Clichés

Clichés

Have Student try to come up with an alternative to these clichés.  Discuss how clichés are seen as powerless language

1. Last but not least

2. Bright as the sun

3. Clean as a whistle

4. Cool as a cucumber

5. Dark as night

6. Dead as a doornail

7. Easy come, easy go

8. Free as a bird

9. Fresh as a daisy

10. Good as gold

11. Hard as a rock

12. Light as a feather

13. Old as the hills

14. Pretty as a picture

15. Quiet as a mouse

16. Red as a rose

17. Shake like a leaf

18. Ugly as sin

19. White as a sheet