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Enough with the cliches
#31
RE: Enough with the cliches
(October 18, 2021 at 12:27 pm)Ten Wrote: How do you guys feel about altering cliches so that they're not quite the cliche anymore?

Like, "I just put 2 and 2 together" instead becomes "I just put 3 and 7 together" or insert relevant numbers to come to a total of numbers actually being discussed.

"Selling like hotcakes" = "Selling like prescription opioids"

"Avoid like the plague" = "Avoid like a Trump rally"

"Let your hair down" = "Let your ass hang out"

Is it too confusing?

Does the pope shit in the woods?
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#32
RE: Enough with the cliches
(October 18, 2021 at 12:36 pm)Angrboda Wrote:
(October 18, 2021 at 12:27 pm)Ten Wrote: How do you guys feel about altering cliches so that they're not quite the cliche anymore?

Like, "I just put 2 and 2 together" instead becomes "I just put 3 and 7 together" or insert relevant numbers to come to a total of numbers actually being discussed.

"Selling like hotcakes" = "Selling like prescription opioids"

"Avoid like the plague" = "Avoid like a Trump rally"

"Let your hair down" = "Let your ass hang out"

Is it too confusing?

Does the pope shit in the woods?

"Do the Chicago Bears lose to the Packers?" Bears, Pope. Yea it was a stretch.
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#33
RE: Enough with the cliches
At work.

"The great bulks of the interstellar ships hung in the air exactly like bricks don't." Late Douglas Adams.


While not actually a great fan of Mr Adam's works I do find his way with 'Turns of phrase' to be unique and memorable on the whole.
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#34
RE: Enough with the cliches
You seen one, you seen 'em all.
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#35
RE: Enough with the cliches
I had to share this true thing.

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#36
RE: Enough with the cliches
(October 18, 2021 at 9:32 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.

"The great bulks of the interstellar ships hung in the air exactly like bricks don't."    Late Douglas Adams.


  While not actually a great fan of Mr Adam's works I do find his way with 'Turns of phrase' to be unique and memorable on the whole.

 Yair.

One I remember I think comes from Slartibartfast " hurry or you'll be late, as in the late Arthur Dent" , not a cliche but a nice turn of phrase.

We have lot in Oz, but I can only remember three at the moment  "Busy? I'm flat out like a lizard drinking"   and "I feel lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut"  and " I haven't laughed so hard since ma got tits caught in't mangle" (I think that one might be British. ' A mangle' was a manual clothes ringer, so getting to about 100 years old)

Because English is a living language, much of the vernacular just fades away with time. Have you ever heard the phrase "as rich as Crassus?" Neither  have I, but I'll bet it was common for a long time in ancient Rome, possibly making it into English". Marcus Crassus was the richest man in Rome. I've read that in real terms he was the richest man who ever lived. I suspect not including today's IT billionaires. He was the bloke who wiped out Spartacus and his army.

Slang too.  The late Steve Irwin made me cringe with his 'crikey' and his crass behaviour. Apart  from him, I can't remember when I last heard that. Probably some time in the 1950's. Same goes for "cobber". However, 'mate' remains omnipresent. (this word has no single meaning in formal English)


Below Steve, his baby and the crocodile. The bloke was a drongo. (another archaic slang term, meaning fool)

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#37
RE: Enough with the cliches
(October 23, 2021 at 5:04 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: Marcus Crassus was the richest man in Rome. I've read that in real terms he was the richest man who ever lived. I suspect not including today's IT billionaires. He was the bloke who wiped out Spartacus and his army.

Nah he was richer. The scam artists Musk and Zuckerberg still cry themselves to sleep over not being as rich as him.

Oh, on cliche's "there were more people killed abroad in that field, than were killed in India" is one. At least these ways it is.
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#38
RE: Enough with the cliches
I'm gonna pop a cap in your ass.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#39
RE: Enough with the cliches
(October 23, 2021 at 9:53 pm)brewer Wrote: I'm gonna pop a cap in your ass.

Here in sunny California, it's "...bust a cap on yo ass, mafucka...".  Razz
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#40
RE: Enough with the cliches
At work.

"These fekkers wouldn't need condoms if they ran a brothel. They couldn't oganize a fek in one."

Me exasperated at most managerial decisions over the years.
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