Belfastboy, I really do feel your anguish. Thirty years ago the company that I worked for had one of the nicest directors. He was head of sales and marketing and he certainly knew his subject, but oh, did the man love euphemisms. This was a time before the internet, yet somehow those strangled English jargon expressions went round the English speaking world as quick as today's email and this fellow was always first to use the latest "buzzword, or expression." It drove me mad. And others too, I remember sitting next to my regional manager, he had scribbled the word "Bullsh**t" on his agenda sheet, it caught my giggle button. In an attempt not to laugh I sipped from a glass of water and pretended to cough. You should read Mark Peters.
We won't ask how or why you know this.
You're right of course, just dont go annoying me by starting a sentence with: "So, basically, or absolutely."
I hope to God it was a convertible Miata. Blowing thinning hair in the wind whilst blasting extreme’s “ more than words” at the full volume his aftermarket Alpine car stereo (with theft prevention, of course) could support.
My youngest son started using that a few years ago, drawing a reaction similar to yours from dad. I was also able to verbally beat him into choosing a different term.
In my mind. I was. LOL.
Whoa! I just got finished watching "Forged in Fire". I like the show, even if one episode seems much like another, but every .. single ... week, the host challenges the finalists to "recreate this iconic weapon from history". No, Will, an obscure blade from central Africa is not possibly "an iconic weapon from history". This show doesn't have much of a budget for writers. The three judges use the same phrases every... single... week.
