cataloging words and phrases that seem to pop up everywhere all of a sudden

"game changer"- very tedious.

wheelhouse

There was a real "herding cats" thing goin on abt this time last year

My boss is a herding cats fanatic. I'd barely heard it until he started dropping it into almost every third phone conversation.

I'm afraid I use this phrase on occasion. It's quite apt, so what ya gonna do?

I don't mind it, but his overuse of the phrase got on my nerves. He has a rotating repertoire of phrases he uses to make himself sound more intelligent/witty.

I used "herding cats" twice this week at work. u_u

yeah, i heard it too the other day.

i used it unironically last week

were you herding some cats?

sure why not

was actually herding cats "like herding cats"?

I actually used this in my personal statement for grad school apps. Unironically. But in quotes. I am a horrible human being.

imperial phase

'Labour's Union Links' is a golf course, right?

closed shop sossidge innit

the new normal

is it me or has "offer" in that horrible noun usage meaning "the services or goods a company provides" sprung up everywhere in the last 3 or 4 months?

"kill (it / them / him /her) with fire" seemed to be popular a few weeks back but thankfully I think it's died down.

Our postgraduate offering is really good.

Right-sizing

Sigh

I'd never heard of Right-sizing before!

amaright-sigh-zing

Our postgraduate offering is really good

"offering" i could live with but "offer" seems to be the preferred word of the evil

xpost

you will...you will

it's the latest innovation that allows you to save crucial time and money by not having to say "our thing is not the correct size; we will change the size of the thing"

One construction I've noticed in different places is along the lines of "fascism happens slowly, then very fast" and "how do you go bankrupt? first slowly, then quickly." Googling the bankruptcy variation, I was pointed to this exchange from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises:

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Anyway, I don't know that I'd ever heard this prior to a month ago. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the phrase recently becoming more popular, or is this more a case of me now knowing it and so seeing it everywhere.