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    313 days ago

    We should retire the idiom because people are using it as intended and everyone understands it as intended?

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      013 days ago

      I think people intend it to be a clever undercutting of the person they dislike. But it stopped being clever ages ago. When does something become a cliche? Because it just sounds petty now.