Cliches

'Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23' And 'Girls' Make Me Realize My Life Is A TV Cliché

Alexandra Gekas | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Girls, New York City Rent, Don?T Trust the B in Apartment 23, Sex and the City, Independent Women, New Yorkers, Tv Cliches, Women in New YOrk, Cliches, Lena Dunham, Women News

Young post-college women come to New York City to live the "dream," only to find out it's more of a pizza-and-scuzzy-guy-filled nightmare of long subway rides to low-paying (or no-paying) jobs.

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Don't Believe Everything You Hear

Darina Kagan | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Interpersonal Communication, Slogans, Wisdom, Phrases, Cliches, Communication, Healthy Living News

America: the land of slogans, phrases, "You know what they say"s, and jingles, where a person can spew off a verse to a jingle and immediately associa...

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Priceless: The Value of Nothing

Paul Schwennesen | Posted 03.18.2012

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The beauty of price, in contrast, is that it represents a consensus, a vote as it were, of the collective judgment of something's relative value. A Rembrandt's worth is not "incalculable" but is actually $33 million at Christie's.

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Why Wedding Speeches Don't Have To Suck

Wendy Dennis | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Heart and Soul, Speechifying Brilliance, Wedding Celebration, Killed, Microphone, Great Speech, Ivy League, Heinous Wedding Speeches, Podium, Wedding Nazi, Cliches, Weddings News

You know when you're at a wedding and the speeches are about to begin, and you take your seat with a heightened sense of anticipation, because this is...

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PHOTOS: Cliches You Wish Were Banned From Use

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Bad Cliches, Cliche Use, Writing, Bad Writing, Grammar, Banning Cliches, Banned Cliches, Cliches, Books News

Wake up and smell the coffee. Stop and smell the roses. The grass is always greener on the other side. We've all heard them a million times, and t...

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My Post-Divorce Fling: The Ultimate Cliché

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boy Toy, Soccer Moms, Baby Boomers, Aging, Divorce, Midlife, Middle-Aged, Cliches, 40-Somethings, Younger Men, .Sex, Divorce News

Excerpted and revised from Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s, a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Fund. "Who's that?" my older s...

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Bad Author Photos

Flavor Wire | Posted 05.25.2011

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Excellent authors avoid writing cliches. The problem is that some of these very authors do not apply the same level of vigilance when it comes to taki...

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Crammed Down The Throat: The Mediagasm (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, Josh Fruhlinger of Wonkette wrote: If you follow American politics and you have a soul, one of your least favorite phrases is some varia...

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English Language Tart and Fettered

John Vorhaus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Expressions, Cliches, Idioms, English Language, Comedy News

My grandfather grew up in one of those quaint European countries that don't exactly exist anymore, and while he never quite mastered the English langu...

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The Most Annoying Success Cliche of All Time

Noah St. John | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Loving Mirrors, Noah St. John, Believe in Yourself, Afformations, Cliches, Self Motivation, Healthy Living News

"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it." ...

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It's Not You, It's My Disinterest in You

Jeff A. Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Relationship Advice, Commitment, Relationships, Relationships and Maturity, Maturity, Cliches, College News

The one thing that is worse than a relationship that's not going to work is a drawn-out relationship that's not working.

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Man Run Over While Stopping to Smell the Roses

Mark C. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comedy, Mark Miller, Wake Up and Smell the Roses, Cliches, Comedy News

The last few seconds of Hubert's life HIXSON, Tenn. - People who rush through life without noticing or enjoying the beauty around them are often en...

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'New' Markets + New Media

Michael Hastings-Black | Posted 05.25.2011

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When brands aim to reach minority markets, most opt to play it safe with the tropes that Blacks value 'soul', Latinos love 'family', Asians are 'sedulous', etc...

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The Most Annoying Phrases on Earth

Leslie Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Language, Literally, Damp Squid, Phrases, Annoying, English, Irritating, Like, Oxford, Top 10 Most Irritating Expressions, Oxford Language Study, 24/7, Lol, Overused Langauge, Overused Phrases, Grammatically Incorrect, Cliches, Style News

You think it's annoying when someone starts a sentence with the word "ironically," when it most certainly is not? Or when McCain uttered "My friends" enough times to warrant a drinking game?

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