[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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[Centurion2000]

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[supercat]

Many of these terms are pretty feeble; some are okay. A few seem downright reasonable, at least in some usages.

"Fell to his death" -- Not unreasonable, as it reasonably consisely makes clear that the fall as instantly fatal. "Fell and was killed" has no such implication; if one was e.g. pushed from a railway platform as a train approached it would be accurate to say the person "fell and was killed", but not that he "fell to his death".

"first leg of" -- What alternative words are as short as "leg"?

"for the nth time in as many days" -- Suggests a daily occurrence more clearly than e.g. "twice in two days" or "thrice in three days". Prevents misreading as "twice daily on each of two days, hence four times total".

[CounterCounterCulture]

That was a good read {hope that's not considered a "groaner"} ;-)

[HairOfTheDog]

So this guy just disapproves of interesting language of all kinds.

[BigWaveBetty]

Oh my! These are all the things that drive me nutty when watching the news!

The one they missed that really bugs me is, "The SUV drove off the bridge." Or, "A car doing 90 miles an hours evaded police through three counties."

Apparently somewhere in the world there are vehicles driving around all by themselves!

[Fintan]

Drat...I thought this was gonna be about sex.

[mountaineer]

I haven't used any of those groaners (at least, within recent memory).

[Lawgvr1955]

I always groan when I hear the terms "at the end of the day", "sea change" and "gravitas". Thanks to the DNC talking points for these groaners.