Phrases you wish would just go away??

[Sparkly]

Are there any common words or phrases you just can't STAND hearing anymore?

Here are a few of mine:

1. "From the get-go," especially when pronounced as "git-go." How about just, "from the start" or "from the beginning?"

2. "At the end of the day." How about "ultimately" or "in the long run" or "when it comes right down to it" or something?

3. "Try and" in place of "try to."

4. When commentators use the word "look" over and over before making a statement. "Look: this race is about..." "Look: the American people want..." etc.

5. And of course, the word "Democrat" used as an adjective.

What words or phrases make you scream?

[thefool_wa]

1. Ironically

I get harrassed all the time for using "Ultimately"

I would like to see the complete abolition of "Keep it real." - its the dumbest expression I've ever heard and typically only used by those who are doing exactly the opposite.

[Patiod]

24/7

don't know why it annoys me

[flvegan]

2. "Owned" or PWN3D, as in "he got owned"

I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate that.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

15. Damn, me and a bunch of other teens just got pwned.

:cry: my 133tness!








n00b.

[flvegan]

24. *shakes fist* You darn kids!

Always walking across my lawn!

I DO sound like a fogie, don't I?

[LeftyMom]

23. STFU, n00b

:P

[flvegan]

26. Sit on it, Potsie.

[LeftyMom]

29. I don't understand your old people jokes, honey.

:P

[liberalpress]

3. It isn't really a phrase..

... it's people who interview themselves, like this:

Am I annoyed by people who intervoies themselves? Yes. Do I expect it to stop anytime soon? No

[Bunny]

6. What is that called???? I HATE that!!

Surely there is a word or phrase for that. :shrug:

[eppur_se_muova]

36. Autodebriefing? Although that could be misinterpreted ... nt

[Sparkly]

7. OMG, Yes!!!

I hate that, too!!

[Ann Arbor Dem]

8. It's called a "Rumsfeld"

;)

[SharonRB]

45. LOL

I didn't see your post when I posted mine!

We Michigan people must think alike.

[SharonRB]

44. I think that's called "Rummyizing" n/t

[Capn Amerika]

4. "Fair and Balanced"

I wish the network along with it's followers would disappear too.

[mockmonkey]

5. Please make this go away

"That's what I'm talking about.":puke:

[BarenakedLady]

9. "Don't worry. Be happy."

:headbang:

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Look, you bring this up, but from the get go, you know damned well that ....

at the end of the day, these phrases will still be in common use. Why not just try and go along to get along. You're like everyone in the Democrat party. You always want to try and fix things.

[MrsMatt]

34. fo shizzle n/t

[NewWaveChick1981]

11. All of the above...and my personal favorite:

"Kick him/her/it/whatever to the curb!" :puke: I'd like to kick people who use that phrase somewhere where it really HURTS! :P

Oh, and another stupid, ignorant phrase: "He done her wrong." :grr: :mad: I actually heard a story in the MSM in which the reporter said, "Mrs. So-and-So was angry because her husband did her wrong." WRONG!!! :puke:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Damned skippy

Everyone knows it's the other way around. :P

[Orsino]

12. References to "the American people" as a monolith.

No, a Democratic majority doesn't mean that everyone has rejected *'s war. When a politician or pundit generalizes in this way, it is particularly irksome.

[HERVEPA]

14. "GROW" as a transitive verb except...

referring to flowers.

I hate "grow the business"

[OrwellwasRight]

47. Couldn't agree more!!

That kills me. You know that Clinton started it though: "grow the economy." I HATE that. You make the economy grow, you don't grow it!!! :banghead:

[johnnie]

16. Not really a phrase, but..

The overuse of the term "strawman". It is a weak debate term that is way overused. Sometimes I see people use it for their whole debate. "Blah blah blah is a strawman and you know it!...n/t"

[jakefrep]

17. Git R Done

[Capn Amerika]

68. I wish it's creator would disappear.

[fishwax]

18. I like "try and," but I'm totally with you on number 4

It often strikes me as unnecessarily aggressive.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

19. newspeople who can't say it's flooding if it rains

They say "widespread ponding".

Since when is "Pond" a verb??? ARRGGHH!!!!

[sammythecat]

20. "We were misled", and "misinformation"

I like "We didn't do our job" and "lie" better.

