Cliches you love to hate!

[burglar]

I'll start off with one that I loved, the first two times I heard it!

"Love your work ... !"

 

[SirRumpole]

I avoid cliches like the plague

 

[wayneL]

I'm with Sam Goldwyn, let's have some new cliches.

 

[SirRumpole]

The embattled Joe Hockey...

The troubled Harriet Wran...

 

[Ruby]

The Aussie battler...........

 

[DB008]

"At the end of the day..."

 

[sptrawler]

"Things are different now".

 

[SirRumpole]

Hard working Aussie families (seems to have gone out of fashion now)

 

[Julia]

Tony Abbott is the master of the cliche. Heaven help us, he now has a new one to accompany the government's intention to deprive any Australian fighting in jihadist wars overseas of social security benefits, something I doubt anyone would disagree with.

He has apparently described it as "terrorist tourism"!

My pet loathing is "in any way, shape or form". Tautology.
Thankfully, "moving forward" seems to have fallen from favour.
Now, if we could just get rid of "Australian working families" which implies that only people in blue collar jobs actually do any work.

 

[burglar]

... only people in blue collar jobs actually do any work.

Apparently, only one in seven actually works!
The other six stand in a semicircle and watch! :

 

[pavilion103]

"You just get the feeling the next goal is important" - Bruce

 

[Calliope]

IMO; and IMHO is even more cringe worthy.

 

[macca]

Mum and Dad investors

and on a completely different topic

Every a**hole drug pusher who gets killed in a drug deal gone wrong "was such a good boy"

 

[DB008]

"First World Problem(s)..."

 

[SirRumpole]

"I was blown away", or "I was gobsmacked"

 

[Calliope]

at the end of the day
back on track
the fact of the matter
few and far between
a level playing field
in this day and age
to all intents and purposes
when all’s said and done
in the final analysis
come full circle
par for the course
think outside the box
avoid someone or something like the plague
in the current climate
mass exodus
at this moment in time
the path of least resistance
a baptism of fire
in any way, shape, or form
fit for purpose

 

[SirRumpole]

a war of attrition

the final wrap up

that's the way it was

time will tell

time heals all wounds

a contest of ideas

let's have a conversation with the people

It's there in black and white

He's a colourfull character

Too good to be true

 

[Julia]

The only ones I can think of that you've omitted, Rumpole and Calliope, is

so Australian families can put food on the table

I'm so over it

 

[SirRumpole]

I'm so over it

or SO anything..

that's SO yesterday

that's SO sick

or NOT

that's SO funny, NOT

etc

 

[pinkboy]

or SO anything..

that's SO yesterday

that's SO sick

or NOT

that's SO funny, NOT

etc

Like, when people like, say like through their like sentences and stuff?

pinkboy