Cliché: couldn't hit the broad side of a barn

Meaning: lousy aim. Use examples.
Rewrite 1: couldn’t hit the wide side of a broad barn
Rewrite 2: couldn’t find the Great Wall of China if you were standing right next to it
Rewrite 3: couldn’t hit a bull’s eye a mile across
Rewrite 4: couldn’t hit a turkey the size of Texas

Comment: You’d have to have pretty bad aim if you couldn’t hit any of these. What else would make a hard target to miss?

More reading about clichés
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• 24/7 With the Cliché Expert: “Between 1935 and 1952, the humorist Frank Sullivan wrote a series of essays for The New Yorker in which Mr. Arbuthnot, the cliche expert, testified on the trite expressions and hackneyed phrases of the day.”

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