I thought it would be fun to write a community story built on cliches (so we can get all of the cliches out of our systems and remember what not to do!)
Here’s the first line:
Michael always thought his life was going to be like a bowl full of cherries until that day…
Contribute one or more lines to this story here.
What are your favorite cliches? Post them here in the comments section (it’s good to get them out.)
-Maria Schneider
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Anyone else tired of these:
Been there, done that.
Pulled himself up by his bootstraps
The wrong side of the tracks
I have a thing or two to say on that. Besides, “it was a dark and stormy night” (which is actually kind of fun), the one that just grates on me is, “we’ll just have to do more with less”. It should be pretty obvious to everyone by now that we end up doing less with less. Sorry, didn’t mean to rain on your parade ;) but I just found out that two people close to me will be furloughed for five days. Need I say newspapers are involved? Oh well, just so much water under the bridge.
~jon
I used to LOVE cliches. I mean, I really loved them. I used them a lot — on purpose. I thought they were the best thing since sliced bread. It wasn’t until I read that Stephen King said you should avoid them like the plague that I started to sit up and take notice.