[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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