Другой английский inter alia

If you want to find some idiomatic luxury in texts, you'd better take a look at the non-native speakers writing since those are concerned not only with the sense of their meaning, but with the show-off as well trying to impress their readership. With the language proficiency. This desire sometimes makes them produce a torrent of clichés as "take on board, at the and of the day, the bottom line, quantum leap, a wind range of issues, key player, put on hold, state of the art, a different ball game, cutting edge, come out of the closet, put on the back burner, conventional wisdom and fundamentally (or deeply) flawed" are to be avoided: they are irritating and suggest processes of thought that run in pre-existing grooves. Yet worse examples are "when it comes to the crunch, the nitty-gritty and and this point in time"; "at this moment of time is not only a cliché, but a pleonasm, since "moment" already means "point in time".

The maxim that one should avoid clichés is not easily followed; but the effort to express oneself in fresh words in often rewarding. It's necessary to cultivate a sensitivity to hackneyed phrases. An agreeable way of doing so is to read P. G. Wodehouse with attention to his use of language. Bertie Wooster, for instance, never employs clichés inadvertently; he uses them for jocular effect, but always flag them ("I went with what are known as leaden feet; The situation was what is called fraught with peril")