google search on "give up the veneer" yields only two hits, but the second is funny, if you find fortuitous juxtapositions funny. Challenge: find another "cliche clash".
no no no no no!fancybredJanuary 21 2005, 04:03:19 UTC
that's not what I meant, self_referent. But it's really hard to find more examples, especially because search engines eliminate punctuation... It might be time to give up and dinner eat. My hat I like.
Re: no no no no no!fancybredJanuary 21 2005, 06:15:26 UTC
separated by punctuation is what I was looking for. I think you were misled because "give up the veneer" is sort of odd usage, maybe not a real cliche, as is witnessed by its only having one real google hit (and one fortuitous one). I guess it's a corruption of "give up the facade"?
But anyways it is very hard to google these suckers.
Re: no no no no no!self_referentJanuary 21 2005, 05:13:23 UTC
Or perhaps you also wanted the involved cliches to actually be used as themselves, instead of combined or used accidentally, etc.? This would make things harder, and it holds in your original example but not in your second one.
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I actually found another link, too, but it was a bit tawdry.
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The others were combinations of cliches, just not separated by punctuation.
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But anyways it is very hard to google these suckers.
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