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olivelove

(43 posts) Tue May 21, 2013, 09:41 PM May 2013

"At the end of the day"

"the bottom line is" "the fact of the matter" "the honest truth" these cliches along with a few others are constantly being repeated in the media. I'm curious as to why. I would guess that one reason is that by using any of these cliches before making a statement, they serve to pre-legitimize the statement to follow. "The truth of the matter is............." how can I be wrong when truth is truth.

Or is it merely the robot monkey that must repeat?

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"At the end of the day" (Original Post) olivelove May 2013 OP

I blame bad writing more than anything, but there is likely some truth to your point... Demo_Chris May 2013 #1

Your post has jumped the bus and must be thrown under the shark tularetom May 2013 #2

Demo_Chris

(6,234 posts)

1. I blame bad writing more than anything, but there is likely some truth to your point...

Reply to olivelove (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2013, 09:45 PM

May 2013

...and I will resist the temptation to add any of these to my post.

It was hard.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)

2. Your post has jumped the bus and must be thrown under the shark

Reply to olivelove (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2013, 10:14 PM

May 2013

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