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To: Xenalyte; JennysCool; JRios1968; TheMom; Eaker; humblegunner; eastforker; Tijeras_Slim; ...

Personally, I’d like to see the phrase “It is what it is” go away. For some reason, that one really grates on me.


2 posted on 12/31/2008 1:20:17 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Allegra
How about :

"Enough is enough."

What the heck does that mean?

5 posted on 12/31/2008 1:32:22 AM PST by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: Allegra

How else would you express that very under-appreciated truth?


7 posted on 12/31/2008 2:38:41 AM PST by ExGeeEye (COTUS 2A should be the USA's ONLY gun law.)
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To: Allegra
Among my many unfavorites that should disappear:

...you know... and no way.

13 posted on 12/31/2008 4:48:44 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Allegra
I’d like to see the phrase “It is what it is” go away

Origin, according to Safire:

24 posted on 12/31/2008 6:09:53 AM PST by bvw
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To: Allegra

“It is what it is” is a Pulitzer Prize, and Irish, so it should stay; it’s how we CIA* view a quandary.
How about dumping “grates on me” instead?
*CIA=Certified Irish American


34 posted on 12/31/2008 9:33:08 AM PST by Texas_JohnNY
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