It's National Cliche Day......

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All I gotta say is you can't have your cake and eat it, too. But I heard from a friend of a friend that if it's not one thing, it's always something else. Let me tell you, he knows of what he speaks. I kid you not! The guy is smarter than King Solomon and richer than God. And, boy howdy, is he married to one tall drink of water. I mean, she's built like a brick house! And their kids? Like oil and water. One is smart as a whip and the other is dumber than a box of rocks.

C'ya!
 
Down on the farm

A little birdie told me to never put the cart before the horse. He also said to let sleeping dogs lie because you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But I let the cat out of the bag and all I was doing was beating a dead horse.

And you heard it from the horse's mouth.
 
Business Cliches

My friend and I wrote a whole paper on these. Here are some highlights that I can remember:

"There's gotta be some lead in the pencil"

"My boss threw me under the bus with that client"

"Sell the sizzle not the steak"

"Everyone got caught in the propwash on that one"

"Let's triangulate on that off-line"

"I wasn't top of game during that presentation"

"These program features are really the wood behind the arrow"

"She's got her game on"

"Now we're running with the big dogs"

"This is our go-to-market strategy"

"We believe in continuous improvement"

"We intend to drive down cost while bringing the customer higher value" (Gee, who would have thought that?)

"What is our value proposition?"

"Wazzup" (answering the phone when someone recognizes your calling number)

"This is when we realize that it takes time to turn a big ship around, while navigating difficult competitive waters"

"This is an exciting time for our business" (Every CEO/President speech has this line in it. Exciting? Excitement is you putting a new Aston Martin in my driveway as a Christmas bonus. After you have done that, we can talk about exciting.)

"We need to get back to our core business"

"Good business is where you find it" (I thought you could make a living off business you didn't find. Darn.)

"As your manager, you need to know that I work for you" (Great, I need some painting done on the side of my house, can you come over this weekend?)

"You need to take an active role in our corporate diversity training" (I believe in diversity. I get this urge to run through customer sites nude screaming "Long live the new flesh!", and I want special accomodations for my needs.)

"I need to know what's in your pipeline"

I could just go on and on and on..... :-)
 
Fractured Cliches, courtesy of my father:

"Well, that throws everything into a monkey wrench."
"After this gets done, we'll be skating on thin gravy."
"He tells me something in one morning, and out the other."
"You need to move out of the house. You're nothing but a milestone around my neck."
"FDR was the biggest war mongrel of them all."
"He still wets his bed behind his ears."
 
Employer Related!

Being thrown to the wolves.

I hate the bean counters and all their conferences and meetings of the minds, then, once hired, "I have you two days training in your position, don't you understand"

Steve
 
trashy republican cliche'(meaning lies)

- the Democrats are to blame for the "criminalization" of politics.

- our DEFICIT is Bill Clintons fault.

- purgery isn't a major offense. (in 2005, in 1998 apparently it was)

- tom delay is a victim.

- the liberal media skews the truth.

- I don't abuse drugs(lardass limbaugh)

- we are fair and balanced media.
 
Here's some other political cliches

Dan Rather: "The documents may be false, but the story is true!" (Buh bye Dan.)

Michael Moore: "The terrorists are freedom fighters!"

"No War for Oil!" (Now the pipelines from Iraq directly to US freighters full of free oil are exactly where now?)

"Bush Lied, People Died" (If he is such a great liar, why didn't he just have some "friends from Halliburton" plant some WMDs in Iraq and save the embarassment? I mean, he must be a hell of a liar to pull the war off, how hard could it be to lie about finding a suitcase full of uranium? Hello, Mr. Moore, have an answer for that one??? --Sound of crickets)

Darn, I promised not to get polical here! :-)
 
my boss is a fan of OLD Australian cliches - I am 20 years younger than him so they are mostly new to me (the first time anyway...)

"it's colder outside than a mother-in-law's kiss."

"we were busier than a cat covering up a poop."

"we were busier than a one-legged tap dancer."

when someone won't sit still - "up and down like a bride's nightie."

Also we are both big Fawlty Towers fans, so every time some German tourists come into the restaurant - "Don't mention the war".
Every time his wife uses the phone at work - "yes, I know. Yes, I know. Yes, I know.... If you know everything she's got to say, why do you keep ringing her?"

Chris.
 
And then there's:

More nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs!

Slicker than grease on a griddle.
 
My dad says this one, when somebody is taking forever to turn at an intersection......

"Well, he's making a career out of turning!"

And a friend of mine was telling me about her grandma, who used to say the following, when things were tense in the room.....

"It's like a hot bed of Baptists in here!"
 

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