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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs it just me, or is anyone else getting sick to death of the phrase "doubling down"?
It seems to be popping up everywhere.
How much money is KFC throwing into these campaigns, that every ten minutes a campaign spokesperson has to advertise for this abomination?
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Watch for it to be at the top of those "2012 phrases to retire" lists, come NYE.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,746 posts)The one that makes me cringe each time I hear it is: "At the end of the day." Stop, please stop.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Yes, I hate "at the end of the day" almost as much as the completely useless "moving forward". MF is often used thusly:
"Moving forward, I'd like to focus our attention on the blah blah blah...", which pretty much means:
"As time continues to elapse like it always has and always will, irrespective of our personal wishes, I'd like to focus our attention on blah...".
Of course, if you find some way to stop moving forward, you're running a real danger of not getting to the end of the day.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)"our attention." "I'd like to focus on . . ." is just fine
Rambis
(7,774 posts)You fucked up, you know you fucked up, now you have to make it look like you know meant to fuck up. It is very transparent everyone knows you have shit the bed. Give it up!
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)"Game changer" or anything with *gate.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Why does no one ever "bring their intramural game"?
JBoy
(8,021 posts)Now that phrase annoys me. Of course "it is what it is". Otherwise it would be something else!
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)*ducking, fleeing*
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Double portions?
I'm confused
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)You can double your bet in certain circumstances (and generally should, if your initial cards add up to 10 or 11).
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Maybe "doubling down with a 16 would" make some sense- like "born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple."
But double down in reference to basic commentary bugs me. It's so vague that all commentators seem to use it to simply cast a negative light on something that was repeated.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)And now I've begun to see tripling down.
And since I see it as a phrase applied to moronic republicans who continue to spew garbage without apology, I never have to wonder who is doubling down (it's a RWer) or on what (whatever it is, they are wrong).
But it's definitely one of those phrases that needs to go.
bocaoma
(23 posts)i do like characterizing the Republitards as slack-jawed, knuckle draggers.......
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)Just now, I probably doubled-down on teh stoopid with a new post on GD, but I'm in a fairly happy mood.
Phentex
(16,330 posts)I mean, there ARE still soccer moms but apparently they aren't swaying the vote.
JI7
(89,173 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)I was thinking about "doubling down" just this morning over a few shots of Bourbon (post-debate blues). I was thinking the same as you.
But, at the End of the Day, It is what It is.
byeya
(2,842 posts)Poiuyt
(18,087 posts)"Together, we can solve all the world's problems."
It seems like every nonprofit commercial has a sentence in there that begins with "Together." What a cliche!