2007 clichés “thrown under the bus”

Lake Superior State University put the smack down on overused phrases (via Joanne Jacobs).  I was particularly delighted to read this bit:

Other contributors took umbrage at the phrase to “give back” as applied to charitable gestures, usually by celebrities.

“The notion has arisen that as one's life progresses, one accumulates a sort of deficit balance with society which must be neutralized by charitable works or financial outlays,” one said.

Celebrities make me ill (at least one NSFW).