>>>>I don't see how it's pedantic to hate cliches, such as "at the end of the day", "basically", "It's not rocket science", "Maker no mistake", "sooner rather than later", et al.
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>>>Years ago, we bought Solomon a t-shirt that shows a bunch of formulas and says "Hey, this is rocket science." Looks like this may be it:
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>>>http://www.scienceartandmore.com/hey---thisisrocketscience-t-shirtsizelarge.aspx
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>>>Tamar
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>>Good one!
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>>I come from the city of Brighton & Hove, originally 2 towns abutting on the S coast. The west, Hove end is very snobbish and, as brighton is best known, when people ask them if they're from Brighton they say, "No, Hove actually". This has become a derisive cliche.
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>>Check out how many citations:
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>>http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hove+actually&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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>>I live in the quieter east end of the city, in Kemptown. One of the pubs there had "No, Kemptown actually" T-shirts made as a skit.
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>>Oh, and another cliche that REALLY bugs me is when someone is surprised and they say "I'm literally speechless" and then go on to gab incessantly (quite often about how they're still literally speechless).
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>I hate that cliche where people go on about cliches because they have nothing better to do :-)

But, at the end of the day, if they use different wording each time, it can't be a cliche.