Cliché Critic Gifts

Cliche Workshop, "Who wants to get the ball rolling?"

'It's not you it's me not liking you.'

"O.K., but change 'Her tawny body glistened beneath the azure sky' to 'National problems demand national solutions.' "

'It was a dark and stormy night. Also, there was a Catch-22.'

"Will you get this guy outta here! If I hear 'real life ain't a Hallmark movie' one more time..."

"So this is what you do when I pretend to leave, then come back unexpectedly in five minutes."

At Death's Door

"So where's all the fun? I thought things would be different and exciting! But nothing has changed! I guess that 'blondes have more fun' line applies only to girls."

More cliches are near.

"Thanks for your introductory speech at the conference. By the way, Hibblemeyer, it's 'hard-headed' businessman, not 'thick-headed'."

'This doesn't work as a heart-felt plea for world peace, but with some astute editing, it might be great on a greeting card.'

"Hello darling, what do you do for a living?"

'I've located the lost island of annoying texting clichés.'

'I always wanted to be a genre, but I'm worried I've become a cliche.'

Mystery Writing 101 - Mailbox: The butler did it, the gardener, the chauffeur.

'I am traveling by train in futureI hate Cliches.'

"He looks like death warmed up."

'You're home early? How could you be so cliche?'

Clancy: Hard Work Never Killed Anybody

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

"The cat told me to eat your homework."

'Let's start out with cliches and pithy slogans - and work our way up to wisdom ...OK?'

"Repeat after me: We are delivering the proactive core value promises and rolling out our real time best practice action plan going forward ..."

Countervailing Clichés.

Snowyphus

The Devil's in the detail!

'Here's the good news. 'Happy camper' and 'are we having fun yet' have been added to the official list of banned cliches.'

"No, I don't believe youth is wasted on the young. I believe money is."

Good stripper cop / Bad stripper cop

'It's negative attention ... as long as you keep asking why, they'll keep on doing it.'

"Which should we go see: the straight romantic comedy where the heroine's best friend is a gay man, or the gay romantic comedy where the hero's best friend is a straight woman?"

Leopards do change their spots

'Lookout, here comes another boatload of cartoonists.'

"Milton Woolburg, founder of traditions, legends, and general flimlam."

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'