Phrases you hate...

I never thought I'd hate any phrase...but "run the gamut" is starting to get on my nerves, especially when its use is not immediately followed by specifics in the same sentence; e.g., "It runs the gamut." (FULL STOP.)

"That's just semantics."

Yes. I am discussing the actual meaning of the words you just misused, because you've expressed yourself so poorly I cannot construe what the fuck you are driving at.

'dead to rights'

idk why i hate this phrase, i just do. it makes me grit my teeth.

I kind of like "dead to rights" because I can't imagine anyone other than Yosemite Sam using it

"I hope my email finds you well"

it got to my inbox, if that's what you mean

Uergh yeah, I hate that.

"I hope my unsolicited email finds you in a good enough mood to spend money with my company."

No, it never, ever does.

"I hope my e-mail does a good job finding you"

I've always wondered about that phrase -- does it date back to a time when you actually couldn't be reasonably certain a message would reach its recipient? Or is it more like "I hope you are well when you receive this."

the latter!

Or is it more like "I hope you are well when you receive this."

i always thought it was this.

Yeah I thought that was more likely as well. Still a little pompous sounding I guess.

"be a part of" used to mean "give me money for my project"

Not a phrase, per se, but I think my current least favorite utterance in the English language is that gross and dismissive "...Okaaay?..." response people give when you've supposedly said something incomprehensible or off the wall but, really, the root of it is that the person you're speaking to is just a rude asshole who doesn't want to continue the conversation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpQgEyjNdM

i'm sure it has been mentioned before but i just felt a wave of disgust for shareable content

"*sigh*"

Seeing this in responses right before a paragraph of capital letters espousing Opinion Supremacy. Oh your disdain for me and my idiocy is at such a level that to lower yourself to my plane of existence in order to educate me on why YOU are right and I a blathering idiot causes you so much grief you must type out your irl exhaustion. It is ok, I realize you are only doing this for the good of humanity, and it is at your great personal sacrifice to have to explain your opinion to such a dullard as I.

When people say (usually on facebook) that some minor act of goodness "restored my faith in humanity." These flighty fucks need to get a grip already!

Are your feelings about humanity really so easily lowered and raised? Do you constantly find yourself forgetting that at any given minute humans somewhere are doing both wonderful and awful things and everything in between?

Yes

STOP FUCKING USING "LEVERAGE" IN PLACE OF "USE"

otm

i guess i don't *hate* it, but why is everything suddenly being 'gifted' instead of 'given'

like thrifted

How is "binge-watching" not on this page yet.

i was in a training session where the guy kept talking about 'learns' as in 'what learns are you hoping to take away with you today?', 'what key learns have you taken from this?'.

What. The. Fuck.

'Learns' is popular here. Infuriating.

there is literally no need for this. are they trying to avoid the word 'lesson'? why not say 'what have you learnt from this?'?

'learns'
no
no
NO

I lessoned some learns at school today.

I've heard "learnings" but "learns" is some next-level wrongheadedness

Here endeth the learn.

getting all the learns

i guess you learns a new thing every day

sick learn

feel the learn

3rd degree learn

learn notice

ha that sounds like a real thing

when your CIA handler calls you and tells you.... you've been learned

so many feels about this

"There's no 'there' there" is the worst expression of all expressions. Far worse than "think outside the box."

The fact that it is an allusion makes it worse. It was smug and unimaginative when Gertrude Stein said it, and the same is true when internet commenters say it about an artwork they don't understand.

there's no 'tree' there

"caping for"

caping for???

"by far one of the _____" is my new least favorite phrase

e.g. It was by far one of the better episodes of Game of Thrones. Hands down, it was pretty alright I guess. It was far and away an episode of television.

"good shoot"/"bad shoot"