Annoying (to me) Phrases

[the_edski]

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[Judge Dredd]

Screwed metaphors include:

• Moving beast (sometimes "Moveable beast")
• Both schools of the fence
• For all intensive purposes
• Keep this at the back of your head

Just plain wrong words:

• Incentivise (sometimes, and more-annoyingly, "Incent")
• Anythink
• Somethink
• Unevadable

Corporate sayings (but useful for very boring meetings when you need to play Bullshit Bingo to make the time at least partly worthwhile):

• Rubber hits the road
• Water off a duck's back
• Grow a thick skin
• Sharp political antennae
• Raise your profile
• Boil the ocean
• On x's radar
• Ducks in a row
• When the planets align
• Vision/mission/values
• Take this off-line
• Metrics
• Key deliverable
• Moving the needle

I'm sure there are plenty others I've forgotten over the years.

I especially hate when these come up in a performance review discussion...

[malocchio]

the word "like" interjected randomly in every other sentence,same goes for "I'm like" or "I'm all about" as substitutes for a rational thought out sentences,and "whatever" or "nowud I'm sayin'" ...just as bad ,people who feel they have to raise the tone of their voice at the end of every other sentence,even though they are making a statement,rather than asking a question,because this is a "cute" way to speak...????....

[JoshuaNY]

I don't like when a waiter or waitress asks me if I am "Still working on that". Yes I am, and I am going to need a jackhammer and a stick of TNT to finish.
Or "Still picking on that", Unless I am at a pig pickin, then I do not pick when I eat.

Now if you will excuse me, Im off to have lunch with Springs1.

[LarryDarrell]

Irregardless...

A commonly used phase I hate is "speak to" as it "I can speak to that item on the agenda". You speak ABOUT the subject, you speak TO someone who is listening to you.
It's an old legal turn of phase meaning to establish the relevance of a piece of evidence through testimony, now it is completely meaningless.

Another peeve is a commonly misused word in advertising: Everyday.
It means dull, mundane, common and boring - Martha Stewart should know better, I would have thought.

[rearviewmirror]

'my bad'

[nole1]

"Make a long story short..."

[njpaddy]

F*** and all variations. Why can so few people today complete a sentence without using the F word? And women seem to be worse than guys.

[nobolowski]

Another thing they do is use English words or sentences to impress the audience. We have a rich vocabulary and there's no need to say "target" when we could say: obiettivo, bersaglio, mira, etc.

bersaglio.....is that where the Bersaglieri come from?


My wife CANNOT have a serious conversation without multiple uses of "do you know what I mean?" Sometimes after each sentence.
I try and irritate her with "I know what you mean" before she can start the next sentence but she's oblivious.

[malocchio]

'my bad'

YEAH !! That's another one making the rounds...who started that crap ?

[Face&Head]

F*** and all variations.

Even "shag" ?

[Argonaut]

My wife CANNOT have a serious conversation without multiple uses of "do you know what I mean?" Sometimes after each sentence.
I try and irritate her with "I know what you mean" before she can start the next sentence but she's oblivious.

That's hillarious!

[rickboone1]

Know what I'm sayin', or ya feel me?

Sorry, I haven't a clue what you're saying, you've just started speaking!

I can't stand misspelled words. Boy becomes boi.

[kingfisher]

F*** and all variations. Why can so few people today complete a sentence without using the F word? And women seem to be worse than guys.

Amen.

I've had enough of all the swearing already. My dad always said that people who don't have a decent vocabulary have to resort to constant use of profanity.


I also hate "irregardless." And "for all intensive purposes." There's a person I work with who uses the phrase "in and of itself" as a filler; in other words, in place of "um." Sometimes she says it 10 or 11 times in a single short conversation. It drives me crazy! But I doubt that many other people use this phrase; it seems to belong to her.

[roklein]

"as per"

[oc_in_fw]

Amen.

I've had enough of all the swearing already. My dad always said that people who don't have a decent vocabulary have to resort to constant use of profanity.


I also hate "irregardless." And "for all intensive purposes." There's a person I work with who uses the phrase "in and of itself" as a filler; in other words, in place of "um." Sometimes she says it 10 or 11 times in a single short conversation. It drives me crazy! But I doubt that many other people use this phrase; it seems to belong to her.

well, the f bomb is such a versatile word. It can be a noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, or a verb.

[OldSaw]

F*** and all variations. Why can so few people today complete a sentence without using the F word? And women seem to be worse than guys.

+ 1,000,006! I don't expect everyone to stop using all forms of profanity, but this one is so completely over used it's pathetic. It doesn't even have shock value any more.

My wife and I watched a "The Grey" last night and almost turned it off, as they seemed to be trying to out do "Scar Face" for most use of the "F" word.

[OldSaw]

well, the f bomb is such a versatile word. It can be a noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, or a verb.

Yes... for poorly educated people or those who want to sound poorly educated. There was a time in my life when I used it a lot and when I look back on those days I am very embarrassed.

[LarryDarrell]

+ 1,000,006! I don't expect everyone to stop using all forms of profanity, but this one is so completely over used it's pathetic. It doesn't even have shock value any more.

Agreed, I follow Oscar Wilde's maxim " A gentleman is never unintentionally rude."

[Gunney]

I very rarely will say Fu** but rather I much enjoy alternatives such as Feck, bugger, etc... Or my favourite exclaimation: "Bullocks!"

What bovvers me however is American spellings... get with the programme! :)