{"id":2685,"date":"2008-11-21T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2008-11-20T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T02:13:18","slug":"most-hated-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/most-hated-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Hated Cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks back, I posted a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/top-10-most-irritating-phrases\/\" target=\"_self\">Ten Most Irritating Phrases<\/a>, here is another list of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/7733264.stm\" target=\"_self\">Hated Cliches <\/a>from the BBC. Click through to read the rest.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. &#8220;basically&#8221;. I even manage to irritate myself by using it, although I do try not to.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;To be fair&#8221; is the most awful thing anybody can ever say, particularly since it is invariably followed by a biased and utterly unfair comment.<br \/>\n3. My most hated expression has to be &#8220;to be honest&#8221;. What does it mean? Are you normally dishonest then?<br \/>\n4. It has to be &#8220;going forward&#8221;, used by business people\/politicians, as in: &#8220;Going forward, we need to do&#8230;X.&#8221; Since time is irreversible, it&#8217;s totally unnecessary. No one experiences life &#8220;going backward&#8221;.<br \/>\n5. As far as irritating cliches go, the phrase &#8220;the fact of the matter is&#8221; must top the list. The fact of the matter is, that it rarely is the actual fact of the matter. It is usually just the speaker&#8217;s own opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid<\/strong>.&#8221; &#8211;Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks back, I posted a link to the Ten Most Irritating Phrases, here is another list of Hated Cliches from the BBC. Click through to read the rest. 1. &#8220;basically&#8221;. I even manage to irritate myself by using it, although I do try not to. 2. &#8220;To be fair&#8221; is the most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","wpcat-54-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-Hj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}