At the end of the day tops cliche list

[JoFerret]

All the journalistic tired and trite:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=716&e=8&u=/ap/20040324/ap_on_re_eu/cliches



At the end of the day, it's the most irritating cliche in the English language. So says the Plain English Campaign which said the abused and overused phrase was first in a poll of most annoying cliches.

Second place went to "at this moment in time," and third to the constant use of "like," as if it were a form of punctuation. "With all due respect" came fourth.


"When readers or listeners come across these tired expressions, they start tuning out and completely miss the message — assuming there is one," said Plain English Campaign spokesman John Lister.


"Using these terms in daily business is about as professional as wearing a novelty tie or having a wacky ring-tone on your phone."


Lister said people should follow the 1946 advice of writer George Orwell: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."
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We should start a list of Bush admin cliches. If we could find the resolve (yuk)

[Bertha Venation]

1. my boss uses "at the end of the day" several times daily

It irritates me to no end. And she is a well-educated, well-read, and usually well-spoken woman. :eyes:

[livetohike]

2. LOL

I had an employee who probably said those same words ten times a day. It made me laugh, but I never told her how it drove me crazy!

[Jim__]

3. Is "it doesn't work" a cliche?

Because I can't get your link to work. :)

[alonso_quijano]

4. "the fact of the matter is..."

Whenever you hear a member of the pundit caste mouth this gem on any of the cable-shill-media-neocon-whore "news" programs, you can be certain that what comes next bears as much resemblance to the truth as whatever Rush told his doctors about his "back pain," wink, wink.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Nice little segment on NPR today about it

It was great! Very funny, as a couple people hammered on and about as to why people use these terms.