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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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The media minimizes the Islamic threat.
To: ricks_place
Ban “on average” and “uva” as in “that big uva tree”.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:18:40 AM PST
by
RoadTest
(Free Compean and Ramos now! Then exonerate them. Then shame their persecutors!)
To: ricks_place; mikrofon; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; dead; dighton
Sports talk cliche of the year: "do their due diligence."
But that's just how I roll.
To: ricks_place
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:19:23 AM PST
by
null and void
(Don't taunt the tiger...)
To: RoadTest
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:19:57 AM PST
by
RoadTest
(Free Compean and Ramos now! Then exonerate them. Then shame their persecutors!)
To: ricks_place
I nominate “fire in the belly”.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:21:27 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
To: ricks_place
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:21:35 AM PST
by
dakine
To: ricks_place
The media minimizes the Islamic threat DING DING DING!!! FreeRepublic non-sequitur of the day!
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:21:46 AM PST
by
martin gibson
("I care not what course others may take, but as for myself, give me Ralph Stanley or give me death")
To: ricks_place
Overdone. Stylistic. Device.
To: All
How can we forget “At the end of the day....” as part of this list?
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:22:44 AM PST
by
awakened
(Remember -- There are no dead atheists.)
To: SlowBoat407
Another phrase I don’t want to see carried over into 2008:
“I’m Hillary Clinton, and I approved this message”.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:23:01 AM PST
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SlowBoat407
(Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
To: null and void
To: ricks_place
Oh snap!
(Think I might if I hear it again)
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:23:25 AM PST
by
Dysart
To: awakened
How can we forget “At the end of the day....” as part of this list? I didn't. See tagline on #3.
But "at the end of the day" is so 2006.
To: ricks_place
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:25:36 AM PST
by
Lexington Green
(There ain't no news in the news no more.)
To: SlowBoat407
I nominate “fire in the belly”.I'll second that! It's this election cycle's gravitas.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:26:32 AM PST
by
SuziQ
To: ricks_place
I agree that “surge” is overused. I have never seen this word being used so extensively and in all imaginable contexts since January 2007.
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:26:58 AM PST
by
SolidWood
(Al Gore: "I have never heard of this, but I think it is a very good idea,")
To: Charles Henrickson
“at the end of the day” is the new “”bottom line”
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posted on
12/31/2007 8:27:01 AM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(Just how will wrecking the U.S. economy save the planet?)
To: Charles Henrickson
Can’t stand the sports announcers describing a player’s “skill set”. And the Entertainment Tonight crowd gushing over the latest Hollywood “baby bump” is going to make me kill myself if I hear it one more time (my wife watches that junk, and I’m forced to sit through it too much!).
To: SlowBoat407
When all is said and done.
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