you may have your own bugbears about phrases that are used:-
"big ideas" how about just saying ideas afterall no-one is going to talk about small ideas so they must be big anyway.
"at this moment of time" hey that means now, one simple word .
"underscore" nope I underline
etc etc 8)
Going forward
ffs
How about "New and improved"...
FFS it's either one or the other.
blue sky thinking
horizon scanning
ducks in a row
at the end of the day
with all due respect
My favourite phrase is 'No offence intended but.......'.
Quote from: alexsam on September 08, 2015, 20:12:40
blue sky thinking
horizon scanning
ducks in a row
at the end of the day
with all due respect
Those last two were favourites of the one and only...Roy Keane in every awful interview he ever did. Ugh.
1 milllion percent...
Park the bus (and I'm afraid it's fans that use that phrase the most!
In other words your team have just been scored against - GET OVER IT!!!
'looking at the big picture'
"pushing the envelope"
what envelope & where's it being pushed to? ???
I've noticed 'it is what it is' has snuck in from across the pond.
What actually, does that mean? Is it another way of saying 'so be it'?
To me it just means it's something you can't change and have to live with.