From Stephen Mcilwaine:
In natural-disaster-prone Australia (”I love a sunburnt country
…” is our national poem) we can rely on at least one TV reporter
per bushfire or flood telling us, “Now begins the heartbreaking
task of cleaning up.”
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Banned for Life is devoted to those expressions so gratingly overused that they should be forever banned from the nation's news reports.
George Orwell put it best:
"Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."
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These are my most-loathed expressions:This site is about what not to write if you write news for a living. It's not about annoying expressions that crop up in everyday conversations.
If Katie Couric's saying it, please tell me about it. If it's your annoying brother-in-law, grit your teeth and be thankful half of all marriages end in divorce.
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