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  • Subverting hackneyed phrases.
  • HughStew
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    I just heard someone in a meeting respond to “When life gives you lemons…” with “make a large gin and tonic”, which I thought was rather good and pleasingly, irritated the dreary knobber who was about to respond with the irredeemably banal “make lemonade”.

    What are your examples of subverting hackneyed phrases?

    DezB
    Free Member

    [video]http://youtu.be/zSyChy1m8vQ[/video]

    Brought tears to my eyes that 😆

    racefaceec90
    Full Member

    anyone do one for “we’re all in this together”. 😆

    CaptJon
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    “we’re all in this together, like an uncomfortable bath with you little sister.”

    “We’re all in this together, like the passengers left on the Titanic.”

    mps711
    Free Member

    “You cant polish a turd”, “but you can roll it in glitter”.

    We’re all in this together, but some of us are more in it than others.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    We are..

    Where we are.

    No substitute for that insightful piece of high level intelligence 🙄

    IHN
    Full Member

    No substitute for that insightful piece of high level intelligence

    Sometimes it’s the only answer to people pointlessly whinging about how things might be different now if things had been done differently in the past.

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