What cliches, hackneyed phrases make you cringe?

[NNadir]

33. In terms of cliches in writing and speaking, I've been there, done that even when thinking...

...outside of the box, after a fashion, but not wanting to air my dirty laundry, I've bent over backwards to make my use of cliches to be the best thing since sliced bread, you can bet your bottom dollar - not to beat around the bush - that I should be given the benefit of the doubt since I know that I'm between a rock and a hard place when it comes to letting sleeping dogs lie, needless to say, when I try to show people that I'm a real Einstein, even if my rags to riches story hasn't actually lead me to being rich and famous, which is par for the course, of course, since I lie like a rug even if actually I am the salt of the earth but am still likely to reap what I sow, and I think that anyone trying to shoot the breeze with me will not see eye to eye with me about whether or not I am as sharp as a tack, even if it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, the fact is that I'll have to sink or swim with my attempt to share the unvarnished truth about my whole ball of wax and getting me to upset the apple cart on this practice will end up being an exercise in spinning my wheels in this day and age, it's not you, it's me, and I guess I should just throw in the towel because it's the same old story if I take the plunge on this task of not paving the road to hell with good intentions, which probably rings a bell with you, I'm on a roll here and I may have missed the boat on this task of not using cliches.

It is what it is.