Cliches You Can Do Without

[Zomby Woof]

"Think outside the box."

"At the end of the day..."

Many more...


Yours?

[Richard Steele]

1. "I can do without..."

[Zomby Woof]

3. That was my intent

No point in having a thread about cliches without using one, if I may be so bold, at the end of the day.

[Richard Steele]

5. Yeah but I'm sleepy...

...so the only one that came to mind was the one
on the screen in front of me!

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. All of 'em

[Zomby Woof]

4. The whole kit 'n' kaboodle, eh?

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Yup

Cliches are for people who can't think of their own words.

[ContraBass Black]

7. That's about the size of it.

[Left Is Write]

27. The whole ball of wax?

[Zomby Woof]

41. The whole nine yards!

[Left Is Write]

44. The whole enchilada.

[shugah]

8. 'and he tore his shirt! how cliche!'

a couple:

"on the same page" - usually someone who wants to be 'on the same page' is not only not reading the same book, but is not even in the same library ;-)

"too much on my plate" - ha! i guess "your eyes were bigger than your stomach!!

however, my dearest ZombyWoof, at the end of the day, not only is "at the end of the day" not a cliche i can do without, it is one i actually use ... but only when i really mean it ;-)

[madeline_con]

9. Things of that ilk. n/t

[Random_Australian]

10. Have a guess. It involves crocodiles.

[TheBaldyMan]

11. You mean not all Aussies have big choppers ?

... that ain't a knife ... *swish* ...

[Random_Australian]

12. *sigh* we have to carry knives to fend off drop-bears, but crocs

are only in the top of Bazzaland. Therefore only about 80% of us know how to wrestle a croc.

[BikeWriter]

13. You think those are bad, don't go to Alaska! They have...

snowsnakes!:scared:

[CBHagman]

23. I hope you're not Irish too.

I have a supervisor at work who will respond to the mere mention of an Irish person (Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern, et al) with that asinine Lucky Charms leprechaun cereal routine. I've been listening to this crap for 11 years.

Something like that might be funny a single time when the jokester is in the third grade. When it comes from a middle-aged person in management in a small business, it's grotesque.

[slide to the left]

14. it is what it is

AHHHH. Managmentese.

[progmom]

15. "net net"

which often precedes "at the end of the day"

oh how i despise corporate speak.

"net net at the end of the day we plan to opportunistically grow the business." :puke:

[Blue-Jay]

16. "Booga booga booga."

That shit drives me nuts.

[MiniMandaRuth]

17. You're not the sharpest spoon in the drawer....

*Eyetwitch* Makes no sense at all and I want to kill everyone when I hear that....

[progmom]

18. who the heck says that?

:rofl:

[MiniMandaRuth]

24. People at school,

but the reason that it doesn't make any sense is that THEY'RE the people saying it to me, because they think I'm stupid.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-not.

[progmom]

25. well that's just plain dumb

:grr:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

63. I like to combine all those phrases into one giant

nonsensical saying: "Not the brightest knife in the sea."

[Jokerman]

19. Welcome to my world, n/t

[azmouse]

20. "Walk the walk, talk the talk."

"Run it up a flagpole."

[El Fuego]

48. And "Money talks, bullshit walks."

[kid a]

21. war on terra

[XemaSab]

22. I can do without misspelled cliches

:banghead:

[Blue-Jay]

26. That's rediculous!

[Liberal Veteran]

47. God...what a moran!

[LSdemocrat]

28. Something is the new something else

I.e. 40 is the new 30, pink is the new black

[kid a]

29. Six Of One, Half Dozen Of Another

I can never get it right

[kid a]

30. fool me once . . .Hows it go?

Is that even a cliche?

[calico1]

31. It is unless GWB uses it.

Then its just a bunch of mangled words that don't make sense.

I find most cliches annoying. Especially when its a trendy one, such as from a commercial, and everyone starts using it. Example--"Can you hear me now?" I have wanted to slap several people who used it. My opinion of people who use cliches constantly is they don't have much imagination or originality.

[Lisa]

32. "at this point in time" (n/t)

[trof]

33. "The fact of the matter is..."

Don't look now, but your pants are on fire.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

34. "Speak truth to power"

or is it power to truth?

[Telly Savalas]

50. I don't get that one either. Power isn't much of a listener.

[ContraBass Black]

56. Think Harry Taylor.

[maxsolomon]

35. "My only point is..."

no, that's only your FIRST POINT, bloviator!

[Obamarama]

36. "At this juncture..." "For all intents and purposes..."

[wain]

37. Been there, done that... I'm comfortable with that...

Get your ducks lined up...from the git-go...what goes around comes around...sounds like a plan...take it off line

riffs...downsizing...outsourcing or, as the say in english you're outa here!

from my Pentagon days - reeaal fine...outstanding...lifer...civilian

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[CatholicEdHead]

38. Your dog wants ______

fb- is the father
What could possibly go wrong?

[Blue-Jay]

59. Those are only Fark cliches.

You should get out more.

[Onlooker]

39. Push the envelope n/t

[salin]

40. 'nuff said'

okay not a cliche - but an internet phrase...

guessing that you won't be surprised :D

[Zomby Woof]

42. sho' nuff!

:P

[Twillig]

55. Who's The Master!?

[GalleryGod]

54. Just Sayin' .

:puke: :argh: :puke:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

64. My two cents

:D

[grace0418]

43. "going forward..."

I had a boss that used to say that. I think she thought it made her sound intelligent. Grrrr.

[Left Is Write]

45. Did you ever once ask her...

"As opposed to going backward?"

[grace0418]

51. My friend used to antagonize her endlessly and I do believe he said that

to her at one point. Gawd she was a pain in the ass.

[Liberal Veteran]

46. Any mangled cliches (for example: "for all intensive purposes"

and I swear to God I was five seconds away from slapping the living shit out of a woman I worked with who kept saying "prove it to the pudding".

[Zookeeper]

49. Let's be proactive...

and do some networking on my blackberry that my sister gifted to me. Maybe I'll regift it to her.

[ALago1]

52. I fucking hate the word "proactive"

As wisely stated on an ep of the Simpsons:

"Proactive", "Paradigm shift", aren't these just buzzwords dumb people use to appear smart?

[WeRQ4U]

53. Anything about giving 110%

That's just pure bullshit.

[pointblank]

57. "Puttin out fires"

As in: "Man, all I did at work today was put out fires"

I hate that.

:puke:

[GalleryGod]

58. Educated adults addressing other adults as "DUDE"

:puke: :argh: what are you trapped in an out of town production of "Dazed & Confused" ?

[Gold Metal Flake]

60. "I'm gonna split your fucking head with this axe"

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that one...

[gkdmaths]

61. conservatives.

well, I find them cliche and I certainly think the world could use a little time without them...

seriously though, 'carpe diem' really bugs me.

[Hardrada]

62. Stay the course. &

Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out (or variants thereof)

Robust anything

View with alarm, imminent peril & other State Dep't. Speak.