Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaazing!

Everyone seems to have been "on a journey" these days.

"to die for" might seem just fine to young people!

Just let 'em wait till they're in their seventies!

"Ball-park figure" NO!! I want an estimate!

Oh and "passion" - often in the same sentence as "journey" and like finger nails on a blackboard!

This morning a chap being interviewed on Breakfast about the floods talked about "as the days move forward". He also managed to come up with "no two floods are different" which I think is the exact opposite of what he meant to say.

"Up coming" I hate, and "grow" used instead of increase. But most of all - "lessons will be learned", but they never are. Grrrr!

"Heads will roll" - maybe, but if they do they roll with a nice golden handshake.

What a picture that conjures up, anno! But I agree, the majority of them walk away amply rewarded for 'falling on their sword'....

Great mixture of metaphors, isn't it? Heads rolling, golden handshakes and falling on swords! What next?

Lessons will be learned.

Perhaps those who wish to avoid falling on their sword or their heads rolling – although probably not the golden handshake or golden goodbye – should step aside.

To "spend more time with their family", no doubt!

Blue sky thinking! (I've no idea what that means)

Generally the more Z List the celebrity the more often the dreaded Journey is dragged up. Some of them could have travelled several times round the world with the amount of Journeying recording one album has required! The minute someone talks about lessons being learned you know they never will be and the latest disaster will be glossed over and forgotten.
The one I'm really hating at the moment is Moving Forward which is shoved into any statement, whether it makes any sense or not.

I hate "draw a line in the sand". What a pointless thing to do unless the sea that the sand is bordering is non-tidal.

Ah we'll, at the end of the day.........
It's night.

People being interviewed on TV answer 'absolutely' instead of plain old 'yes',constantly.

'Look...' prefaces nearly every answer a politician gives to a question in a tv interview.

Politicians always say:

"Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again ........."

What about "iconic" which drives me to fits of gibbering?

Just heard David Cameron using 'step change'. Is this the same as a 'sea change'. Oh, and he's also spoken about 'crossing the Rubicon'.

Ed Milliband, at the end of a refreshingly cliché-free speech, spoiled it by referring to the 'last chance saloon'. Oh dear!

"Closure" - especially when used after a tragic death. Implies there's a point at which sadness is entirely erased.

Oh no! It's more about acceptance isn't it? Sadness goes on.

Well said, jings