I would make it illegal to use clichés when speaking or writing. It's such a lazy way to express yourself. Find a different way to say your thoughts. I've heard or read all these in the last two weeks:
"Put on your big-girl panties."
"Go with the flow."
"She don't have no filter."
"The apple don't fall far from the tree."
"Get our ducks in a row."
"Let's get on the same page." (I heard this at almost every teacher meeting.)
"At the end of the day..."
"Think outside the box."
"He was thrown under the bus."
"I just threw up in my mouth a little."
I understand that we're all lazy occasionally, and will say clichés and overused words out of habit, but I think most people who use them think they are being clever and cute. My students say the same phrases they've heard their parents say, and I try to show them it's neither intelligent nor creative to repeat the same old boring chaff over and over. I can tell them stuff like that, but I can't tell adults.
I would make clichés illegal such that one would be fined for each infraction. I tire very quickly of repetition though, in every form, so maybe it's just I who screams internally every time I hear, "Well, that's like the pot calling the kettle black!" followed by hearty laughter at their own cleverness.
Also, I would make long story-telling punishable by death. As my dad used to say when someone started a story, "Tell me the ending, then I'll tell you whether I want to hear the rest or not." How is it that adults can tell the longest, boringest, most detailed stories and not know they're boring? I try not to talk a lot around people. Some of my friends think I'm shy or "quiet," but, no, I'm just trying not to be a bore. If it were illegal, maybe I would be able to eat lunch with coworkers or say hello to the Walmart cashier without hearing a story which starts before Christ was born and ends in 2019.
Now, most people would end this with, "Rant over," but that's a cliché. Stop saying it! I'll just stop typing and hope you'll stop repeating things even if it's legal.