[Lyric]

21. I'm dense, but I've never understood the Democrat thing.

Why is it insulting? Beyond the bad grammar, I mean.

[CTyankee]

27. I think the RW just wanted to separate the Democratic Party from

the word "democratic" because it is often used as in "our democratic form of government." For some reason, the wingers seem to think that saying "Democrat Party" it makes us look not, um, democratic. Surely that makes a lot of sense to you!:shrug:

[thefool_wa]

32. "let me put it this way"

I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT!

Put it any way you chose, you don't have to make it sound like whatever you are saying is being dumbed down for me!

:wtf:

[Sparkly]

28. It's used consciously -- I THINK Gingrich started it, but I'm not sure...

It doesn't sound as good as "Democratic," it's intended to make a disconnect from "democratic" with the small "d" (as in "democracy"), and I think they like to say it with a sharp emphasis on "rat." (Remember that ad?) Especially, "DimmocRAT."

Bugs the Hell out of me.

[NewJeffCT]

63. 2 reasons

1) Democrat party polls a lot worse with focus groups than Democratic party. It's been a concerted effort by Republics to use Democrat party.

2) And, the official name of the part is the Democratic Party, not the Democrat Party.

[azmouse]

22. 'Basically' and 'in terms of'

They're sooo overused!

[JackBeck]

25. "At the end of the day..."

I've noticed the past few years this has become quite popular to say. I don't know where it came from and how it took over but I wish it would go away.

[CTyankee]

30. "Don't go there!" We shouldn't go there. n/t

[CTyankee]

31. And oh yes, the ever popular "You know and I know that..."

Also, the "ever popular" while I'm at it!

[SOteric]

33. "First Off."

It's a useless phrase as most of us are quite capable of figuring out where the ensuing statement stands ordinally, and no one thinks it matters. It tends to serve only as notice that the person using the phrase is about to behave peevishly.

[Initech]

35. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "Cut and run" yet.

I swear, the republicans sound like fucking sheep when they say that.

[mcscajun]

37. In no particular order, and I'm sure I've left some out that I'll think of

later...

"grow the business"

"whatever" (When used as an entire sentence.)

"git R done"

"back in the day"

"Democrat" used for "Democratic"

"irregardless"

"E.V.O.O." (I don't care who says it, Rachel Ray, Mario Batali, Emeril, Whoever!)

[CTyankee]

58. OK, I'll bite. What is E.V.O.O. ?

Must be something to do with food...

[mcscajun]

61. Extra Virgin Olive Oil

:)

[CTyankee]

65. Of course! I guess I don't watch enough TV cooks programs.

I used to like Martha Stewart but she never said EVOO. I can't imagine her even thinking it.

[mcscajun]

73. Yeah, I don't watch as many as I used to.

But I could never get into Martha.

[CTyankee]

76. I liked Martha, back when...

She was kinda strange in her own way. I just liked her, don't know why. I think she was railroaded into her jail sentence. I felt it was a fraud.

[The Wielding Truth]

38. "Freedom isn't free". It makes no sense. We aren't fighting for freedom.

We are wasting our people and our resources on an unstudied war designed to supply chaos so Bush Co can make money..

[edbermac]

39. President George W Bush

x(

[Aristus]

40. "Mistakes were made."

It is the passive voice, which I hate; And it contains no pronouns or indefinite articles so we can tell who made the mistakes. It's so B*sh, Cheney and Michael Brown don't have to say: "We fucked up, big time."

[CTyankee]

41. "Entering a rehabilitation facilty" (after a DUI arrest)

"I should have known it was coming because of _______" (my divorce, the death of whoever, my stress, fill in the blank).

This just happened to one of our state legislators, unfortunately, so I do not want to make light of the situation. It just seems to be a common theme whenever, ahem, certain things happen...

[skygazer]

42. "Moving forward..."

Everyone in my company must have recently attended a meeting in which this one was used because they're ALL spouting it. Drives me nuts.

What's wrong with, "From now on..."

I told my buddy that I'm going to start using, "Henceforth and forevermore..." instead.

[sampsonblk]

48. I second this one!

Entirely annoying. In what other direction might we move? What a silly code phrase. You can tell when people have just heard it, because they use it over and over.

[Jade Fox]

53. My boss uses "going forward"..

or sometimes just "forward". :crazy: My previous boss used the word "timely" this way: "We need to do this timely." Whaaaa?

