Banished Words 2003

Lake Superior State University ^ | 01/01/03 | Tom Pink

[Commiewatcher]

We could do without hearing:

WORKING FAMILIES

TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH

[Ben Chad]

LOOK!

LIKE, ya know?

[IronJack]

My favorite? "The problem being is ..."

It's as though the speaker thinks "problem being" is a single nominative, one that requires an additional verb. "Being" IS the verb. Keep piling them on and the syntactical axles will break.

[Ben Chad]

FALSE START, PRIOR TO THE SNAP, #88...

[mountaineer]

Let's continue on with another of my favorite over-used cliches, fly over country. That must be where Joe Six-Pack lives (with apologies to the freeper by that name).

[Timesink]

Here's a phrase I'd like to see banished: "INEVITABLE HILLARY PRESIDENCY." Please.

[jigsaw]

The truth of the matter is .......

Agh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, Butthead. I'd rather hear a lie. Sheesh!

Although, whenever any politician or news reader states, "The truth of the matter is...," I know I 'm going to hear a lie.

[Agog]

"at the end of the day"

That one was retired in 1998, I believe.

[clintonh8r]

Here's another one I hate: "Calls it quits", especially when used in the description of the resignation or retirement of a distinguished person, as in, "Today noted cardiac surgeon Dr. Michel DeBakey called it quits....." The local TV newsies just can't seem to resist using this repulsive phrase ad nauseum.

[Jack Wilson]

NEAR MISS - they usually mean a 'near collision'. A 'near miss' would be when you actually collide...

[ConservativeLawyer]

Also being discussed OVER HERE

Good stuff on both threads.

[BradyLS]

Oh, "TO BE SURE!"

[BradyLS]

Oh, yeah! "TO THE PHONES!"

...and after that, to the Batmobile!

[BradyLS]

Funny!