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Mind Your Ps and Qs

April 20, 2011 Blogging and Blog Events

I’m known around here as a first-class mangler of phrases and clichés.
For some reason, I have a really tough time with clichés and idioms. I’m always getting them wrong. Take “pedal to the metal”, for instance. For years, I’d say “Petal to the metal”. It rhymes, after all!
So this morning I woke up [...]

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The Art of Mangling Clichés

January 26, 2010 Writing

I’ve never met a cliché that I haven’t mangled in some way or other.
The other day I was thinking to myself, “Hey, wait a minute. There is a cliché that I know inside out. That I would never, not in a million years, mangle. A dollar for your thoughts. Hah!”
It took me a few hours [...]

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