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What are your favorite/least favorite clichés? If we get enough, maybe we can make an entire story out of them?
I start with "the silence was deafening".
CaptainCortez
12-01-10, 14:42
Welcome aboard. ;)
That's a clichéd saying. We're not on a boat/ship though.
The end? It has only just begun!
"I'll be back"
thats a cliché
or
"Tomorrow never comes"
or
"When hell freezes over"
or
"You haven't a snowballs chance in hell"
or
"There's a brass monkey looking for a welder out there"
"I'll be back"
thats a cliché
Isn't that just a quote from Terminator 2? I don't recall hearing it anywhere else except in reference to it.
Isn't that just a quote from Terminator 2? I don't recall hearing it anywhere else except in reference to it.
True but it has become a cliché
it was T1 that started it and cliché means to stereotype
the brass monkey relates to a saying "that it would freeze the b*lls off a brass monkey" in relation to very cold weather
I'd agree. That's a good bunch you have there! Never heard the last one though! :blink:
junglist_dnb
12-01-10, 16:01
" its not over till the fat lady sings "
I don't know why but I find it to be a cliché.
draconacticus
12-01-10, 16:07
One of my favourites is "Many a mickle makes a muckle"
" its not over till the fat lady sings "
I don't know why but I find it to be a cliché.
Yipe thats one ok another is "break a leg" has to do with acting
One of my favourites is "Many a mickle makes a muckle"
Never heard of it but its a cracker
another cliche:
the girl always falls in love with the guy, then the guy finds out and tells everyone. then the family of the girl hires the mafia to kill the guy while the guy's ex wife calls in a tank and tears through the girl's house like it was paper. then the guy captures and murders the girl's dog while secretly the girl's dog is actually the guys iguana and the guy falls into deep depression. his friend convinces him to take medication but the girl's girlfriends poison it and the guy falls into a coma. then the police get involved and find the iguana guilty, however it was already murdered....
the family of the girl then emigrates to singapore where they rent a submarine and live with the jellyfish as professional whistlers. the guy's family then gets all angry that the girl's parents filed a law suit against them while in the subamarine (via phone calls), and the guy's family go on a killing rampage throughout the city of constantinople. while the whole family is away on a killing spree, the girl finds her revenge by stabbing the guy in the spleen. then they get married and live happily ever after :)
or maybe that's just the movies i've seen....
CaptainCortez
12-01-10, 18:16
Technically as this thread suggests that there's a billion different meanings of what a cliché is, I'd say that this can be classed as one, as it's widely used by people:
"You can run, but you can't hide!"
Many supposed clichés in this thread are just sayings, so that covers it. :p
Technically as this thread suggests that there's a billion different meanings of what a cliché is, I'd say that this can be classed as one, as it's widely used by people:
"You can run, but you can't hide!"
Many supposed clichés in this thread are just sayings, so that covers it. :p
true, but i still like mine :D
another cliche is when a guy gets on one knee and proposes..... HOW DID THAT TRADITION START ANYWAY???
CaptainCortez
12-01-10, 22:04
Not sure, but I feel sorry for all of those kneeling men out there....especially if they have problems with their knee's!
They could go down, but they wouldn't be getting back up again in a hurry!
See, you don't see people in films, actually finding it difficult to get back up again, but this could happen! XD
draconacticus
13-01-10, 09:01
I proposed in an ice cave at the top of Les Deux Alpes while snowboarding. I sat down because it was too slippy to kneel. I asked my girlfriend to sit too, and she said "No, my arse hurts" (she fell pretty hard when she stacked it on the first day), ahhh romance!
I proposed in an ice cave at the top of Les Deux Alpes while snowboarding. I sat down because it was too slippy to kneel. I asked my girlfriend to sit too, and she said "No, my arse hurts" (she fell pretty hard when she stacked it on the first day), ahhh romance!
TMMD
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Not really a cliche but I like it...
Life SUCKS, and then you die!
Sky_Dragon
13-01-10, 19:43
Isn't it 'Life's a B***h and then you die'?
junglist_dnb
13-01-10, 20:26
No its "lifes a b###h & then you marry one"
CaptainCortez
14-01-10, 00:47
I thought it was just "Life's a b****" in general. :p
Ah well, my favourite saying is "Son of a....." XD