"Cliches are shorthand for more complicated thoughts. And they’re comfortable, like broken-in slippers," Mike Feinsilber writes. They're also a writer's worst enemy — "They proclaim 'written by a tired writer who ain’t trying hard.'" Feinsilber offers some tips for putting a fresh twist on the stalest expression, like this Maureen Dowd line about New York's would-be mayor, the incorrigible Anthony Weiner: “Weiner continues to play the rebel without a pause.”
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