Garden-Variety Clichés

By Allan Metcalf. Clichés are something else. By definition, they are weeds in the gardens of language. No more, no less. And there’s the rub. Clichés are a whole different ballgame.
No plants are weeds by nature or by definition. They are weeds if and only if a particular gardener doesn’t want them around. One man’s uprooted dandelion is another man’s dandelion soup. Read more...