not all that glitters is gold
Not a care in the world
Left out in the cold
All’s well that ends well
The past is the past
It lasted an eternity
Playing loose and fast
Cat got your tongue
Tail between your legs
Don’t get your knickers in a twist
Frightened to death
The writings on the wall
Nobody’s all bad
A shiver down my spine
I’ll swing for you my lad
All is fair in love and war
No better cure than laughter
It’s coming down in stair rods
They lived happily ever after
Neil Barrett on FB
ReplyDeleteNice to see your thinking outside the box.
Andrew Height
DeleteNow you're cooking with gas.
Paul Whitehouse on FB
ReplyDeleteMy Most hated:
'No tricks just treats'- Halloween advertising strap lines
'Low and slow' -massively overused phrase to describe American style barbecue cooking
'I'm going to grow old DISgracefully' -no you're not your just spouting a cliche'
Andrew Height
DeleteLet's run it up the flagpole Paul.
Pete Bevins on FB
ReplyDeleteSlightly off topic but I hate it when people say the proof is in the pudding no it fucking isn't
Andrew Height
DeleteTotally on topic. Classic cliche Pete.
Pete Bevins
DeleteMixing them up is good, sometimes you're like a bear with a sore thumb Andy
Andrew Height
DeleteHa ha and you don't know your arse from your canoe Pete.
Neil Barrett on FB
ReplyDeleteOut of the frying pan into the pudding
Andrew Height
A picture paints louder than words.
Neil Barrett
What goes around comes in a nut shell
Andrew Height
Don't count your chickens in one basket.
Andrew Height
It's better to have loved and lost than crying over spilled milk.
Neil Barrett
Yer big girls brass.
Andrew Height
It takes one to know a book by its cover
Tim Preston on FB
ReplyDelete"hard work" - I got where I am today by hard work - it makes me want to find out where they live and jump into the bathroom while they're having a bath and shout "Got you - you're not working hard now are you!!!" - also the government use it a lot. I think that it's because it has no meaning and people use it to put other people down
Kevin Parrott on FB
ReplyDeleteA tragic story.........
A few years ago a cinema in Bilbao was packed with people watching the latest blockbuster movie.
The management had padlocked all but one of the doors as folks were entering the cinema without paying.
There was a terrible fire and many perished......
Due to the fact they tried to get too many Basques in one exit.
Maggie Patzuk
ReplyDeleteWhat's that in the road . . . a head?
Andrew Height
DeleteI am loving that Maggie.
Nick Jennings on FB
ReplyDeleteAt the end of the day, it's nice to know it's in your radar Mr H. Yep, I'm back, like the bad penny I am. So put on ya gladrags or just put me back in my box wink emoticon