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Personally, I prefer to use those phrases when the probabilities really are quite close to 50-50.
I wouldn't use those phrases now, not because I'm standing for parliament but because I'm 15 years older, greyer and hopefully wiser.
It's more de facto than de jure, if I can use those phrases.
Why is there even a reason to use those phrases if we are perfectly happy and content with the individuals that we are?
I'm over the word "like" in conversation, and "you know" seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
Expect your toddler to use those phrases as well.
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The reference is to former Senator Warren B. Rudman of New Hampshire, who used those phrases in his autobiography to describe some in the Christian right, although he also said there were "some fine, sincere people in its ranks".
Perhaps our parents were indeed onto something when they used those phrases that seemed so meaningless at the time.
Imagine that these commentators picked apart the New or Old Testament to find its most heinous contents, then used those phrases to justify their hatred and distrust.
"There was a place called Winterland, and we'd always be backstage running around or on stage and, of course, we're using those phrases.
"We don't want to have a blanket block on those terms because oftentimes people are using those phrases to advocate against those preferences or that kind of language".
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