Bling is the ubiquitous word/phrase of the moment - I heard it on morning radio yesterday, a sure sign. It seemed new and fresh a month ago and now I'm tripping over it everywhere - presumeably it's capturing something of the imagination of the moment. And in another month or so it will have gone. It has something both hopeful and cynical about it all at once.
Previous words/phrases of the moment have been segue, "in the same ballpark", "singing off the same page" and "it's not rocket science"
Does anybody else have any other words or phrases that have soared briefly then fallen from grace?
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"We have to draw a line in the sand."
I used to work for an IT sector Ms Malaprop, who instead of "raising the bar" or "pushing the envelope" asked us once to "raise the envelope".
The worst are those which mangle perfectly innoncent words.
That one has kind of stuck. At the end of who's day is what I want to ask.
I heard this on a business program this morning:
" in the worst case scenario at the end of the day"
I did want to add "whatever" and "whatnot" as words currently doing the rounds a little too often.
I've come across "staunch" and "wee" in NZ and rather like them. It's tipping the hat to the Scottish heritage. And combined have a strong NZ sense of being small but tough. In our "Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli" Leon wrote that the Kiwi's were strong in defense and the Aussies good on the offensive - though I wouldn't want to push that comparison very far. "Staunch" would suit a defensive strategy.
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