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[Closed] Subverting hackneyed phrases.

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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?


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 12:21 pm
 DezB
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Brought tears to my eyes that 😆


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 12:55 pm
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anyone do one for "we're all in this together". 😆


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 12:57 pm
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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."


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 12:58 pm
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"You cant polish a turd", "but you can roll it in glitter".


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 12:59 pm
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We're all in this together, but some of us are more in it than others.


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 1:05 pm
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We are..

Where we are.

No substitute for that insightful piece of high level intelligence 🙄


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 1:06 pm
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[i]No substitute for that insightful piece of high level intelligence[/i]

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.


 
Posted : 09/04/2014 1:17 pm