Cliché Meaning: upsetting the status quo. Origins and uses. Rewrite 1:tilttv1* the game Rewrite 2:jiggle the pitcher Rewrite 3:juggle the glass Rewrite 4:splittv2a the plank
Comment: Answers.com gives “disturb a stable situation” for meaning, but I see a wider application here in terms of the effects of disturbing the situation.
*Note: In rewrite 1 above, in addition to inclining the game, I meant the sense of “tilt” in which you cause the game to freeze up during play because you inclined or jiggled it too much. This denotation was more in-use with arcade games back in the 20th century.
More reading about clichés What I found when I googled “clichés”: • List of movie clichés by genre. “Each cinematic genre generally has its own litany of clichés”
posted by Booksville Bookclub at 11:45 PM on Nov 23, 2005
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