"Battle", One Of The Ten Most Over-Used Words In English?

[douglas9401]

Right up there with 'potential', 'green' and 'mental health'?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61246454

[wolf63]

That's no even a minor skirmish.

'Mental health' puzzles me - we all have mental health.
What if you are pure dead nuts? Is this a mental health problem? What if the person is enjoying their manic life to the full? Why is that considered to be e a problem? Or bad?

[Peter Pedant]

on AB?
foo and MAABOF should be high on the list

if you are going for subsets, then naomi's - stupid man, jerk and stupid answer must be in the top ten

[bobbinwales]

I agree with mental health issues being overused... papers today had a boy with half and half hair cur (bottom half shaved top half long )whose sent home from school and Mum claims its affecting he's mental health

[bobbinwales]

hair cuT.
On radio programmes anyone with a complaint about anything like poor service mentions the affect on there mental health

[JimF]

Not to mention virtually everything these days being referred to as a 'journey'.

And if anyone sends me an email telling me why they're 'reaching out' to me, it goes straight in the bin.

[naomi24]

Point of order there, pp. ‘stupid man’ and ‘stupid answer’, more than likely - but jerk? Not in my usual vocabulary. However, the cap fits … as ‘they’ say… so be my guest.

[goodgoalie]

My latest bugbear is: 'it is what it is'.

[mushroom25]

// Mum claims its affecting he's mental health //

well of course it is. who wants to walk around with a head that looks like the top of a carrot?

[youngmafbog]

It is what it is.

[Paul22118]

I watched a very irritating interview about something I have forgotten recently, the young female being interviewed used the word 'like' many times. We discussed this at home and I played back the interview which was just over four minutes long. She said 'like' THIRTY SEVEN times.......

[naomi24]

You didn't like it then, paul. :o)

[Paul22118]

I need to get out more Naomi.