This little game I used to play on long car journeys with my kids. Well they were preteens and teens when we played. It is called Resuscitate the Dead Cliche.

Anybody out there want to play? Guess the cliche(s). Or add your own and let us guess.


Never mind whether or no they are worthy of reviving
Can you tell from which cliche, I am deriving
when I say that

Lady Luck and I are going set up a sidewalk kiosk dispensing citrus refreshment

He whacks a circuitous path at the rhododendron

A turkey in the oven is more nourishing than a skeet shoot

It is highly inadvisable that one should embark upon a career in either mooching or loansharking

A fine point BIC full of black ink beats the hell out of a Remington

Be careful! Mr. Ed might bite you on the nose

The medicine has some bugs in it

What does a sewing machine have to do with a clock anyway

Loose change in a ceramic oinker is just as good as a paycheck

If you dropped the homogenised don't seek counselling

This is the maximum pressure threshold for a biscuit

The death penalty was rather harsh punishment for Moggie's interest

That's just the sabertooth's mouthing off decreased by Darwinian domestication

Continuity was buggered for want of a better metal ring

What could be less complicated than fruit filled pastry

External to cubic cogitation

It's a feline nightie