On Aug 20, 5:03*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:

> A few months ago a woman I know referred to a girl has having no filter. *I
> assumed she had coined the term. *But now since then I have heard this
> almost daily. *So it must have been used in some movie or some TV show that
> I haven't seen.


Never heard that expression but I'm not getting it in context.
Without being in context I would guess no filter would imply she
speaks before she thinks. Yep, your friend probably got the
expression from the media and you never heard it because you may not
watch the same crap she does - and now everywhere you turn you hear
the same expression from everybody - kind of like how for years when
the celebrity egotists would kiss each others asses they'd say they
were paying homage, pronouncing it ah-medge with the accent on ah, but
today it's pronounced oh-mage with the accent on mage. When I receive
my homage I don't care how they pronounce as long as they're down on
their knees when they deliver it. I have a thought though, one I've
had for a while, that even horrible cliches such as one that seems to
bug a lot of people - "have a nice day" - have merit to have been
around and lasted as long as they have. So, I am admitting that in
some cases, maybe all, any expression or cliche, no matter how boring
or annoying, has merit of some sort, because to become a cliche is not
any easy accomplishment - although I will agree that not all cliches
are the same as some live on a long time while others die away.

I go now,
TJ

TJ