If you write, “Put on your oxygen mask first,” I’ll have to smother you
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If you write, “Put on your oxygen mask first,” I’ll have to smother you

Today in the war on clichés, I take on “Put on your oxygen mask first.” Have you heard this before? You have? Then why would you write it as if it is some sort of new and revealing insight? Damn, I’m sick of reading this — and of deleting it in the things I edit….