"George Orwell's advice from 1946 is still worth following: 'Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.'"

The most irritating cliches in English:

1.

At the end of the day

2.

Second place in the vote was shared by "At this moment in time" and the constant use of "like" as if it were a form of punctuation.

3.


With all due respect

The following terms also received multiple nominations:

24/7
absolutely
address the issue
around (in place of "about")
awesome
ballpark figure
basically
basis ("on a weekly basis" in place of "weekly" and so on)
bear with me
between a rock and a hard place
blue sky (thinking)
boggles the mind
bottom line
crack troops
diamond geezer
epicentre (used incorrectly)
glass half full (or half empty)
going forward
I hear what you're saying..
in terms of...
it's not rocket science
literally
move the goal-posts
ongoing
prioritise
pushing the envelope
singing from the same hymn sheet
the fact of the matter is
thinking outside the box
to be honest/to be honest with you/to be perfectly honest
touch base
up to (in place of "about")
value-added (in general use)


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What do you suggest? Not to use them?

What do you suggest? Not to use them?

It's almost impossible. Well, at least for me. Maybу one should try to use them as rarely as possible replacing such cliches with synonymic equivalents.

To be perfectly honest with you some of those sound alright to me!

Did someone wanna show off their knowledge of english cliches? Well done. Nice list, I must say. I, like another visitor of this thread don't get what is wrong with those?