Ron Rosenbaum's "The Catchphrase of the Decade" discusses a host of clichés. Some of them still feel pretty good, but others have definitely seen happier days. My faves:
- banality of evil
- market research
- ecosystem (esp. when applied to unnatural phenomena)
- vote off the island
- -gate
- "Move along"
- 15 minutes of fame
- drill down
- the takeaway
- "What he said"
- "What planet are you from?"
- work-around
- game-changer
- outside the box
- in the weeds
- 2.0 (and 3.0)
- at the end of the day
- push-back
- "And your point is?"
- having said that
Roll the dice, string a few together, and you've got the punch line of a presentation, e.g., "At the end of the day, our market research indicates that the game-changer for this product's ecosystem is an outside-the-box work-around." Sorry about that ...
(cf. AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs (2002-08-28), ...) - ^z - 2010-02-13