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Headline: "Seven people were mown down in Main Street when a car ploughed through a red light"
If I could, I'd strangle people who write/read such lines. Cars can't plough and people aren't hay. Last edited by BetterRed; 01-30-2020 at 04:00 PM. |
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Besides, there was no stipulation that I be grammatically correct in my reasons for phrase-hating ![]() Last edited by DiapDealer; 01-30-2020 at 04:32 PM. |
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Sportscasters who insist on saying, "he left his feet." And you know there's a bunch of you.
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It's fun to go through their archives and remember overused words and phrases from the previous years:
https://www.lssu.edu/banished-words-...-list-archive/ The home page is also good fun. |
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You kids get off my lawn!
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Or even a way to try to get someone to stop griping about something that can't be changed. |
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One I hear alot is "he did his best". Generally, the context is in something having not gone well (maybe a little, maybe a lot).
I don't know anyone who does their best all the time. We do what we do. (That phrase might annoy people as much as "it is what it is"). It can't be changed. If we were stupid (or lazy or rude or whatever), we can only hope we'll learn from it. Last edited by FizzyWater; 01-30-2020 at 08:16 PM. |
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Ticats win 4th straight
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I remember Ross Perot reactivating his campaign. It didn't go well, though.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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nom nom nom. Need I say more?
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I can’t abide “to reach out”. It is such a mealy-mouthed and long winded way of saying “to contact”. It implies some subtlety or distinction in the contact that is not warranted. So you did not phone someone, or email them, or just plain spoke them, no you “reached out”. Ugh.
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If my actions contributed in any way to those unfortunate circumstances, then I apologize.
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