by Englishman 4 Replies latest jw friends
"At the end of the day" was recently voted by Brits as being the most banal and irritating cliche in the English language. It's much easier just to say "Ultimately" apparently.
My most disliked cliche is "Let me put it this way".
When I was in the sales business it was "Not at this moment in time".
I wonder why we use cliches? Is it a sort of safety thing, something to hide behind?
Which cliches do you use?
Which ones really get on your nerves?
Englishman.
What about the WTS's use of "behooves"??
Everything behooved us to do something or other.
After coming into contact with a number of our American cousins and being continually asked to explain certain phrases, I've come to realise how many cliches and turns of phrase we use.
Ironically, trying to work out what some of them fully mean, or how we arrived at them, has been a rite of passage in it's own right.
At the end of the day, all things being equal, if you know what I mean?
LT:
At the end of the day, the bottom line is that it behooves you to learn the pure language etc etc etc
lol @ Ozzie
I "appreciate" that! lol
J
