New Cliches

[jay_christley]

At the risk of this becoming an espn-bash (because I happen to like my poker on TV and the use of walk-off homer for its descriptive qualities)...

Instant classic.

I've read it in several different stories over the last couple weeks, including once or twice by some talented writers I would have never figured it for.

Anything else popping up in people's copy -- gleaned either from talking heads or pop culture -- that we'd be better off without?

 

[awriter]

It's been around a few years but ... walkoff homer.

 

[Jersey_Shore]

It's been around a few years but ... walkoff homer.

Drives me nuts how much "walkoff" is used these days. Walkoff double, walkoff single, walkoff walk...how about walkoff wild pitch or walkoff fielder's choice.

 

[jay_christley]

Apparently we missed reading the first line of the initial post.

Walk-off, walkoff, etc. have been debated to death here.

I was referring to recent cliches that have popped up in, say, the last six months to a year.

 

[da man]

I've actually heard TV people use the phrase walk-off field goal.

 

[SF_Express]

"It is what it is," is still a fairly new cliche quote, and increasingly maddening.

 

[jgmacg]

Let's not throw "walkoff" under the bus.

 

[tommyp]

Giants-Eagles, earlier this year, I heard the phrase 'walk-off touchdown' by an ESPN talking head.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Doesn't the phrase "new cliche" strongly resemble the phrase "instant classic"?

 

[awriter]

Apparently we missed reading the first line of the initial post.

Walk-off, walkoff, etc. have been debated to death here.

I was referring to recent cliches that have popped up in, say, the last six months to a year.

Instant classic isn't exactly a new phrase.

 

[jay_christley]

Apparently we missed reading the first line of the initial post.

Walk-off, walkoff, etc. have been debated to death here.

I was referring to recent cliches that have popped up in, say, the last six months to a year.

Instant classic isn't exactly a new phrase.

Thanks for your contribution.

 

[txsportsscribe]

Apparently we missed reading the first line of the initial post.

Walk-off, walkoff, etc. have been debated to death here.

I was referring to recent cliches that have popped up in, say, the last six months to a year.

Instant classic isn't exactly a new phrase.

Thanks for your contribution.

well, awriter is right. instant classic is not new.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

I've seen it as a hammerhed. Never in the body of a story.

"Under the bus" is the most insipid of the new cliches.

 

[JBHawkEye]

I use "it is what it is" all of the time on a radio segment I do, just because it bothers the host.

Seriously, if I see "walkoff" anything or "instant classic" in any stories, it comes out. Same with "web gems."

 

[FishHack76]

Along with "under the bus", "drinking the ________ Kool-Aid" ... nothing like a mass suicide reference.

 

[ondeadline]

Moving forward. ... as in "what will this team do, moving forward."

 

[MileHigh]

"I look at it as the most important game of the season because it’s the next game."

 

[Lollygaggers]

This is a butcher of an older cliche, but I've seen writers in the past few months write that a team or player will try to get "untracked" in the next week, game, etc. Am I out of the loop, or isn't it still "on track" and a poor cliche to begin with?

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

A stringer at my old paper insisted it was untracked, much to my bewilderment. And I see it written as such in other articles, from time to time. If a train gets untracked, that's a ****ing bad thing.

 

[KP]