This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 978.

When can you use a cliche and how can you introduce it?

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dot com forward slash subscribe. scribe. Cliches are idioms that are overused and unoriginal.

But how can you know when it's okay to use them?

And what can you say to warn someone that you know it's a

cliche find out today.

Hey Lindsay how's it going?

Hey Michelle not too bad at all how about you? I'm good I'm good here on this

Monday yeah it's Monday Monday and we're getting ready for our urban immersion adventure in a couple of weeks in New York, Michelle.

That's right. Oh my gosh. I am getting so excited about that.

It's going to be amazing. We've got all the plans prepared for our students. They're flying in and I just can't

wait to meet our students, our listeners listeners and bring them through this intensive weekend.

Oh yeah, it is going to be so much fun.

I'm just like I'm really excited to have everybody in New York like I'm excited to show everyone

around and give you a cool experience.

Yeah it's gonna be great it's gonna be great so what are we talking about today?

Well today we were talking about well I have a question do you Do you think that you speak in a lot of cliches?

Oh, jeez, I don't... I think I do. Well, I know when I've said a cliche, like when I'm saying it I I roll my eyes internally

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