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Writing some marketing text recently, I used the "best of the best" phrase, and then of course hated it.
I came to the realization that it would be really useful to have a "cliche" thesaurus, where you could substitute similar phrases, either for real or as a way to get the creative juices going.
bakin', bakin', bakin' ... bakin', bakin', bakin' ... raw dough
http://www.ugc.edu..../rgcnews/lu-en.html
[FarmerJohn, Mar 04 2005]
The Lion's Share
http://www.aesopsfa...leID=3&searchterms=
Not, as most references seem to imply as simply denoting the largest part of something, but in fact meaning all of something. [Ian Tindale, Mar 05 2005]
It's a slam dunk
http://www.cnn.com/...am.dunks/index.html
[theircompetitor, Nov 08 2005]
(?) ClicheSite
http:/www.clichesite.com
HUGE list of 'em! [TahuNuva, Jan 04 2008]
(?) Leveraged is getting too much leverage
http://www.google.c...2&btnG=Search&meta=
Stand by for bullshit [Ling, Jan 04 2008]
FreeDictionary Idioms
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/
Not all cliches are in here of course. [ooooooooo, Jan 05 2008]
Amazon: Cliche Dictionaries
http://www.amazon.c...ie=UTF8&node=929530
Since there are so many of them, I figured I'd just give you the category... [jutta, Jan 05 2008]
[link]
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World class idea, the HB really is a true centre of excellence in the development of best-of-breed notions. |
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I once worked with a guy who spoke entirely in clichés, though he would often twist them to keep them fresh. As all the big shots did the same, my coworker’s career took a nosedive upwards. |
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An idea whose time has come. A window of opportunity, realising we can't rely on organic growth, benchmarking to world's best practice. It's now or never, strike while the iron is hot. Get it to market early. |
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"We're going to be maintaining our organic headcount growth rate of two."
I didn't know what it meant either but soon afterwards they sacked everyone. |
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Would there be an accompanying
dictionary too, hopefully explaining
what these encapsulated and commonly
recognised units of speech actually
mean (if anything)? Just so's you could
strive for accuracy. One that always gets
me (but only since I found out the true
story very recently) is the oftmisused
phrase "The Lion's Share". |
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I found a long list of clichés, and what’s really odd is that you can string them along in the order they appear, adding a word or phrase here and there, and they seem to make perfect sense:
I’m staring off into space, and everything's hunky dory. Except the sheriff is here, and it’s a mexican standoff. Hey, Hanky Panky, I say. And you know, he's scared of his own shadow. He’s a scaredy-cat. I turn to my men. “Let's forge ahead, shall we?” And my babe is there too, smiling. “What's cookin' good lookin'?" I say. “We could put two and two together,” she says. “Oh, woe is me,” says the sheriff, looking at all of us. There’s so many of us, he can't see the forest for the trees; he’s worried; his trigger finger is hotter than a mouse in a wool sock. “Quit while you're ahead, I say, don’t be a white elephant.” “That baby runs like a scalded dog,” he replies, which makes about as much sense as what I just said, but I figure imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. |
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All your cliche are belong to us. |
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The worst, most hideous, wrong sounding, hairs up on the back of the neck, teeth grinding, abominal creations of the human mind is "leverage".
If you ever want to turn me off then just use that word in any other place except a maintenance manual. |
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Ah, if we need to forcibly extract information from Ling, we now have the leverage we need. |
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Leverage is best practice. It adds value and impacts the bottom line. |
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<presses power button>
Click. |
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Whatever leverage is, it is not a verb. |
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My cutlass is leveraged to the hilt. |
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Cliche is such an overused word... |
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Call it what you want, a rose by any other name smells as sweet. But all that glitters is not gold. Some are all talk and no action. You know what I mean, cliches. Stereotypes, overused metaphors, and all that jazz. They're as dense as a London fog. They're as annoying as all get out. But I suppose all's fair in love and war. And as luck would have it, I'm at the end of my rope. these things are as useful as a lead balloon! Theyre all over, as far as the eye can see! Anyhoo, What I mean is, I'm fighting back. I'm armed to the teeth, and I'm ready to rumble. I am at my wit's end, and I'm about to open a can of whoop-@$$. I'm gonna catch 'em off guard, they won't know what hit 'em. It'll be child's play, like taking candy from a baby. Piece of cake. Yeah, I've got a bone to pick. An axe to grind. So, the clock is ticking. I'm gonna clean their clock. I'm gonna knock their block off. Come hell or high water, I'm gonna crack down on this thing. It's do or die. The time is now. I won't look back. It's now or never. And we all know the ends justify the means. So who's with me? |
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Found 'em at clichesite.com [link] |
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[ling] - is it 'levv-er-ige' you object to or the correctly pronounced 'lee-ver-age'? |
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It doesn't matter how you say it. Actually, the worst is "leveraged". |
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See link for typical uses which switch on my bullshit detector. |
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Sounds like a dictionary of idioms to me. See link. Many cliches are idioms, and most idioms are cliches. I guess there is scope for extending a dictionary of idioms with non-idiomatic cliches, such as "centre of excellence" and "best practice". It would be useful to have a count of how many times certain phrases are used in a variety of corpuses. |
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I would suggest that the use of a small amount of money or credit, used wisely, can result in a disproportionate return on initial investment, through leverage. |
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[Ling], it's not all maintenance. It's about obtaining a result that is magnified by the length of the lever or the ratio of initial difference to eventual result. |
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//disproportionate return on initial
investment, through leverage. // Yes,
that usage of "leverage" is acceptable even
in England. But that is different from
"leveraging something", much as
"bunnage" is different from "bunnaging"
and, indeed "sewage" from "sewing". |
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[MB] //Sewage from sewing// hahaha, that was unexpected. |
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[+] by synergistically leveraging IP nexuses, we can positively affect shareholder value |
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translation: divide and conquer, we'll be rich! |
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Anyhoo, an authority on which cliches are the most tired would definitely be very useful. |
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I think there has been some confusion here between clichés, jargon and metaphors. |
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If you could get this published, it would
sell like hot cakes. |
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Yes, I'd hate to see you underleveraging your potential. (Google underleveraging) |
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I would but it would only depress me. |
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