…and the cliche was just right.
The author of this week’s “After Deadline” column may have been a little too hard on the lowly cliche. At least its use in journalism.
Idiomatic writing can be engaging. It’s down to earth and can help grab and keep a reader’s attention.
It takes a very good writer-editor, however, to know when enough is enough. Someone who knows the value of a cliche when used in the right place at the right time and in the right dosage. And who, by the same token, isn’t such a schoolmarm that every cliche gets deleted.
Since none of us are perfect, this underscores the importance of good, second-party editing. Someone more likely to spot Just Right.
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