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"Perfect storm" of cliches make bad English list
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| 12/31/07
| Andrew Stern
Posted on 12/31/2007 8:13:17 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: Charles Henrickson
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:37:05 AM PST
by
RolandBurnam
(get the illegals the hell out of my country.)
To: Charles Henrickson
Worst football cliche’—
“He’s running down hill”
What the ______ does that mean? They are playing on the side of a hill??? IN HE 2ND QUARTER, WILL THE OTHER TEAM GET TO GO “DOWN HILL” ???
Hey, Madden, Aikman, and all you other idiots!!!! THERE’S NO DOWNHILL ON A FOOTBALL FIELD!!!!
42
posted on
12/31/2007 8:37:31 AM PST
by
San Jacinto
(Three dangers to guard against: Osama, Obama, and Chelsea's Momma!!!)
To: ricks_place
Please ban the phrases "that being said" and "having said that"!
What is wrong with using the single word ... But?
43
posted on
12/31/2007 8:37:42 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
"put our players in the best position to succeed" = ManagerSpeak for "why I don't play the scrubs"
"give us a chance to win" = "I'm a wussy pitcher who doesn't even think about a complete game and wanting to WIN the game, I just want to throw my 100 pitches and get into the 7th."
To: ricks_place
Athletic cliche that I despise - the color commentator sagely observing that a team or a player needs to find their “rhythm” - well duh - if you repeatedly throw 100 mph fastballs on the corners of the plate you’ll be successful or if you repeatedly throw the ball just over the shoulder of the WR streaking down the sideline.
To: ricks_place
One of my biggest pet peeves is that the term “gender,” once confined to the the world of linguistics, seems to be replacing ‘sex.”
To: Charles Henrickson
When all is said and done....
...a lot more is said than done.
47
posted on
12/31/2007 8:38:24 AM PST
by
null and void
(Don't taunt the tiger...)
To: ricks_place
To: San Jacinto
“He’s running down hill” Or "north to south."
To: ricks_place
“cachet” is getting some cachet, especially in places like Target
50
posted on
12/31/2007 8:38:57 AM PST
by
gusopol3
To: Zuben Elgenubi
51
posted on
12/31/2007 8:39:16 AM PST
by
null and void
(Don't taunt the tiger...)
To: Charles Henrickson
But "at the end of the day" is so 2006.
2007 is the new 2006.
52
posted on
12/31/2007 8:39:19 AM PST
by
SpinnerWebb
(Islam ... If you can't join them, beat them.)
To: mossyoaks; ricks_place
I’m glad someone submitted, “It is what it is”. Ugh! That one makes me shudder as well.
53
posted on
12/31/2007 8:39:44 AM PST
by
Allegra
(That midget hates it when I do that.)
To: Charles Henrickson; SlowBoat407
When all is said and done, “at the end of the day” is basically the new “bottom line”.
54
posted on
12/31/2007 8:39:50 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
To: ricks_place
Sports announcers were urged to drop "throw under the bus" when assigning blame to a player. "It is a call for the media to start issuing a thesaurus to everyone in front of a camera," I thought they already pulled out the pages looking for other ways to say "beat", as in "Team X _______ Team Y"...
55
posted on
12/31/2007 8:40:17 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Red_Devil 232
“in lieu of” in lieu of “instead of”
56
posted on
12/31/2007 8:40:36 AM PST
by
gusopol3
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
“Hasn’t lost his fastball,” in non-baseball contexts.
To: ricks_place
I continue to be amazed at the never ending trivialization of “Amazing”.
58
posted on
12/31/2007 8:41:05 AM PST
by
drc43
(Defeat is slipping from our grasp... Nancy Pelosi)
To: Fiji Hill
That is one of mine as well. Words have a gender. Persons have a sex.
L
59
posted on
12/31/2007 8:42:00 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Pimping my blog: http://lurkerslair-lurker.blogspot.com/)
To: drc43
...and everyone is a “hero”.
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