[Ads-l] new cliche'
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 9 15:01:48 UTC 2016
A Jaguar XF commercial warns against speaking in cliche's. The example is
somebody at a business lunch saying, "Sometimes you gotta keep the chimp in
the cage."
Google turns up one from 2008.
And a handful since then.
It seems not to have anything to do with the Republican primaries, however.
JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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