Call the cliché police
BBC News: 20 of your most hated clichés. The first ten are:
- Basically
- To be fair
- To be honest
- Going forward
- The fact of the matter is
- Let's face it
- Touch base
- 110%
- In the pipeline
- The reason being
These are fairly heinous. My personal bugbear is "irregardless" because it's NOT A WORD. Then there's conversational fillers "like" and "you know". I don't know, and I don't like, please get a vocabulary.