Austerity: No, it isn’t. It is not austerity when we have civil servants being paid €214,000 a year...and political handlers are insulted at the idea that they might have to serve their country on anything less than €127,000 a year...
Difficult (or hard or tough) choices: The late historian of modern Europe, Tony Judt, says it best, "When imposing welfare cuts upon the poor, for example, legislators . . . have taken a singular pride in the 'hard choices they have had to make. The poor vote in much smaller numbers than anyone else. So there is little political risk in penalising them: just how 'hard' are such choices? These days, we take pride in being tough enough to inflict pain on others."...
The devil is in the detail: Our problem is grasping the bloody obvious...the biggest transfer of public resources to private institutions and individuals in the history of the State...
Add your own words abused by politicians and "news"commentators to mean nearly the opposite of their definitions. I'm sure I'll be adding a few.