📖 Welcome to the dictionary of the trite and overdone! Dive under the blanket of familiarity with clichés, and make your way through snooze-worthy phrases while keeping an eye open for a giggle or two.
Entries That Make You Yawn with Familiarity
Seeing is Believing
Meaning: To believe something only after seeing it personally. Related Terms: Eye-witness, verified with one’s own eyes. Proverbs & Quotes: “Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand.” - Benjamin Franklin ✨ Synonyms: Seeing for oneself, witnessing. Antonyms: Blind faith, gullibility. Suggested Media: “The Polar Express” (movie), “The Proof” by David Auburn (play)
“Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see.” - Edgar Allan Poe 📜
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Meaning: Eating healthy foods will keep you well. Related Terms: Healthy diet, preventive medicine. Proverbs & Quotes: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” - Hippocrates 🍏 Synonyms: Eat healthy, maintain wellness. Antonyms: Junk food, poor diet. Suggested Media: “Forks Over Knives” (documentary), “Cooked” by Michael Pollan (book)
“While an apple a day keeps the doctor away, a good laugh a day keeps the shrink at bay.” - Unknown 😂
Fit as a Fiddle
Meaning: In very good health. Related Terms: Hale and hearty, in the pink. Proverbs & Quotes: “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” - Jim Rohn 🌟 Synonyms: In good shape, healthy as a horse. Antonyms: Out of shape, unwell. Suggested Media: “Rocky” (movie), “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall (book)
“Sure he’s fit as a fiddle. Only his fiddle’s badly strung.” - Noel Coward 🎻
Hit the Nail on the Head
Meaning: To describe exactly what is causing a situation or problem. Related Terms: On the mark, spot on. Proverbs & Quotes: “If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning.” - Pete Seeger’s Song 🎤 Synonyms: Precisely, exactly right. Antonyms: Missed the point, off target. Suggested Media: “Sherlock Holmes” (TV series), “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell (book)
“Thank goodness our mistakes frequently hit the nail on the head.” - L. M. Montgomery 🎯
Barking up the Wrong Tree
Meaning: Pursuing a mistaken or misguided course. Related Terms: On a wild goose chase, led astray. Proverbs & Quotes: “He who builds to every man’s advice will have a crooked house.” - Danish Proverb 🏗️ Synonyms: Misguided, misdirected. Antonyms: On the right track, correctly targeted. Suggested Media: “Into the Wild” (book & movie), “The Pursuit of Happyness” (movie)
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” - Mark Twain 🐱
Do You Know Your Clichés? 🍂
May we always find the humor even in the clichés of life, for it is within the ordinary that we often uncover the extraordinary.
- Snooza McBoredom
