# I hate people who speak in clichés
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 16, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106 "2012-05-16T15:23:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/1 "2012-05-16T15:23:19Z")
Well, hate’s too strong of a word but, really?
“It’s all good.”
“No worries.”
Shaddap!
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/2 "2012-05-16T15:27:05Z")
You’re not from around these here parts are you?
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/3 "2012-05-16T15:27:37Z")
I know, right?
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/4 "2012-05-16T15:28:09Z")
Cliches are the hammers and nails of conversation. They keep everything together. You’ll just have to live with some, I’m afraid.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/5 "2012-05-16T15:29:14Z")
But she’s sitting in the next cubicle. I may have to detonate something.
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/6 "2012-05-16T16:28:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Well, hate’s too strong of a word but, really?
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> “It’s all good.”
> “No worries.”
> Shaddap!
I don’t think those are clichés, exactly. They’re phrases that have become particles, losing their semantic content to become cogs in the machinery of polite discourse. Functionally, they serve the same sort of role as phrases like “How are you?” and “My pleasure.”–not to convey literal meaning, but as markers that facilitate conversation. These have no doubt arisen because they convey a slightly different mood than older particles that are near equivalents (like “You’re welcome.”).
If you find these particular particles grating, I can hardly fault you, but it’s not because they’re clichés…which are often annoying for entirely different reasons.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/7 "2012-05-16T16:30:28Z")
At the end of the day, it’ll all come out in the wash. Be safe.
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### Author:  [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/8 "2012-05-16T16:33:16Z")
People who speak in clichés just aren’t thinking out of the box.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/9 "2012-05-16T16:35:39Z")
I used to use clichés left, right and centre, but I’ve taken the bull by the horns and now I avoid them like the plague.
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/10 "2012-05-16T16:39:45Z")
It is what it is.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/11 "2012-05-16T17:13:06Z")
I had a dream once, after several conversations about my difficulty with small talk. In the dream people didn’t speak when they met. They rubbed shoulders (and upper arms) in passing, then turned and rubbed the opposite shoulders. I woke up in the middle of it with the conviction that small talk functioned like dogs sniffing each other’s butts. It wasn’t the words that were important, it was the familiar format that put people at ease. And being at ease was a good thing.
So when you hear cliches from the next cubicle, just imagine that she’s sniffing a dog’s butt.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/12 "2012-05-16T17:20:13Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> …So when you hear cliches from the next cubicle, just imagine that she’s sniffing a dog’s butt.
Yeah thanks. And now I won’t be able to stop laughing at her. 😃
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/13 "2012-05-16T17:20:23Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> So when you hear cliches from the next cubicle, just imagine that she’s sniffing a dog’s butt.
I’ll be in my bunk.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/14 "2012-05-16T17:29:58Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> So when you hear cliches from the next cubicle, just imagine that she’s sniffing a dog’s butt.
I told you! She was fixing the hem of my shorts!
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/15 "2012-05-16T18:07:29Z")
How many years before “fuck” in its many forms is regarded as nothing but a cliche’?
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### Author:  [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/16 "2012-05-16T18:21:20Z")
> [@Zeldar](#):
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> How many years before “fuck” in its many forms is regarded as nothing but a cliche’?
F is the one magical word: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhh7Iu76yUA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhh7Iu76yUA)
“Fuck” doesn’t seem the kind of word that’s likely to be a cliché. Can’t quite put my finger on what makes a cliché, Clichés seem to mainly be short sentences that express an idea in an often overly simplified way.
“Fuck” is usually quite good at expressing an emotion to an idea.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/17 "2012-05-16T18:23:05Z")
Gah! She just told me “it’s all good” again.
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### Author:  [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/18 "2012-05-16T18:50:23Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Gah! She just told me “it’s all good” again.
I suggest gasoline and a match.
Git R done
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### Author:  [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/19 "2012-05-16T18:50:52Z")
If “it’s all good” and “no worries” are cliches, then so are “it’s ok”, “no problem”, and “don’t worry”. So the only non-cliched response would be something like “What has recently transpired an/or been said does not cause distress to me or others.” However that response should not be repeated lest it become a cliche.
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-people-who-speak-in-cliches/622106/20 "2012-05-16T19:03:41Z")
> [@Bootis](#):
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> “no problem”
“It is a problem because \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.”
My counter-cliche. 😃
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