Tag: cliches

  • New takes on old phrases

    Try using some of these in a business meeting, or with a customer this week.

    1. Shit or get off the Pope
    2. It’s not pocket science
    3. It is what it was
    4. A jack of all maids
    5. Like white on color
    6. Familiarity breeds mice
    7. Don’t rock the goat
    8. The show must grow lawns
    9. Caught with his pants brown
    10. Sharp as a stack
  • Woody Allen Style Cliché Contest

    Remember how Woody Allen would always mix together clichés in his movies? Me too. To honor that concept, I am having a contest for the best mixed cliché, Woody Allen style. Winner (as judged by you) will get an original cartoon by me mailed to them and the winner gets to pick the subject matter. Anything goes.

    Example: “A stitch in time uh… saved nine mothers from uh, inventing a really bad sewing machine.”