“High five!” and “it’s sexy time!,” favorite expressions of the popular comic character* Borat, have topped a list of the top Hollywood phrases of the year. The Global Language Monitor, a non-profit group that monitors* word usage, put those two expressions at the top of its annual list of Hollywood words and phrases for the impact* they made on the English language. In second place was a Hollywood star trend of giving babies unusual names like Suri, the name of the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and Shiloh Nouvel, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Global Language Monitor head Paul J.J. Payack said the trend “opens an entire new world of possibilities to young parents for giving names.” Other words and phrases on the list include “pursuit” from Will Smith’s film “The Pursuit of Happyness” and the phrase “Nazi bullets,” used by the grandfather in “Little Miss Sunshine” to explain his crankiness*. One expression from the box-office hit “The Queen,” for which Helen Mirren won the best actress Oscar, made the list. “Will someone please save these people from themselves!,” the Tony Blair character said in the movie. Actress Meryl Streep also made the list after declaring to an unfortunate associate in “The Devil Wears Prada” — “The details of your incompetence* do not interest me.” Last year, “brokeback” from “Brokeback Mountain” topped the annual survey.
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