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dmb
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What about football commentators' cliches?
If he'd scored that would have been a goal
a game of two halves |
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Lynn
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Some of these aren't even cliches.
Remember, a cliche is a saying that has been over used so much that it has lost the original meaning. |
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EnglishBrian
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According to Webster's a cliche is
1. a trite phrase or expression
2. a hackneyed theme, characterisation, or situation
3. something that has become overly familiar or commonplace |
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EnglishBrian
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Now this isn't a cliche, but you know something that really annoys me on posts, and I don't know why - I'm being totally unreasonable here: when people who've written the whole post in English, then say the name of the country in 'L2' (for want of a better expression).
I'm coming to Lietuva in September.
Maybe I'll see you in Italia.
Stop, just stop! |
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dmb
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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I know what you mean.
dmb in Turkiye  |
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sigmoid
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| Some see the glass as half-empty, but some see it as half-full. |
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JonnytheMann
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| Charles_Crossley wrote: |
| mobile phones (that's "cell phones" for our North American cousins). |
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| Some Americans say mobile phone. |
| Henry_Cowell wrote: |
| So do almost all Brits. It ain't a 'cliche'. It's the name of the darn thing! |
Henry Cowell, you really thought I was offering up the phrase "mobile phone" as a cliche? 
You are such a nimrod. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:45 am Post subject: |
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What's a nimrod? apart from
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| In the Bible, a mighty hunter and king of Shinar who was a grandson of Ham and a great-grandson of Noah |
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JonnytheMann
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:49 am Post subject: |
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A nimrod is a stupid or foolish person.
Henry Cowell was aiming to belittle me with his "It ain't a 'cliche'. It's the name of the darn thing!" comment. Fortunately, it backfired on him.
Poor little nimrod. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| Ah, thanks my vocab has been expanded. In Scotland we'd say eedjit. |
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Will.
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Ah well!, you've bitten the bullet and beaten me to the mark so that about wraps all this up I guess we can knock it on the head then?.... my cliche...
unless there's anyone who disagrees....
It just invites a smack in the mouth doesn't it? |
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sigmoid
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anything about people "losing face"...
I always hope they can find it again.  |
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Henry_Cowell
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Jonnytheboy,
Next time learn how to use the quote function if you're responding to a specific message. Context is everything, even in Tennessee. |
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JonnytheMann
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| Henry_Cowell wrote: |
Jonnytheboy,
Next time learn how to use the quote function if you're responding to a specific message. Context is everything, even in Tennessee. |
Simply put, you were in the wrong, Henry. Be a man and accept responsibility. |
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Chris_Crossley
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: Who is Charles Crossley? |
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| JonnytheMann wrote: |
| Charles_Crossley wrote: |
| mobile phones (that's "cell phones" for our North American cousins). |
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Who is Charles Crossley? Nobody I know!  |
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