Welcome to CLICHE THEATRE: The phrase...?
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Pretty soon so many people will be "thinking outside the box" that the only truly unique thinking will actually be "inside the box" once again.\n\nI think it's equivalent to yelling "fire" in a theater to gain yourself a better seat.
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Quotation\n***********\n"Look how we live, an’ wheer we live, an’ in what numbers, an’ by what chances, an’ wi’ what sameness; and look how the mills is awlus a-goin’, and how they never works us no nigher to onny distant object-‘ceptin awlus Death. Look how you considers of us, and writes of us, and talks of us, and goes up wi’ your deputations to Secretaries o’ State ‘bout us, and how yo are awlus right, and how we are awlus wrong, and never had’n no reason in us sin ever we were born. Look how this ha’ growen an’ growen sir, bigger an’ bigger, broader an’ broader, harder an’ harder, fro year to year, fro generation unto generation. Who can look on’t sir, and fairly tell a man ‘tis not a muddle?"\n********************************************************\nExplanation of quotation\n**************************\n\nStephen Blackpool’s speech to Bounderby, from Book the Second, Chapter 5, is one of the few glimpses that we receive into the lives of the Hands. His long sentences and repetition of words such as “an’” and “Look” mimic the monotony of the workers’ lives. Similarly, Stephen’s dialect illustrates his lack of education and contrasts with the proper English spoken by the middle-class characters and by the narrator. In spite of his lack of formal education, however, Stephen possesses greater insight about the relationship between employer and employee than does Bounderby. Stephen notes that “yo” (the factory owners and employers) and “us” (the Hands) are constantly opposed, but that the Hands stand no chance in the contest because the employers possess all the wealth and power. However, he does not blame the employers solely for the suffering of the poor, concluding instead that the situation is a “muddle” and that it is difficult to determine who is responsible for society’s ills. Stephen also suggests that the monotony of factory labor seems futile to the Hands, who need to strive for some larger goal in order to make the endless round of production seem worthwhile. The “distant object” or larger goal that he mentions here is later symbolized by the bright star on which he gazes while trapped at the bottom of the mine shaft.\n\n*********\n hey,pal you can find all details on  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hardtimes/
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The term is actually a tagline, not a caption.\n\nHow about - convenient teleterminal center - or - recharge the conversation.\n\nOne is descriptive, the other is clever and memorable.\n\ngood luck, joetheadguy@aol.com
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phrase is used to setting up a bet to prove what your saying.
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What's the question?  What you are describing is a baseline phrase.
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It is Just a phrase we use when we are happy, kind a like COOL!, we use that to say pretty cool. Did you like the movie I love it. If you did email me and let me know at meeradw@yahoo.com
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WTF are you trying to say?  In plain English please!
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in what context do you need these analogies?\nlike poetic or exact descriptions?
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I'm not familiar with this phrase at all, but I found this song called "Squid Jigging Ground" on the net - which when taken at face value appears to be a song about men fishing for squid ... but I wonder if "squid jigging" might be a euphemism for something else entirely!!! - or is it just me having a filthy mind?!!!   Hmmmmm
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In what context?\n\nHow have you heard this phrase used - on the face of it, it doesn't make sense
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Quote:\nNever say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour. He will always use it in evidence against you. \n\nAuthor: Beerbohm, Herbert, Sir
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I believe the phrase is used to indicate to the speaker that he is being un-neccessarily verbose...
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C. worn-out\n\nA cliche is not just something that lots of people say; It's something that lots of people say and it conveys some sort of idea or message. A cliche is, in other words, a metaphor characterized by its overuse.
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Try googling the phrase in quotation marks.
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In plain english?\n\nIt means any writing or art or movie that is completely overdone or overused to the point that it is boring for people to look at.\n\nFor instance, japanese anime is becoming very "cliched" at art schools and questions about George Bush are becoming very "cliched" on Yahoo answers. \n\nCliched is actually the correct usage because it is the adjective form of the noun "cliche".\n\n(Sorry, I didn't know how to make the little accent mark over the e)
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As far as I know it comes from the theater, when the director would say "let the show begin". hope this helps
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I personally consider a cliche to be a word or phrase that has been over used...This one is rather new to me.  I sort of recall hearing it before, but I am not entirely sure.  There is humor to it, but is it meant to mean something dissappears fast or slow?  I would think a pizza at a weight watchers convention would sit there all day because everyone is watching what they eat.  On the other hand, all the people could be starving for real food, and a pizza would fit that description perfectly, even thoughit is not what some would consider real food!...Anyways, it seems that no, it is not a cliche!