'Sofa of despair’': It's the Coalition buzz-phrase generator
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Your support makes all the difference.The Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, visited Leicester County Hall and expressed his desire to get people who don’t have jobs “off the sofa of despair
It’s not the first ham-fisted buzz-phrase to be put forward by members of the Coalition Government, remember Nick Clegg’s “alarm-clock Britain”? To lend our busy ministers a hand, here’s a cut-out-and-keep tool for creating new, aspirational buzz-phrases.
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Choose a verb
Throw, alight, despatch, reach, lift, raise, tear
Choose a pronoun
Yourself, everybody, us, them
Choose a preposition
On, for, to, of, from + the
Choose an object
Broken, settee, untrimmed, hedge, iffy kettle, B-road, musty attic, plastic bag, slag heap +of
Choose a feeling
Despair, sorrow, hope, joy, aspiration, alienation, unemployment
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Tear yourself from the B-road of alienation
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