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But the phrase's real staying power is represented in the variations it has sparked for non-election news coverage.

Danny Groner: It's The Overused Headline, Stupid Danny Groner 2010

But the phrase's real staying power is represented in the variations it has sparked for non-election news coverage.

Danny Groner: It's The Overused Headline, Stupid Danny Groner 2010

Given this phrase's slanted messaging and misleading overtones - not to mention the fact that it's, you know, completely inaccurate - it was probably inevitable that it would quickly become a stock journalistic catchphrase: "Geithner played down the need to move instantly on entitlement reform ..."

Richard (RJ) Eskow: "Entitlement Reform" Is a Euphemism For Letting Old People Get Sick and Die RJ 2011

Given this phrase's slanted messaging and misleading overtones - not to mention the fact that it's, you know, completely inaccurate - it was probably inevitable that it would quickly become a stock journalistic catchphrase: "Geithner played down the need to move instantly on entitlement reform ..."

Richard (RJ) Eskow: "Entitlement Reform" Is a Euphemism For Letting Old People Get Sick and Die RJ 2011

But the phrase's real staying power is represented in the variations it has sparked for non-election news coverage.

Danny Groner: It's The Overused Headline, Stupid Danny Groner 2010

But the phrase's real staying power is represented in the variations it has sparked for non-election news coverage.

Danny Groner: It's The Overused Headline, Stupid Danny Groner 2010

Considered carefully, it becomes more than itself, in the same way that the title of her celebrated tent-work, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 1995 played on the phrase's colloquial sexual meaning and was mischievously, seriously, quite literally, a list of everybody she had ever gone to sleep next to.

Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am' 2011

Others are arrant pedants we endure, or -- as famous know-it-all Keith Olberman might say without the irony of the phrase's originator, Winston Churchill -- "up with whom we put" for family, business or purely masochistic reasons.

Michael Sigman: Knowing Know-It-Alls 2010

Others are arrant pedants we endure, or -- as famous know-it-all Keith Olberman might say without the irony of the phrase's originator, Winston Churchill -- "up with whom we put" for family, business or purely masochistic reasons.

Knowing Know-It-Alls 2010

He said that soon after he had used the phrase, people had started contacting him on Twitter, pointing out that he had just used it when referring to a black man -- an insensitive reference, they thought, given the phrase's connections to slavery.

Rick Sanchez Calls Obama 'Cotton Picking President,' Apologizes (VIDEO) 2010