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>>>American sports announcers abuse the heck out of the word "situation." For instance, "That brings up a third down situation." Do you mean, "It's third down?"?!?!?!
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>>How about: "at the last minute the cornerback came in and broke up the play". Wow, that pass must have been really moving slow...
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>Well that's nothing on the ubiquity of "at the end of the day":
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>"They both went for the ball but, at the end of the day, the faster man won"
>"You can save for years but, at the end of the day, the wise investor comes off best"
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>How do you spell the onomatopea (sp?) of spitting at the expression's feet?
Probably spell it just the way it sounds <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
