by loiswakeman
@ 02 Oct. 2006 - 11:46:13
Sports commentaries are always a rich source of amusement for those of us with an interest in English, and yesterday's coverage of the Chinese Grand Prix on ITV was no disappointment.
I imagine that the team send a gofer out to the cliché supermarket before every broadcast.
He or she returns staggering under the weight of newly minted and classic clichés, with side orders of mixed metaphors and tortured usage. These are then distributed to the commentators with strict instructions to use them all up by the end of the programme, or else.
Two that made me snort my tea:
"He [Robert Kubica] bet the house, and the house fell down on him"
"Fisichella is the meat in a very unpleasant sandwich"
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