More than 100 times in the last month, readers have been urged to “talk turkey” or some variation, according to Nexis. There were nearly 1,000 occurrences of the phrase “all the trimmings” in news reports by the time Thanksgiving was a week away. The overstuffed day will trigger the mother lode of clichés: “’Tis the season”; “Yes, Virginia,” especially when not applied to the actual letter written to The Sun; reference to ghosts, especially applied to “present past”; and so on until we “ring in the new year” without actually using any bells.
For goodness’ sake, it’s enough to send a reader into a tryptophan coma. Most holiday clichés come to us through songs, and you’re welcome to sing them. Just don’t appropriate their lyrics in worn-out written clichés.
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