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Originally Posted by Metal Warrior
Yes, anachronistic English is tiresome. O'Reilly uses this one a lot.
"Fresh" bugs me, as with TV designer types using it at every turn when meaning "new" or "a new use". Ditto, "clean", when meaning anything other than out of the washer.
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It's twee - cutesy, in an antique store way. If people used it once a year it would be ok, but goddam it does not wear well at all outside of its historical time. It's a very fake-wood expression. An expression that hints at profundity and dignity or gravitas that just ain't there. No, you're Bill O'Reilly. An entertainment gossip and professional nob. Not a piece of teakwood in a eminence grise's visiting chamber.