I was going through my corporate notebook today. It's a hard-covered ledger where I take my notes from meeting to meeting. In the back I capture interesting nostalgia from corporate life -- bingo words, quotes, experiences.
I had a guy work for me that was a Cliche Master. Here are JUST a few I captured. Don't ask me what some of them mean!
- Shake the 8 ball
- Brass tax
- Feedback monkey
- Crux
- Hit the Nail on the head
- Whisper from the Lietenant
- Dominus Ominus
- Circle the Wagons
- Belly up to the bar
- Strafed into that
- Tree top discussion
- Could you be a gem...
- Fly caught in the soup
- Real storm brewing...clouds on the horizon
- Goat rodeo
- I'd rather lick chalk in the rain
- Rally the troops
- Blocking and tackling
There are some more in here from a few anonymous co-workers:
- We don't want to waste emotion on that
- We have to table set the org announcement
- "Cauterize"
- Put some wood behind this arrow
- The hamster in the snake
- Bucketize the gluttony of resumes
- Landscape of unmanaged problems
- Don't want Mike to spin his mental power
- Spastic recovery effort
- Can you walk in a windstorm
- Did you all decide on the trackey-poos
- When what's his face was our manager
- Dripping in wittiness
- I've got to discuss an armpit topic
- You like your nuts, don't you? [female co-worker, referring to peanuts on my desk]
- ...are those the nuts you've had for the past year?
- Our rating system creates feelings that don't add value
- He's kind of like farting along
- Another really thing that's important
- [consulting firm name here] wrote this...I'm not sure what it means. But should we ask for that?
- ...I'm not sure they knew either.