Strong writing is a unique feature of capable authors. It is not merely words strung together, copied and pasted, from society’s lingo.
Here are clichés to avoid…like the plague:
[found on clichesite.com]
- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- Abandon ship
- About face
- Above board
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder
- Absolute power corrupts absolutely
- Ace in the hole
- Ace up his sleeve
- Achilles heel
- Acid test
- Acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree, The
- Actions speak louder than words
- After my own heart
- Ah, to be young and foolish…
- Airing dirty laundry
- All bent out of shape
- All bets are off
- All dressed up and nowhere to go
- All ears
- All for one, and one for all
- All hands on deck
- All hands to the pump
- All heck (hell) breaks loose
- All in a day’s work
- All in due time
- All over the map
- All paled in comparison
- All talk and no action
- All that glitters is not gold
- All that jazz
- All the bits and pieces
To see the complete list of clichés from clichesite.com, click here.
[found on http://clichesite.com/alpha_list.asp?which=lett+1]
