{"id":763,"date":"2008-11-12T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/cliches\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T16:32:28","slug":"cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"At the end of the day it\u2019s not rocket science"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of the day I personally think it’s not rocket science, and at this moment in time and with all due respect, it absolutely shouldn’t of been a 24\/7 nightmare that’s fairly unique.<\/p>\n

What on earth am I on about? Well the above sentence contains the top ten most overused phrases in English, according to this blog post<\/a>. The phrases are listed below in descending order of usage.<\/p>\n

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  1. At the end of the day<\/li>\n
  2. Fairly unique<\/li>\n
  3. I personally<\/li>\n
  4. At this moment in time<\/li>\n
  5. With all due respect<\/li>\n
  6. Absolutely<\/li>\n
  7. It’s a nightmare<\/li>\n
  8. Shouldn’t of (for shouldn\u2019t have)<\/li>\n
  9. 24\/7<\/li>\n
  10. It’s not rocket science<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These phrases all come from the Oxford English Corpus<\/a> and the list was compiled by scholars at Oxford University.<\/p>\n

    Do you use\/avoid these phrases? Are there other phrases that you think are overused?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At the end of the day I personally think it’s not rocket science, and at this moment in time and with all due respect, it absolutely shouldn’t of been a 24\/7 nightmare that’s fairly unique. What on earth am I on about? Well the above sentence contains the top ten most overused phrases in English, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}