Every dog has his day.

And evidently, so does every minuscule detail of modern society, including the cliché.

Not to beat around the bush about it; we’ll just come right out and tell you that, as hard as this fact may be to swallow, today is National Cliché Day.

Really, we’re not just yanking your chain. We wouldn’t pull your leg about something as serious as National Cliché Day.

In fact, the Daily Press has left no stone unturned to keep you up to date on this special day. Being in the business of piecing together words and phrases – and buying ink by the barrel – this is a day after our own hearts. Plus, writing about such important events is all in a day’s work around here.

But we’re not all talk and no action. We beat the streets to find some folks to speak their minds about National Cliché Day – to air their dirty laundry, so to speak.

“National Cliché Day?” asked Andy Jenson, before laughing so hard one would’ve thought that just the idea of a day dedicated to clichés was funnier than a barrel of monkeys. “Well, if that ain’t the cat’s meow!”

Jenson doesn’t have a “favorite” cliché, but there are a few he’d just as soon never hear again.

“I always hated the one, ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul,’” he said, followed by a few moments of awkward silence as everyone present tried to figure out what it is about that particular cliché that sticks in Jenson’s craw.

“What’s the matter, cat got your tongue?” he asked.

Marcus Jones has a least-favorite cliché, too – one he says he heard quite often this past summer.

“‘It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,’” Jones recited. “No kidding? The humidity? Hot is hot, it doesn’t matter what’s causing it. I don’t feel a damn bit cooler just because I’ve been informed by some meteorological genius that it’s the humidity making me hot, not the heat.”

Jones added however, that one cliché has always been a bit confusing for him.

“Is it ‘I could care less,’ or ‘I couldn’t care less’?” he asked, although he conceded that he could (or couldn’t) care less about the answer: He’d accept whichever ones means “less concern.”

“Because if you could care less, that means you’ve still got some concern about whatever, but if you couldn’t care less, you’ve already hit rock bottom, as far as concern is concerned.”