Comments on: Instead of eliminating cliches, tweak them! https://www.publicationcoach.com/eliminating-cliches/ & Gray-Grant Communications Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:08:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/eliminating-cliches/#comment-1667 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:07:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=4974#comment-1667 In reply to Dave Carlson.

You know, I used to read The Economists for the photo captions. So clever! Some very smart writers and editors work for that publication.

]]> By: Dave Carlson https://www.publicationcoach.com/eliminating-cliches/#comment-1665 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:58:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=4974#comment-1665 Read the table of contents for any weekly edition of The Economist to find humorous twists on old cliches. Added to my hit list recently are over-used words and phrases. Some began working their way into my own conversations: “The truth is…” “Absolutely”. “Exactly”. Translate any of those to mean, “I was not listening to whatever you said.” Quickly becoming popular is “chipping away at the Fiscal Cliff”. I mentioned in a reply awhile ago, civics, civility, civil discourse, and rhetoric taking on new meanings. I caught variations of those by watching C-Span for five minutes yesterday.

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