Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

man alive what would you say would happen if I did use that phrase

cash me outside then

when did this thread become a Dr Phil episode

referring to marketing campaigns or advertisements as 'activations'

hmm i work for a service that has an app and we refer to new users as 'activations' which i also detest but does make a nominal bit of sense

does this thread have a counterpart of words, usages and phrases that rock your world/float your boat/tickle your fancy/insert your phrase of choice?

the last post was 16 years ago, but yes!

The Best Words In the English Language

16 years of words annoying the shit out of us without one good one! That's so us with our loving of everything.

Words is quite limited in scope but thank you TH. I was thinking more of literary tropes/devices/idioms I like.

Favourite words, usages, phrases etc

ledge you're a ledge

GARU G bringing the content VMIC on the words thread (albeit with a disappointing lack of FLANGE)

Favourite words, usages, phrases etc🕸

the single good use of this thread is to encourage a more intense and felt deployment of any word, usage or phrase brought to it

can't believe everything mentioned on this thread is actually good

what about my post about the phrase, "he turned around to me and said"?

Then he turned to me and said...
"Baby boy, put down your iPhone 3. Because I think that there's a chance you wanna get with me

turned around to me

bright eyes

"Toenail polish"...always said by a man. There is no such thing as "toenail polish" THERE IS ONE KIND OF POLISH AND IT IS FOR BOTH KINDS OF NAILS. Or maybe I just hate the word "toenail".

'Self-isolate' is weird, right?

It's the difference between entering, eg, WA USA and entering, eg, NSW, Australia. One of them asks you to put yourself on the honour system and quarantine for 14 days (or seven with a negative test), the other requires you to pay $5000 for a hotel room and a security guard to stop you leaving.

(Many cases of community transmission in .au have come from the guards fucking the quarantinees, then going to their second jobs as security guards or app-based food delivery drivers.)

‘yeet’

"presser"

Or, perhaps worse, "a press avail."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bjy5YQ5xPc

the can is this thread

‘yeet’

You are what you yeet.

Yeets don't fail me now

Yeet the rich.

God made Yeet and man's gotta eat

Yeet your heart out.

Phew nobody's done the obvious yet

if this gonna be that kinda party ima stick my yeet in the mashed potatoes

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, where to the climber upward turns his face: But when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. Yeet.

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not yeet of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

'abundance of caution'

^ been overworked lately and in need of a rest

ironically the phrase, "a form of words"

something referred to - most likely in the workplace - as an "x piece"

"this is part of our online piece," someone might say, or, "because of the values piece"

Jesus yes

I'm generally not with just offering up normal office jargon itt but that one is a horror

“across the piece” very common where i work, meaning “affecting many parts of the business”

"Naming" things - meaning mentioning them, but with some vague connotation of bravely telling the truth - is very common in my place of work.

I just wanted to name that...
Thank you for naming that!
What you just named is interesting because...

Often used in conjunction w/piece, meaning element of teaching practice - "that piece you just named..."

"And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field"

“always already”

I tend to picture the writer leaning back smugly like they know they’ve just blown my mind

"Speaking my truth"

"talking around" as in "today we're going to be talking around X", which is inadvertently a good description of those point-missing meetings. The better ones are "focusing in on X".

let's really bottom that out

we need to really drill into that

Misread that as dril and was about to quibble.

what now

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