At The End Of The Day!!
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About a month back some magzine in UK conducted a survey to find the most hackneyed, widely used and most hated cliches prevalent in daily use English in UK/USA.Guess what? "At the end of the day" was the ultimate winner,and rightly so.I perfectly agree that this is indeed the most boring,lame and meaningless term that anyone can use! It always goes like this: "Anyway at the end of the day what really matters is who wins" :) Yeah you guessed it, In India, our cricketers abuse it the most. Ganguly, Dravid (especially), Tendulkar, Gavaskar,Sherry all use it very often. But what they forget is that at the end of the day (sic) we feel like hitting them at the end of their bums. Vinod Mehta, editor of Outlook, also conducted a mini survey in the last issue after taking a cue from the original survey..the response in India was also overwhelming.I cant remember which one was the winner. But surely it should be "India Shining" :) The whole idea of the original excercise was probably to pass a international law banning use of such cliches (I hope). Here is a list of top 5 cliches that I bear grudge against:-
1.At the end of the day[Instead say "In the evening at 11.59 PM what really matters.."]
2.India Shining [Needs immediate ban!!]
3.Cool [OK,I use it myself, but I'm trying to give it up]
4.Outsourcing [Why not call it "sourcing it out"]
5.Cliche [:-)]