What is a cliché? A cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. "Cliché" came to mean such a ready-made phrase (Wikipedia, 2011).
In that case in an age where “Time is Money” a readymade phrase pays for itself. Only problem is that one always finds the slightly dimmer members of society using clichés (out of context), in an attempt to wow their audiences with their brilliance.
When will someone just set them right? Or is it simply to must fun to sit in amazement thinking “Are you an experiment in Artificial Stupidity?” I reckon we’ll never rid the world of clichés or stupid people. Moral of the story is to think before you speak OR simply just shut up if you haven’t got anything of value to speak about.
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