Please, please read this hilarious piece from The Onion on our dwindling supply of cliches; the lede:
A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.
I even forgive them for using lingual instead of lingustic.
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