It's time for some ventilation

  As the American dialogue lurches ahead we find some awful phraseology constantly repeated by dim bulbs who are trying to appear just a little brighter. Here are a few examples {and perhaps you've been trapped by these utterances as well}:

 "at this point in time"

  Well, of course it's at this point in time, what else would it be: at this point in mayonnaise? at this point in absentia? at this point ad infinitum?

  But no. Some lawyer or bureaucrat is reaching for a little more time of their own with this phrase because, of course, what is meant is "at this point." Or the more daring "now," or (gasp) "currently."

  But that would make too much sense to say "now," so the travesty is repeated until it infects the everyday lexicon.

"at the end of the day"

  A more hackneyed, overused bullshit phrase cannot be found. The more direct "in the end" is far too scarce. Or just say "finally," or the simply succinct "ultimately."

"in the overnight hours"

  Here's one that weather forecasters use all the time when simply saying "overnight" would suffice. But then, weather forecasters are a verbose bunch of blowhards trying to fill up all that air time and they simply cannot handle a millisecond that is not jammed with their gibberish.

  While the aforementioned cliches are a very transparent attempt to appear smarter, they generally reveal the speaker to be as dumb as he, or she, looks.