This assumes that it is a normal conversational convention for people to casually predict the future. вЂњIf someone would have told me a decade ago that in 10 years IвЂ™d be doing X, I would NEVER have believed it.вЂќ Substitute with: I donвЂ™t care, or just silence.Д¤. You donвЂ™t give a ratвЂ™s ass about what? Linguistic originality? Did you think this whole conversation was a big lead up to my asking, вЂњDo you have any rodent sphincters I can have?вЂќ Such banality actually hurts your case, not enhances it. If a steak is truly great, an event truly random or funny, it would inspire you to actually devote an original thought to it. If you just truncate, and rearrange the original sentence you are left with stylistically fine, if uninspired, sentence. Save us the stupidity and turn your interrogative sentence into a declarative one: That WAS funny. The formula of: вЂњHow X was Y?,вЂќ How good was that steak?,вЂќ вЂњHow random was that?вЂќ

Substitute with: Not making the definition be the exact words of the words being defined.Дў. When was that in dispute? Did someone say, вЂњHey, it is not what it is.вЂќ, or, вЂњIt is what it is not.вЂќ?

Here is what you just said: It is = It is. (AuthorвЂ™s Note: You may also enjoy installments II and III of the Overused Phrased Dumb People Say trilogy) But they all share (at least) one common thread: I hate them all. Some of these everyday phrases make the speaker sound unintelligent because they lack originality, some indicate poor grammar, and others just connote mental laziness.

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