Meaning: a successful effort. Use examples. Rewrite 1: hit it beyond the reach of the “Green Monster” Rewrite 2: knock it into the parking lot Rewrite 3: over the roof and out of reach Rewrite 4: hit it out of state Rewrite 5: hit it to the moon and back
Comment: It’s fairly easy to pick up sports and space analogies, so be careful you don’t drop one cliché to pick up another.
More reading about clichés What I found when I googled “clichés”: • Adholes Posting: The ultimate list of advertising clichés. (May require logging in or registering.)
Check out the newalphabetical list of all my cliché rewrites available in the archive list at the right. To search the page using Internet Explorer, just go to “Edit” in the top menu bar, select “Find”, then enter the cliché or a word from it.
posted by Booksville Bookclub at 12:22 PM on Jan 19, 2006
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