The recent prospect of me attending a meeting reminded me of another of my critic's cliches-in-the-making. Well, it's a term I've used in other situations, especially professional, but it seems well suited to review use, too.
Bartleby would "prefer not to" ...
Examples: Boss: Will you be going to that marketing meeting today?
JAG: Bartleby.
If I weren't so averse to, ahem, verbing nouns, I might "bartleby that meeting," missing it out of personal preference.
Uses in the world of criticism are nearly endless.
Example: Assignments Editor: How would you like to review the new
Rush box set?
JAG: I'm afraid that's going to be a bartleby for me.
And, "The prospect of watching one more frame of Jim Carrey
makes me go all bartleby."
Now I need to get ready for work.
Definitely bartleby about it, though.
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