Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Near MissThis one truly gets me ready to hurl things at the telly (usually vapid newscasters) or strangle the fuckwit who says it!
A Near Miss is a fucking HIT!!!!!! If you nearly miss something then you have to have hit it, if what these numpties are trying to say is that they almost hit, then use that as the term that it was a Near Accident or a Near Hit, not a fucking Near Miss!!!
Red mist fades and goes back to taking the purple pills to make all the nasty things go away.
(, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 3:42, 2 replies)
Sigh, almost, not quite. You could say, you and your point had a near miss.You are confusing the two similar (always in spelling, sometimes in meaning) words "Near" and "Nearly".
To nearly miss something would be a hit.
For two objects to have a near miss, would mean it missed, but the state of the two objects would be near to one another.
You might like to apologise to whovever you have yelled at who said near miss :)
Source: Married to an English teacher who fumed at your post.
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Anal_Volley_Net, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 4:25,
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It was a miss, but it was near.What's not to get? Would you prefer close miss?
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Bob Todd whee, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 10:15,
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