Just because you can lead a mixed metaphor to water doesn't mean you can make it take off like a rocket.
Trickier than eating popcorn in the shower.
Turn that wayno, I mean the other wayabout a mile or so before you get to the big white farm house that burned down about five years ago.
Twice as much fun as two puppies and an old sock.
Heck, if they weren't paying me, I'd have to pay them.
Vacuous promises will be available in the second quarter.
Colorful expressions make modern audiences feel theyre riding an uphill glacier: if you dont fall into a crevasse of self-importance, youll surely trigger an avalanche of cuteness.
Avoid euphemisms like the you know what.
A good cliché is worth its weight in gold.
Neglecting to exercise a dictionary can make ones usage seem incontinent.
A metaphor is like a simile, except it stands for something kind of like a symbol. Your word processors got five or six icons to take care of all that stuff automatically.
Use a thesaurus to enliven your communications with appetizing, buoyant, crepitatious, definitive, elegant, fanciful, graphic, hilarious, ingenious, judicious, kaleidoscopic, languid, melodic, neoclassical, opportune, powerful, quotidian, regal, sonorous, tenacious, ubiquitous, venerable, whimsical, xenobiotic, yearning, zany adjectives.
Analogies in business communications are like bunny rabbits on bicycles: they just dont fly.
