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Cliché Central

So many words and phrases can be taken in several different ways. There's the: Literal, figurative, perverse, among other approaches of interpreting words or phrases. Cliché's are very ambiguous, I find. Have you ever known of someone whom only speaks in cliché's? They try sounding intelligent and end up sounding like a walking and talking cliché' whom is without any thoughts or ideas of their own? So, I find it especially humorous to illustrate a cliché’s ambiguity by turning it around unto the individual whom stated it. Here are just a few examples of ambiguous words and phrases that I'm sure we've all read or heard a time or two in our lives. I’ll then utilize the tool known as sarcasm to showcase the ambiguity which resides in all of the following words and phrases. That’s music to my ears - I know, we all have different musical tastes and as the saying goes, "to each their own”. But when I hear the phrase, "That's music to my ears,...