Things to Retire #4238

To the ever expanding list of things that need to be retired thanks to merciless overuse we can add:

You go, girl! : really, enough already. This was trite and hackneyed approximately 90 seconds after it was first said and was immediately interred when the evil Oprah started to use it.

The passive voice in ski writing, as in "All of the turns we made today were had off the gondola." or "Good skiing was to be had in the protected woods." Talk about an artificial air of importance! C'mon folks, it's just ski writing, not War and Peace.