From “shithousery” to “barbed-wire-pocked buttocks”: the phrases you need to hurl at the TV during the Olympics
he post-match interview is the graveyard of good grammar. Olympic athletes say they are desperate “to medal” or “to podium”. Football managers are asked whether they have “lost the dressing room” .A daily email with the best of our journalismYou can’t escape sporting platitudes in everyday life, either. British MPs score “political own-goals”, such as snogging a colleague on camera. Bleary-eyed workers are asked to “take one for the team”.
In every country sporting slang has spilled over into other areas of life. Politicians and corporate bigwigs, like football managers, use clichés for good reason: the same euphemisms that hide or excuse poor performance on the pitch can obscure or justify job cuts or unpopular policies. Want to stop them getting away with it? Time to tee yourself up for success, get the ball rolling and learn some sporting lingo.
Patrick Mahomes II, quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, is not often likened to Barack Obama, but the pair have a shared love of clichés. When Mahomes’s American-football team lost the Super Bowl in April, he lamented: “All you can do is leave everything on the field”. His oratory echoed that of the former president, who vowed to do the same in office.
“Leave it all on the field”, a platitude that means making the maximum possible effort, has made it into stump-speeches and office pep talks. British bosses tell workers to “cover every blade of grass”, a cliché beloved of Premier League football managers. These days an office grunt is expected to show all the dedication of an elite athlete in their mundane job. But what works on the field doesn’t always make sense in the corporate world – Wembley is not a WeWork. In a recent study, more than half of American workers say their jobs make them feel burned out. Perhaps it’s time to stop trying to leave it all on their desks.
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