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Dennis HongMarriage & Family Therapist | Social skills coach | Writer of things | 67-inch pianist
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Burying the cliche: “Dig your own grave”

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We love the phrase, “dig your own grave.”

Unfortunately, it’s just another tired cliche by now, so we’d like to update it for 2011. What are some other ways you can tell someone they’re only creating trouble for themselves?

Here are a few we thought of:

“Fill your own urn.”

“Step on your own landmine.”

“Punch in your own launch codes.”

“Build your own jet-propelled car.”

“Stamp FAIL on your own forehead.”

“Buy your own ticket to Ciudad Juarez.”

“Troll your own blog.”

Any others you can think of?

Well, it’s better than the balsamic vinegar of readership that other sites have

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“We serve a hive mind, feeding the sucrose syrup of readership into the damp food pockets of our editor so that his young are nourished and soon to hatch.”

Unnamed writer for Cracked.com

Thank God the baby didn’t pull a Dale Sr.

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“We had to get to the hospital right away. The baby was coming faster than Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a championship race.”

The carpet tape of conservatism will foil their nefarious plans!

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“We are unwilling to let this cabal of radicals pull the rug of freedom out from under us.”

Michele Bachmann, on Democrats

But is your mind half-empty or half-full?

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“Did you just say, ‘mind bottling’?”

“No, I prefer to tap my brain directly. Draft mind always tastes fresher than bottled mind.”

Let sleeping wings snore

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“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”

George W. Bush

Stifling puppies

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“…leave this sleeping dog lie in the heat of the August afternoon and move onto the golden autumn of a new relationship.”

Frost THIS

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“I brought him a cupcake I’d made and frosted with his name.”

“AWWW, this is too sweet! I bet he loved your cupcakes.”

“He likes to help with the frosting.”

Good Tip: Avoiding mixed metaphors and clichés

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Here’s an article about proper metaphor usage from About.com. Contains both good and bad examples!

A well-oiled fang

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“You are a big rat and a snake with poisonous venom. Lots of luck to those who come here and slip in that!”