Phrases you hate...

This one isn't a phrase but it confuses me:
"Excuse me" being used by people walking in your general direction who aren't going to crash into you & you're really not posing any kind of obstacle to them going on their merry way, which leads me to assume it's an attention-getting device, as in "Hi I'm walking past you now, saw you weren't really noticing me, don't freak out at my proximity to you". Very weird, uniquely American convention that I haven't quite grasped yet.

Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...
Things you're sick of hearing: Single words, cliches, and tired phrases. Don't read if you hate pedantry.
Commonly used phrases that inexplicably bug you
Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression
Four Words: Use Other Words Please
"Taking Things to a Whole `Nother Level!"
Use other phrases please
Banal phrases that pepper everyday office conversation - report them here

alba, youre everyones fact checkin' cuz

Repeating the past isn't necessarily bad... especially if there is no past for a newcomer.
Is this a semi-private board of stuffy folks bent on wanking off only in the company of fellow stuffy board members or what?

Yes. Precisely! For example, if you were burning to discuss bicameral vs. unicameral legislative bodies, there is already a thread for doing exactly that. Why start any more?

The slowness of full-text searches isn't anything to do with your internet connection speed, btw.

2. The best thing to do when a string is redundant is to jump right in and announce the fact you have identified it as redundant instead of ignoring it, right?

3. After a three hour recovery period I am perfectly sober again.

4. Boo!

This sends me into fucking orbit for some reason.

"He's burning both ends of the same candle"— I don't know what I hate about it, I just do.

"They're just talking" as a euphemism for two people not in a relationship fooling around up to but not including sex. I actually preferred "being with each other," back when that was the thing to say.

Also, in a previous phrases-you-hate thread I mentioned hating "Can I get..." when asking for something. The only time it should be used is by a Southern Baptist preacher asking for an Amen.

"Here goes nothing"— What does it mean?

Clue: Coincidentally, the phrase means exactly the same as one of its component words.

I actually hadn't heard or read that one since about ten minutes after watching an ep of 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh In' for the last time, some time around 1969. 'R&M'sL-I' was a classic show, and a ground-breaker, but it has spawned a ream of catch-phrases for subsequent flogging to death, even more than Monty Python. Fortunately, 'Here goes nothing' ran out of legs faster than most of them.

Sheesh, some of you people... I love it how when Theresa asked if it had already been done, someone said yes and then A GAZILLION PEOPLE reiterate this fact. WE KNOW, now either ignore the thread (and by not posting make it drop lower on the list) or contribute something instead of "le sigh been thee done that, i'm a reg and you're a noob or idiot who can't search."

Anyway, I hate it when people say: I'm 110 procent sure. Dude, either your completely sure or less, but not more than completely.

As mentioned upthread, "base touching" is the WORST.

Big thumbs down on "pro-active".
Hate hate hate it.

What does he "bring to the table"?
Hate that one too.

All mindless utterances from mindless mid-level managers can go, too.

verbs/verb phrases!! touches on, informed by - esp. when I resort to using them!!!

My boss says "decant" when he means "put out the Japanese porn we just got". I know he tries, but you just can't make that classy

!!!Donna please tell me that was not a typo.

I wish I could stop myself from saying "I hear ya" whenever I'm trying hard not to convey that I either really don't give a shit about what the person is saying or just feel uncomfortable.

As much as I hate that I do it, I admit I use "it's all good" sometimes. But know that when I do, behind my eyes the real me is screaming "NO IT ISN'T, IT IS ALL GOING HORRIBLY WRONG AND I AM TOO PASSIVE TO KICK UP A FUSS SO I WILL JUST BE NICE AND A DOORMAT K"

Ugh.

ooh, I hate 'it's all good'. (It's not you, Trayce, it's me)
No, my boss totally says "I need you to decant H*usewives at Pl*y:King Sized Special". Awesome

:o

I want your job!

never a good time whenever i hear "you have the right to remain silent. if you give up that right, anything you say may be used against you in a court..."

never good.

T, you say that now :)

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The 10 Eco-Worst Fish

"illegal votes"

“on point”

"I was today years old when I learned that cats have scent glands in their paw pads"
"I was today years old when I learned that cats have scent glands in their paw pads"
"I was today years old when I learned that cats have scent glands in their paw pads"

"it just hits different"

you will love this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlMkMtK7-8

i like sza

it's just 38 year old blue wave twitter dorks using it in earnest like "the second episode of mandalorian just hit different" or some shit

'cuddle puddle'

ums otm about 'hits different'. like, i will hit u, even more different

"I work hard, and I play hard."

fuck you, alpha male poser, just do your goddam job and leave the rest of us out of it.

'bragging rights'

^don't hate the phrase, hate the smug assholes who use it literally instead of playfully

i recoil with disgust at the entire concept of "bragging rights" because i think bragging itself is ugly behavior.

I think the phrase "weaponize (anything)" can be dropped down the memory hole.

"wow factor" on any UK makeover or competition programme. It especially annoys me when people say "a wow factor" instead of "the wow factor". Like "I used this special kind of door to give it a wow factor."

I hate dad-phrases that are money-based, such as "I'd pay TOP DOLLAR for blah blah blah", or "they won't get ONE THIN DIME out of me anymore."

otm

Real dads don't talk about the money.

I think the phrase "weaponize (anything)" can be dropped down the memory hole.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, August 15, 2023 6:18 PM bookmarkflaglink

why? it's a legitimate thing that happens and probably the easiest way to sum it up. like the Jonah Hill situation.

Jonah Hill has been weaponized?

In aerosol form yes

It's overused, especially by the right. I heard someone--a Republican strategist--on ATL public radio last night talking about how the GA indictments were a "weaponization of the justice system."

What she really meant, of course, was that she was unhappy it was her people getting in trouble.

“let’s make some memories”

Seeing it a lot at the moment.

I am not fond of that one either.

*Goes on a camping trip with the kids* "Ah, yes. You're making memories."

Shit, I might have dementia one day. I'm just trying to enjoy the moment now, THANKS.

I've worked in local advertising for years and yeah "making memories" is extremely overused, but it is useful in some contexts; like, I think it is important to remember to make memories - we can fall into repetitive patterns where it's the same old same. If you don't make an effort to make new and interesting memories, you're not really living

we can fall into repetitive patterns where it's the same old same

Ok, hadn't heard the "making memories" vs "memorization" argument yet.

For a while almost everything I read about pop culture contained the words "banger" or "slaps" or "liminal." Now I'm seeing the word "horny" in basically everything, too.

hella baller

Gave them their flowers/gave him his flowers/gave her her flowers

Been hearing this crop up a lot lately. My understanding is that it means to give public praise and acknowledgement, perhaps to someone whose work has gone unrecognized. I don't know the origin. It just irritates me.

lol I only know that phrase from Friends, meaning something completely different

Flatt & Scruggs - "Give Me Flowers While I'm Living"

Won't you give me my flowers while I'm living
and let me enjoy them while I can
Please don't wait till I'm ready to be buried
and then slip some lilies in my hand

“victory lap”

"god fearing"