Bull. It has everything to do with Sarah Palin in locations where the phrase was never used untill last fall.
I've got a phrase a poster here has used in 2009 that I'd like to nominate, as it's already the most hackneyed phrase this year: "installed black president." ? Talking points from FauxNews, perhaps? -- RR
It has to do with Sarah Palin around here. They said it at first to make fun of her, but now it's caught on and people are starting to say it more often. I've even noticed it on the BBS, people answering with "you betcha!" It's most certainly not a normal occurance around my area.
"Best Reviewed Movie". Only about ten years old, that phrase, to me, means the grammar and spelling in the reviews was excellent. Paragraphs are properly designated and all sentences complete. It does NOT mean the same as "most favorably reviewed movie." --Ted
Use of the suffix "-gate" to describe any scandal - any at all - other than Watergate itself, should have some kind of punishment such as death. Also, I do so fucking well hate it when sports teams bitch about a "curse" just because they don't win for a few decades. There is no curse. There is only TEAMS THAT SUCK.
I haven't read the thread yet, so these might be duplicates, but: "back in the day" - especially when used by a twenty-something to refer to the year before last "It's all good." - especially when delivered with that same dopey Beaky Buzzard amiability you hear in "Duhhh, yup! Yup!" "back to ground zero" - Do people know what the term 'ground zero' originally meant? (And no, I don't mean what happened in New York in 2001, horrible as that was.)
That's the key word for every election. Hell, I live in a state that's dominated by one party, and that party CELEBRATED doing nothing to close the session because doing something that turns out to be unpopular might get you voted out of office. They actually said that! And their reelection commercials are about how they'll bring change!!! There was a Cheers episode where a politician was at the bar during his campaign and Frasier kept bugging him to state what he meant by change. The politician continued to use his generic selling points and the crowd ate it up, pissing off Frasier even more because the politician said absolutely nothing.