Well, I don't think there's much disagreement that "at least it'll be mild"
wins January's cliché of the month competition.

Can I propose we identify a cliché of the month every month this year,
then in December vote for the winner, and make an official award to
the most frequent perpetrator. What we need to do, although there's
no urgency, is to identify an appropriate prize.

Philip Eden

"The honorable gentleman's speech was a disgrace; clitch after
clitch after clitch ..." attrib. Ernest Bevin