Sick of clichés? Working on the Almanac where every word needs to count, I’ve learned how much space they can take up without really conveying much of anything. Well Matthew Baldwin at the hilarious blog Defective Yeti is sick of them too. He has started the Cliché Rotation Project to replace worn-out sayings with newer, snappier, more relevant ones. Here are some of my favorites from the first batch of reader-submitted ideas:

Old Cliché	Replacement
The blind leading the blind	Enrolled in the Paris and Nicole Academy
Don't be a party-pooper	Don't squeeze out your grumpies in public
It's a win-win situation	Everyone gets ice cream!
Knuckle sandwich	Boot soufflé
More fun than a barrel of monkeys	More fun than 20 yards of bubble wrap
Nice guys finish last	No one remembers Ivan the Wonderful
Playing second fiddle	Jeeves in a Google world

Click over to Defective Yeti to read more. If you have some ideas of your own, submit them. He’s looking to make this an ongoing project.

Flickr photo by DonnitaMae