“Henman Crashes Out”.
Does he ever get ‘knocked out’, ‘beaten’ or ‘defeated’? No. He ‘crashes out’.
Indeed most tennis players ‘crash out’. A Google search of “tennis” and “crashes out” reveals around 46,000 mentions. Who says sports journalism is cliched?
Most Overused Phrases in Media #1
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Firefighters always put out “a blaze”.
There’s always a “pile-up” on the motorway, and traffic-jams always lead to “gridlock” (despite never actually doing so).
Police always take part in “raids”.
US troops always take part in “assaults”.
An expert who is well-known for speaking his views is never “opinionated”, but “controversial”.
And we always, ALWAYS, know the age of people in the tabloid news reports.
However, clearly sports reporting is cliched. It’s supposed to be. As “a national radio station” once reported, “It was a ding-dong derby at The Dell”: simultaneously the worst, and best, bit of sports journalism I’ve ever heard.
James, 34