how does one erupt into spontaneous elbow-claps if one has not sharpened one's saw/not had an aha-moment/light-bulb experience/paradigm shift?

ponder-point: what is an 'elbow clap'? does one bang one's elbows together? mine hurt. too bony. and the only sound produced are quiet ouches.
it is one of those institutional idiosyncrasies which get irritatingly popular amongst the worker ants, and become dangerously commonplace. it is like how a hurricane can never be anything but 'devastating' or a review can never be anything but 'rave' or an odour can never be anything but 'rank'........
my teeth are near-worn out from all the gnashing i make them do these days. some others i can't stand are;
paradigm shift (which happens to everyone every other split-second, this being a school for 'life work change' - we take our motto seriously, we do.)
aha moment (which, more often than not, is an OHO!moment or an OH YEAH???moment, or an OH!NO!moment in these parts)
sharpening the saw (all the better to cut each others' necks with? apart from our motto, we take steven covey very seriously too. perhaps more seriously than his wife or son or publisher or even his dog do.)
light-bulb experience (for the chronically dim-witted? one is expected to have one such 'experience' every day. all the energy i burn in getting those bulbs afflicker can probably light up the entire earth for a day or something.)