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Cliché’ "Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream", While I slept I tried to figure out how "death looked eating a soda cracker". It's very poetic yet makes no sense. No one stops to think things through; People just say things because someone said it to them. Cliche's are fun -Some over used - Some have gotten " lost in the sauce " but they make a powerful direct point with fewer words. I believe I hated it when I was told that "you don't believe fat meat is greasy" Well, people hated to answer questions back then and when I’d ask them to prove what they were stating they would say the “proof is in the pudding” -"Yeah right"...! They had no proof to back up their stupid claims on subjects that were taboo- Knowingly, the answers I sought were not "as plain as the nose on my face”... But what they said about “no good deed going unpunished” seemed truer than them all. Now Cliche's are different from Stereo types: When someone talks foolishly they could be told “you talk like a duck with no beak” Even a dunce could understand what that must have sounded like. Cliche’ yes, but very easy to describe a foolish person, that quacks horrible. "If I knew then; What I know now". I would have challenged the old cliche terminology. “youth is wasted on the young". “I say that, to say this”. Actually I had more wisdom as a youth; because, It hurt me not to know things, Not knowing could even kill me. (what you don’t know, won’t hurt you) So untrue. . As a youth "I had the time of my life”; Understood as much as any senior, and appreciated the wit and humor that figurative and literal the cliches' gave to our blues, songs, and our folktales -- Since "all is well that ends well “ I will end this prose by saying two of my favorite cliches' are "What's understood needs no explanation" Cliches are a real fun part of our language, poetry, and Metaphorical Prose. If you don't agree then "grits ain’t groceries” “eggs ain’t poultry"...and "Mona Lisa was a man".!
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