CLICHE du jour

At the crack of dawn; stumbling blocks; I think that clichés have bedded themselves in our languages much like a vein-eating virus would. I agree with you: they seem so passé, obviously.

Although I've been getting little sleep, too...

I suggest you lie in a quiet dark room at the same appointed time and let your mind drift keep at it and you will find yourself sleeping more......AT THE END OF THE DAY........

Come on guys! Let's start thinking OUTSIDE THE BOX! (BUT I DIGRESS...)

The bottom line is; "at the end of the day" just isn't that bad.

I take it "at the end of the day" is being used as a sort of substitute for "the bottom line is"?

I don't get this thread at all.

Attepting to understand it makes me feel like a three-legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond.

That's not really a cliché now is it?

Adding insult to injury are the pundits who

Pause dramatically

Deliver the cliche

And then explain the cliche.

While they are pointing a finger at you.

You are the man...I stand in shock and awe... you rock, but please... don't go there.

Cats sooo don't try and bury stuff on frozen bodies of water...the number of legs makes almost no difference - at the end of the day...

Yeah! What is this sooooooo, everything, lately? What is up with that, anyway??

Heehee.....

whassup wit dat is like what da dillio.
Somehow these dont bother me. Its just those borg phrases.

At least cdK was tring to be creative in his speech. i salute that.

You dissin' me?

Hmmm - cliches are prolly just part of our thinking economics system - you know, the tendency to take short-cuts and store things in blocs, rather than re-do everything all the time. When they are new, they probably have the joy of good metaphors - (you know - that lovely aha feeling of revelation we get from a good metaphor - especially when someone uses one to encapsulate and advance our understanding of what we have just said to them - as a therapist I work in such metaphors all the time) and so they tend to stick in our minds as a shortcut - then everyone starts to use them, and we gradually move on.

Social groupings probably also like to have group-identity affirming cliched sayings like "soooooooo' and "whatevah" and "like".

I suppose not everyone has the mental creativity to come up with their own similes and metaphors - so they become like linguistic general currency.

I wonder what percentage of the population is actually annoyed by them?

I guess i just block many of them out of my sphere of speech recognition. its just that some of them , like "at the end of the day' are almost a govt'ese shibboleth that must be used in order to appear on Sun AM talking head shows

Sure - part of the uniform...

Let me be perfectly clear. The bottom line is, that at the end of the day, these thread bare phrases, set my teeth on edge, like fingers dragging across a chalk board.

I've never heard "at the end of the day" used very much. Maybe it's a local thing.