Okay, at risk of upsetting James McCreet (WM, June, Cut the Clichés), I’m going to use one here, so I’ll get it done right from the off. I might use others, who knows? On rare occasions a cliché is just right for a given situation, and better the devil you know than… Damn, there’s another one…
However, to the business in hand. I use the riding bike analogy, because in a recent library discussion, someone mentioned that as clichés go, riding a bike bears no comparison with writing because writing is a craft, unlike pedalling a bike, which isn’t.