Thrown under the bus - Cliche ?
 

It is really getting over used. I watching talking heads and EVERYONE is being thrown under the bus.

I think it is reaching Cliche status.

It was over used 3 yrs ago.

So what you're saying is that Thrown Under the Bus has Jumped the Shark.

It seems as old as the hills

You just threw "threw under the bus", under the bus!

I put it in as a suggestion

True SmileWavy

it's an over-used narrative, that's for sure

What a crock of shyte! This thread is useless without pictures of people and said bus.

Pwned, WIN, Fail, REALY REALLY WANT, N00B, _____ Cat Sez, motivational posters, matte black cars....they're all played out.

Imagine a tatoo of tire tracks on your back! That would be a living cliche...

"Fail" is my pet peeve. In fact, I'm really sick of verbs and nouns swapping places. My company uses "position" as a verb in just about every internal email.

Funny.

An email chain at work recently was doing some finger pointing on who was responsible for an item, and it was mistakenly assigned in the email to one manager when we all really knew it was someone else's.

I BCC'd the email to a colleague with a picture attached of a bus with an arrow pointing under it.

Good one! :D

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/4281522-post26.html

Really?

Sorry, that is my pet peeve.

It's pretty un-clever but that covers most of TV, doesn't it?

My brother was telling me a story recently about being "sold down the river" by someone. That one is a lot more tried and true, IMO.

I've been thrown under the short bus...

My son rides the short bus... and loves it... I would hate for him to be thrown under it. :D

Fixed it.

When expressions get used by the old farts like pwd72s and me, they are beyond cliché.

"Thrown under the bus" is so last Tuesday...

Are you kidding, Its the cats ass of cliches

what about when someone says "coming down the pike" wouldn't it be PIPE???

what comes down a pike? unless someone is doing something fishy.
I've heard of a head on a pike, maybe that's what is sliding down.

And i'm sick of hearing "in this economy"

hijack over

Turnpike. Down the Pike, you Piker.

Among building trades unions, "thrown under the bus" will never be abandoned as cliche. It is their main method of accomplishing something. Seriously. No group of organizations is more vicious than building trades unions.

It goes either way anymore. Not everyone lives near a "turnpike" and therefore does not know of the original reference. Some even say "pipeline."

turnpike???
we call them freeways/highways/expressways out here on the left coast

"Thrown under the bus" has "jumped the shark" (overused to the n'th degree)