The Cliche Game Thread

[beckbabe]

Fly in the ointment... the ointment ( a lot implied) is ruined by a single fly, the (blank) would be perfect if not for one glaring thing.

Sorta like

One rotten apple spoils the bunch.

 

[cymbidia]

One rotten apple spoils the bunch

Aw bb, you made this one too easy with your previous definition! I'm just gonna copy you...

The whole bunch of apples (a lot implied) is apt to be ruined by a single rotten one in thier midst.


Full of piss and vinegar

 

[Mensa]

Full of piss and vinegar

Wild and untamed, ready and eager to try anything.

Born under a lucky star.

 

[cymbidia]

Born under a lucky star

Someone who seems exceptionally fortunate, amazingly lucky, in all his/her undertakings.


Like a moth to a flame.

 

[Mensa]

Like a moth to a flame

Finding something that is potentially dangerous to be irresistable.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

 

[cymbidia]

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Investing a lot of oneself (money, time, energy, feelings, etc) into a person or situation or undertaking.

(This one is obviously of Brit origin!)



Last but not least

 

[Ticklish Girl]

Last but not least

An item that may be last on a list or agenda, but is no less important than those items which preceded it.

Now mine:

You can't get blood from a stone

 

[cymbidia]

~bump~


C'mon!
Someone else play!
I feel like i'm hogging it...

 

[beckbabe]

You can't get blood from a stone - No matter how hard you may try, if someone or something does not have something to give, you cannot get it. Deeper meaning - don't kill yourself trying to get something from someone that they can't give.


A penny saved is a penny earned.

 

[nasty]

That means if you save a penny you earn a penny. How about, All's well that ends well."

 

[beckbabe]

Alls well that ends well - Whatever happened doesn't matter as long as you are happy now. I never believed that one.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

 

[cymbidia]

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Things often seem the worst just before they begin to get better.


Every dog has his day.



(I'm off to take the GRE for the first time in 20 years, the second time in my life. Wish me luck.)

 

[beckbabe]

Every dog has his day - something special happens in everyone's life.

Every rose has it's thorn

 

[mfucker]

opposite of what i'm posting up....

Every cloud has a silver lining

 

[beckbabe]

Every cloud has a silver lining - Even the wosrt thing brings some good.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

 

[Darowyn]

Don't criticise things you did not have to pay for.


"If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys"

 

[cymbidia]

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

You get what you pay for, in terms of employees.

Deeper, though, it's a commentary on the practices of management attempts to get the best employees, and the most from them, for the least amount of salary and benefits.


It's no skin off my nose.

 

[beckbabe]

It's no skin off my nose - I don't care if it's bad, it's not hurting me.

If you talk the talk, then walk the walk.

 

[Mistress]

If you talk the talk, then walk the walk.

If your going to run your mouth about it, then do what you preach basically, dont just talk about it.

Show a clean pair of heels

 

[Adoratrice]

Show a clean pair of heels

Kinda like "put your best foot forward"?



not sure if it counts as a cliche' cause it's meaning is so obvious but I love

"It's as hot as a half-fucked fox in a forest fire"


never mind now that I think about it that is a simile. Carry on.

 

[Adoratrice]

Hey I just had a thought, my new sig line is a cliche' so use it instead.

 

[Mistress]

Show a clean pair of heels

Actually, just popping my head in here but this cliche means:

To get away fast, a fast get away with out problems.
As your running, you can see the back of your heels dont ask me, thats just what I know as the meaning hehehe

 

[cymbidia]

You can't stop a bird from flying over your head but you don't have to let it make a nest in your hair.

No one can control everyone around them, but you can control your reactions to them and how much you let them affect your life.


And Mistress? I've never heard of that "clean pair of heels" cliché before you offered up for our consideration. Maybe it's a regional kind of thing? Maybe it's a grandmother kind of thing and, so, on it's way to obsolescence? Maybe i just don't know as much as i think i know?




skeleton in the closet

 

[Never]

Skeleton in the closet:
Don't leave dead bodies where other people can find them.

 

[Mistress]

[ skeleton in the closet

A hidden secret......




hmm, let me see if I can look it up for you, the meaning has been changed over time. Ok, found it.....

Means: move rapidly, fast get away. The heels are what you see as a person or an animal is escaping, and when they are 'clean' they are unencumbered by a pursuer. The thought was expressed first as "fair pair of heels" in 'The Anatomie of Abuses' by Philip Stubbes (1583):"He shows them a faire pair of heeles; and away goeth he." The heels were clean by 1881, as in 'The Chaplain of the Fleet', by Sir Walter Besant and James Rice:"Your husband...will show them a clean pair of heels off the Nore."


One fell swoop