{"id":1122,"date":"2011-05-10T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2011-05-10T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:46:46","slug":"apprentice-isms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/10\/apprentice-isms\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice-isms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Youre-fired.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Youre-fired.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"You&#039;re fired\" width=\"235\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1123\" \/><\/a>Everyone knows the famous<em> \u201cyou\u2019re fired\u201d <\/em>catchphrase from popular TV show <em>The Apprentice<\/em>. Popularised by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\">The Donald<\/a> in America, it\u2019s used in the UK by Lord Alan Sugar. <\/p>\n<p>The show is also known for the cringeworthy things that contestants say. Who can forget Stuart Baggs from the last series, with the classic<em> &#8220;I&#8217;m not a one-trick pony, I&#8217;m not a 10-trick pony &#8211; I&#8217;ve got a field of ponies waiting to literally run towards this job.&#8221;<\/em> Love it.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-13338023\">BBC article<\/a> has complied some other classics, here\u2019s a few of my favourites:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The spoken word is my tool,&#8221;<\/em> said silky-tongued Raef Bjayon in series four.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me the sky is the limit when there&#8217;s footsteps on the moon.&#8221; <\/em>Yes, we&#8217;ve sneaked in a line from one of this year&#8217;s candidates.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think outside the box, if I was an apple pie the apples inside me would be oranges&#8221; <\/em>(said by Alex in series six).<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any more to add?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows the famous \u201cyou\u2019re fired\u201d catchphrase from popular TV show The Apprentice. Popularised by The Donald in America, it\u2019s used in the UK by Lord Alan Sugar. The show is also known for the cringeworthy things that contestants say. Who can forget Stuart Baggs from the last series, with the classic &#8220;I&#8217;m not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3,44],"tags":[990,3,167,124],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","category-words","tag-catchphrases","tag-english","tag-language-usage","tag-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}