I just handed a project to someone and said “I’ll need you to be ready to hit the ground running on this when it comes back from the test-solver next Tuesday.”
:smack:
I hate using cliches.
I avoid cliches like the plague.
Really? I think they’re the best thing since sliced bread.
How come cliche and niche don’t rhyme?
They don’t??
I once had a boss send out an email entitled “It’s now time for the spank-the-monkey test” to the entire company.
I don’t think he had a problem using cliches, but I’m also quite positive he didn’t know just what that cliche meant. I think he thought it referred to some kind of intense software testing phase. I’m also fairly sure that most of the male team members avoided the bathrooms while he was in there for the next couple months, just in case he did know what the cliche meant.
Well, like, I try to avoid clichces, 'cause, well, they’re annoying like and then you’re like ‘stop doing that’ and I’m like “sorry!”
I used to talk like that. Still do occasionally. But I’m getting better.
Not that I know of. Of course, your mileage may vary. But then, that’s what makes a horse race. You learn something new every day. Pay it forward.
As a parent, I was horrified to hear myself using “because I said so” with my kids.
Does that count?
I think we need to eliminate cliches.
Let’s run that idea up the flagpole, and see who salutes it.
I said “That’d be more fun than a barrel of monkeys” once to my boss, who grew up in China, and had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Watching him give me an almost irritated look and saunter off with a furrowed brow was worth being my corniest, I can tell you.
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. . .
I agree, they’re old hat, aren’t they?
A friend and I take cliches and re-word them. For example, instead of “cut the mustard” we say “slice the ketchup.” Dumb, I know, but it keeps conversations fresh and interesting.
A few others I am guilty of using recently:
…like a bat out of hell.
Give him an inch and he’ll take you a mile.
They’re living on Easy Street.
I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole!
Sometimes I try to mix n’ match my clichés.
“That’s the way the kitchen sinks” or “Hey, man, whatever sinks your kitchen” can be good for an :dubious: from somebody.
Also proverbs. “Well as they say, A stich in time saves stiches.” “An ounce of prevention is worth about tree fitty($3.50).”
Cliches are bad. You have to keep it original.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, you know.
I once told a nephew “My gosh, the last time I saw you, you were only this ta… did I say that!?”
What I really hate is when I use a cliche I don’t even like.
In a meeting once, I said, “I think we’re putting the cart before the horse.” Ugh.
Weell!!
At least you didn’t choose sides by saying Eenie, meenie, minie, mo…
So I guess you could say that that cliche was *the straw that broke the camel’s back * for you?
I don’t use cliches, but I don’t look down on people who use cliches. After all, what goes around comes around.