"I would argue with people about creeds; but I would kill them for catch words."

If I were grand Inquisitor, I would try to burn out of the world not so much certain beliefs as certain phrases. I would argue with people about creeds; but I would kill them for catch words. Short of this, much might be done by voluntary asceticism and self-denial. Journalists might take a vow not to say "a strong man" for eight months, after which time they might begin to have some faint adumbration of what, if anything, they mean by it

-June 5, 1915, Illustrated London News

[I'd say a war against catch words would be *very* appropriate in today's journalism, which practically seems to consist in nothing but such things...]