Ah, how many of you in your school years have heard your teacher critique one of your papers saying, "That's cliche"?
"Apple of my eye, Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, Bringing home the bacon, wake up on the wrong side of the bed, The best of both worlds, Bite the bullet, Throw me a bone, Break a leg, Drinking the Kool-Aid, and quite frankly: Cut the Cheese. Yes, all these terms and more are considered cliche, and you will never hear the end of it if you so much as think of putting it in any form of assignment.
But I have the solution! I have found the perfect response to such a thing. Has not, "That's cliche," become a cliche term itself?
Cliche by merriam webster's dictionary means: something that has become overly familiar or commonplace. And I'm sure you hear "That's cliche" enough to where it is all too familiar. We must demand that these people stop this! The proletariat must overcome the bourgeoisie! Oh woops, wrong speech:/
Anyways, if you are one who uses that term, say something that no one else uses, pull a Shakespeare and just make up a word that seems to make sense, "That's Flargeninen." But DON'T be cliche and say, "That's cliche."
I will have to remember this the next I encounter this issue!
ReplyDeleteI know you encounter it often.;)
DeleteOllie has not updated his blog in over seven months. I wasn't sure there was a point to it since I now teach a straight third grade and figured big 8 year olds might not be as entertained by the escapades of an obese cat. After the event of this weekend, with Ollie in perilous health, I decided we needed to update his blog. If nothing else, updating the blog would be therapeutic for me. Ollie wrote about his struggles with the writing process as it pertains to fiction writing. And with what in particular did he struggle, you ask? His use of cliches. Is it coincidence that after a seven month hiatus from writing, when Ollie does return, he writes about his prolific use of cliches only to turn to your blog and find you have written about the same thing. He's going to try harder not to be flageninen.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I'll pray Ollie goes on to write many more flagenin free blogs to come.
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