“Step up to the plate”
I’m going to rip my friggin hair out. Its this damn phrase - “step up to the plate”. Thanks to The Apprentice and also The other Apprentice this has creeped back into the mainstream as a way to indicate that someone is not doing what is expected of them - ‘pulling their weight’, ‘towing thier load’, etc.
In last week’s Trump Apprentice the project manager for the women’s team said that she needed Toral to “step up to the plate” and wear that rediculous mascot outfit. It was probably used 5 or 6 other times in the episode. The message really starts to get lost in the hackney of it all. If you really want to get your point across, how about just saying what the hell is on your mind and not relying on worn out phrases?