The appalling clichés thread.

bigredshark · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:10

Feek said:
When I were a lad

Those were the days...

K1LLSW1TCH · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:11

When push comes to shove.

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. :confused:

Tobeornottobe · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:13

'Joined up thinking'. No idea what this means, politicians are using it more and more.

dangerstat · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:13

I'd buy that for a dollar

v0n · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:22

"the fact of the ma''a is..."

also "just to touch base", especially in office talk - I hear of meetings to touch base and I'm already soooooo looking forward to them...

footman · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:27

Tobeornottobe said:
'Joined up thinking'. No idea what this means, politicians are using it more and more.

You also get "blue sky thinking" and "joined up government".
For some reason "driving the business forwards" really ticks me off.

Neolink · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:28

"Swear to God..."

bigredshark · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:29

v0n said:
"the fact of the ma''a is..."

also "just to touch base", especially in office talk - I hear of meetings to touch base and I'm already soooooo looking forward to them...

Why don't you like it? What's the alternative - just to catch up? It's a slight americanism but there are far worse abuses than that...

Cosimo · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:32

For the record...... Ok, yours, mine, the one in the record book.

Macky · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:36

You know what I think? - Obviously not, I'm not a ****ing psychic!

Broadie · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:40

At the end of the day, to be honest with you I felt gutted, knowwhatImean? :mad:

Jono8 · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:40

"Do you know what i am saying?"

meghatronic · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:40

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That is most likely a nerves thing. A friend says "erm" a lot when giving talks, but never says it otherwise.

DB_SamX · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:49

bigredshark said:
Why don't you like it? What's the alternative - just to catch up? It's a slight americanism but there are far worse abuses than that...

What does "touch base" literally mean? Is it derived from baseball?

Cosimo · 17 Jan 2010 at 15:03

Have a good one....... sure, a good what?

knip · 17 Jan 2010 at 15:11

Networking

Deadbeat · 17 Jan 2010 at 15:13

It's always in the last place you look. ****ing duh - you're not gonna carry on looking for it once you found it, are you?

xander_uk2 · 17 Jan 2010 at 15:16

another day another dollar........wtf...
and they said blah blah blah blah (or dah dah dah dah)
at the end of the day
oh no you didn't

izzy eckerslike · 17 Jan 2010 at 15:19

At this moment in time I can't think of any

Cosimo · 17 Jan 2010 at 15:24

izzy eckerslike said:
At this moment in time I can't think of any

At this point in time..... I can't see one.