Unpleasant modern expressions

It's just not my 'thing' !

I like "blue sky thinking". And "thinking outside the box".

A lot of these expressions simply apply very well to the way of life we lead nowadays. They are useful.

"starter husband"?! That implies you are going to progress on to others!

I do like the expression' starter husband' and hope it applies to one of my SIL's.

Sorry should be bull****!

At work we play bull** bingo where we tick off the number of expressions like "blue sky thinking" that our senior managers use in meetings!

Chalkboard instead of blackboard. Political correctness gone mad....

If you've just invented them, they aren't clichés - yet!

All mine I'm afraid. Have I mixed up my macchiato with a cappuccino? I don't like milk in any frm and they're just names to me. I thought a macchiato was a black coffee with a smear of froth, but I expect someone will put me right and rewrite the cliché.

Now, bets on how long it will be before one of them turns up

Mice are they your own inventions .... I've never heard them!

No froth on a macchiato ...

Top of the candle flame?

Edge of the bookshelf

Beyond the suburb

The trowel's tip

Beyond the froth on a macchiato ....

De-train and de-plane really get on my pip!

I was hoping someone could explain that, Ana! Maybe it's thinking up new ideas without conventional notions clouding one's thinking. Oh, it takes a metaphor to try to explain another metaphor!

Perhaps I could if I knew what 'blue sky thinking' meant...

River - I was thrilled!

Many of these clichés started out as fresh and meaningful metaphors. Now they are tired and overused. Who can suggest a fresh and interesting alternative to 'blue sky thinking', for example?

Blue sky thinking.
Thinking outside the box.

(Can you have blue sky thinking inside the box?)

Another one.
It's a big ask.

KatyK

Did that make your day or annoy you?

It's like that awful expression 'starter home' - as though everyone should be aspiring to something bigger, better and of course more expensive...

I fine the expression, 'entry level' annoying. First of all what does it mean? I assumed it meant a basic unskilled job as I heard a tv programme saying that immigrants were taking entry level jobs such as fruit picking etc. However I was seeking a new tyre for my car the other day and the guy quoted the prices as being from 'entry level' upwards.
I have also heard holidays described as 'entry level'. 'Entry' to what?
Anyone got any ideas.

When I told a cold caller at our door last week that I didn't want new windows, his reply was 'no worries babe' (I'm 64)

As I've said before I strongly dislike today's use of the word 'like'

Functionality! What is wrong with just plain 'function' but we must move with the times I suppose..............

Basically. And random.

But it sounds so lush when she says it!

What's occurring?