New Cliches

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Instant classic isn't exactly a new phrase.

 

Thanks for your contribution.

 

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