Thursday, September 19, 2019

Let's talk …

… Having a Conversation, One Cliché at a Time - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“We have got to have a national conversation and a Republican conversation on where we are going on debt and deficit spending,” Mr. Sanford told Fox’s Chris Wallace. We need “to have a conversation on what it means to be a Republican,” he told NBC’s Chuck Todd. He informed both men that we need to have a conversation on trade, and Mr. Wallace that we also need “a conversation on humility and one’s approach to politics.” Mark Sanford, clearly, is a man with a hunger for discussion. If you’ve a free moment, give him a ring.


When I was on a newspaper copy desk, we kept an eye for clichés. Ee probably didn't catch them all, but we kept plenty out of print. Of course, you can make reference to them tongue-in-cheek, as I confess I have been wont to do from time to time.

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