I hope to make this list cumulative but at the moment only the following cliches spring to mind. Idioms and proverbs also come under this heading. moriarty.
[edit] Fire sayings
- Where there's smoke there's fire
- Getting on like a house on fire
- Those that play with fire get burnt
[edit] Sport
- Its a game of 2 halves
- Its one-sided
[edit] Business
- Maximum results, minimum effort
- Think outside the box
- Push the envelope
- Work smarter not harder (aka don't complain about hard work because it's obviously your own fault)
- My boss likes to say "work smarter and harder"
[edit] Political (Bush)
- Stay the course
- Winning the hearts and minds (This was originally used in Vietnaam and winning the hearts and minds of the vietnaamese people involved burning their homes, livestock, food and sometimes them if they looked like they might have at some point heard something that might have been someone who smelt like VC)
- A hand in Condelessa is worth two in the Bush.
[edit] Racist
- Sweating like a nigger
- Running like a nigger after raping a white girl
- Could eat a sweaty nigger on horseback
[edit] IRC
- No You (or its mis-spelt counterparts)
- Shup
- Anything involving bees or ham
[edit] Religion
- Hail Mary
- Allah ackbar
- Meat is murder
- Redrum is team
[edit] Manners
- If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
- If the wind changes your face will stay like that forever.