At the end of the day, the bottom line is... [View All]

[trof]

that I'd like to see these two tired cliches, figures of speech, or whatever you'd call them, permanently banished from the language.

If you mean finally, or eventually, this is what will happen, or result, just say that in as few words as possible without the tired labels.

While we're at it, dump "the fact of the matter is...".
First of all, when I hear that, especially from a repug, I know that I'm about to hear a lie.

If it's really a 'fact', you don't need to tell me it is.
And the statement that your 'fact' concerns the matter under discussion is howlingly redundant.

I'll be able to judge for myself if what you just said is, in fact ;-), true or not.

End of rant.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum.
:-)