Not to beat a dead horse, but we all should avoid cliches like the plague and fight them tooth and nail lest our prose be flat as a pancake.
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The Osgood of the movie was Joe E . Brown, a supporting player billed sixth in the credits, his face flat as a pancake, lips a pencil line of deadpan merriment.
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The Nurse enters carrying the body of the Young Girl, which hits the ground and is crushed flat as a pancake . The Nurse s chest has become completely flat as well.
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Last year we were coming off a disappointing loss against Miami and we were just flat as a pancake ( against BC . ) But nobody was going to out-effort us on the field.
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The " bad " sister, Myra, sometimes described as " the whore of Babylon " ( remember, this takes place on Long Island ), is flat as a pancake.
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"Now that economic growth is as flat as a pancake, we'll have to be more modest, " he said in an interview with the Dutch daily De Telegraaf published Thursday.
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Dudley the Dragon, a 60-foot replica of the character from the children's show on PBS, is lying flat as a pancake on a tarp spread across Broadway, ready to be inflated.
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But the best evidence that the governor is having more than the standard near-death experience that every front-runner must endure is the lack of response to his message, which for the moment is flat as a pancake.
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The island is so barren, it makes the rockiest stretches of the Maine coast seem like a jungle, for one thing, and is flat as a pancake and surrounded most of the year by equally flat stretches of pack ice.
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The cartoon is set in 1492, when astronomers thought " the world was flat as a pancake . " Porky Pig ( as Christopher Columbus ) proposes to Queen Isabella of Spain to travel the world and prove that it is not flat.
