Me too! It makes me irrationally angry when people regurgitate linguistic clichés. I was already mad with:
"python does not have a go-like concurrency story"
when it would be enough (and 1000x less cringe) to say:
"python does not have go-like concurrency"
I think these mindless clichés make language really ugly and dysfunctional, and even worse they are thought-stoppers, because they make the reader/listener feel like something smart is being said, because they recognize the "in-group" lingo. In my experience, people get really offended when you point this out. It's kind of an HN taboo to discuss this. Which is also interesting in itself.
Going forward we should pay more attention to our communication use cases. Btw: I wonder if we can stack several of these clichés. For example: "leverage" + "use case" = "leverage case".