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Let’s have a selection of your least favourite clichés. Mine has to be ‘rollercoaster’. I have nothing against the devices themselves, but oh, how I wish that the word could be bleeped out every time it was used as an analogy by an interviewee or his inquisitor. I have no idea how many times it was used in the media during the Olympics, but I’d be surprised if the total was anything under three figures.
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Every time I hear “For Arguments Sake” its grit your teeth time. If it’s your opinion it’s not needed…if it’s not your opinion, why bring it up in the first placein the first place.
OOPS….thought i had that habit of repeating myself repeating myself under control under control
It’s not quite a cliche, I suppose, but I get really aggravated by the incorrect use of ‘literally’ when they mean ‘figuratively’.
How about people who don’t know that ‘criteria’ is a plural?
Or telling us how many ‘stadiums’ are in use rather than ‘stadia’? It’s all pretty basic stuff and just enough to make you despair.
Or ‘How pleased/happy/esctatic etc are you?’ That’s another of my pet hates.
During the Olympics a presenter asked the clay pigeon shooter’s dad , ‘How proud are you of your son?’ He replied, ‘I’m proud enough.’ The interviewer didn’t know where to go from there.
How about ‘singing from the same hymn sheet’?. When did that last happen really? Or ‘Blue Sky Thinking’ or any of the other c**p that is used whenever we are ‘team-building’ or ‘brain-storming’ or whatever is the PC correct term these days?
Or golf commentators, even those in their 80s, who have never learned how to pronounce ‘Ballesteros’, or who don’t care to often him that courtesy, even though he’s dead.