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citymancs => off topic => Topic started by: zacc on September 08, 2015, 00:00:28

Title: curmudgeon time
Post by: zacc on September 08, 2015, 00:00:28
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)
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: nimrod on September 08, 2015, 02:54:15
Going forward

ffs
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: BongoBlue on September 08, 2015, 17:49:29
How about "New and improved"...

FFS it's either one or the other.
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: 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
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: gavin on September 08, 2015, 23:15:05
My favourite phrase is 'No offence intended but.......'.
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: BongoBlue on September 10, 2015, 16:10:47
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.
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: Swiss on September 10, 2015, 20:50:08
1 milllion percent...
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: Dizzy on September 16, 2015, 19:16:07
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!!!
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: nimrod on September 16, 2015, 21:55:48
'looking at the big picture'
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: zacc on September 26, 2015, 23:18:13
"pushing the envelope"
what envelope & where's it being pushed to?  ???
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: Dizzy on October 11, 2015, 22:09:50
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'?
Title: Re: curmudgeon time
Post by: gavin on October 11, 2015, 22:29:57
To me it just means it's something you can't change and have to live with.