Clichés Gifts

"That which doesn't kill you might give you stomach trouble."

Countervailing Clichés.

"I don't mind not being acknowledged in the middle of the room, but I'm worried I can't remember why I came in here."

"I suppose there'll be no living with him now."

"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?'

"Can't we ride off in another direction?"

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

The Devil's in the detail!

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

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

Good stripper cop / Bad stripper cop

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

'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?"

Steve found himself on his travels.

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

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

"If all you have is a whatchamacallit then every problem looks like a thingamajig."

'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.'

Leopards do change their spots

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

'Lookout, here comes another boatload of cartoonists.'

'I'd like to push the envelope, go the extra mile, and think outside the box to facilitate a win-win solution to the over-utilization of buzzwords.'

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'

"There are far too many balls in your court, Brintner!"

'Reserved' (presumably for little miss muffet)

"There is such a thing as a free lunch-it just tastes bad."

'Hmmm, the 27th you say... Yes, I'm away that day, so I guess it's OK for you to play...'

"Always a bridesmaid..."

A panhandler with a sign that reads "I'll never work in this town again!".

Jeffrey N.: The Guy who managed to get the lead out of his pants, but they were still the wrong pants.

"Take us to your feeder."

Clancy: Hard Work Never Killed Anybody