[CTyankee]

59. Great idea! We should all revive a few of those wonderful

old sayings. Perhaps we could go back to Shakespeare and Keats just to make things interesting.

[SharonRB]

43. Went missing or gone missing

drive me nuts!

Can't they just say "disappeared" or "is missing"?

[ashling]

46. These come to mind:

1. enthused (because its wrong)

2. neither here nor there (because my brother used to say it ALL THE DAMNED TIME ! ! !)

3. read used as a noun (its so Katie Couric)

4. back in the day (just because)

I'm sure there are others . . . I'll get back to ya . . .

[ashling]

55. Oh, and this one used by one of our celebrities:

"I call bullshit"

[montanto]

49. I'm on a "learning curve."

I don't know why people can't just say they are learning.

[bluethruandthru]

50. Spot on....

and Truth to Power

[OrwellwasRight]

51. "Push the envelope"

WTF does that mean anyway?? I mean, I know it is used as a way to say that someone is possibly "going too far," taking a big risk, or flirting with breaking the rules/law, etc., but WTF does that have to do with pushing envelopes?

You don't need to push envelopes anyway. They are generally light and easy to lift.

And the only people who might be said to "push envelopes" are mail carriers and mail room workers, neither of whom seem particularly cutting edge or risk-taking types.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

52. From my perspective

at this point in time
your guess is as good as mine

:puke:

[quiet.american]

54. Mine would be, "IMHO," and "just my two cents."

For the love of Mike, why not just say what one has to say and let it stand.

[Sparkly]

56. Two more: "crowds" and "communities"

As in, "The MoveOn-dot-org Crowd" and, my favorite, "The Terrorist Community." Yes, I actually heard that said.

Also, I'm guilty of several of the words and phrases that some people mentioned above! :hide:

[querelle]

57. Like

That is so like annoying when people like insert that word in like every sentence.

Q

[bif]

60. Anytime soon

NPR seems to end almost every story with that phrase.

[HughBeaumont]

62. "Rock" as a substitute for the words "wear" or "sport"

ie . . . "he's rockin' the neo-Big Country mullet" OFUCKOFF with your SPIN magazine journalist bullshit.

l33t. ALL of it. It's masturbation. And as Whats-her-face says: taking the vowels out of words doesn't always make them cool.

"HOllah" No, don't hollah here, you're going to wake the dog, dumbass.

MBA-nese. All of it. Bottom line, at the end of the day, your paradigm poses no value added to this kind of cross-referenced inside-the-box way of re-inventing the wheel. It is what it is. Now run THAT up your fucking flagpole and see who salutes, guy.

[NoPasaran]

64. "Gift" as a verb

What's wrong with "give"?

[doc03]

66. "We report you decide" for starters.

"Exactly"
"With all due respect"
"I mean"

[ikojo]

67. One of my biggest peeves...

"You know what I mean?" or in its shorter version, "know what I mean?"

[doc03]

69. Even worser an even shorter version "I mean"

[GenDem]

70. Breaking through the "glass ceiling"

Having one's head break a ceiling made of glass sounds dangerous and very painful. Instead of a nice promotion this would lead to an ambulance trip to an ER.

[MissMarple]

71. "No problem", when I say thank you.

It is so very good to know that I have not been a problem. :eyes:

Also, "first and foremost", I just hate that.

[MassLiberal]

80. Yes--whatever happened to

"you're welcome"? I think the shift from "you're welcome" to "no problem" is a kind of cultural phenomenon (or at least indicative of one).

[Road Scholar]

72. "Now I'm going to be honest with you." (yeah right)

:shrug:

[mcscajun]

74. Another set of annoying words...back-formations.

Back-formation: a word formed by subtraction of a real or supposed affix from an already existing longer word.

Examples:
Incent - back-formation of incentive. Even uglier is the forward-formation of incent to incentivize.
(Reminds me, I hate UTILIZE when USE will do.)

Insurge - back-formation of insurgence (you know what this one's responsible for, don't you? "Surge")

[misanthrope]

75. "Like" as every other word...

..."you know;"

"I mean;"

"Know what I'm saying;"

"Know what I mean;"

"Back in the day."

[BlueJazz]

77. A poor person is a filthy crooked criminal....A rich person makes...

"Errors in Judgement"


:mad:

[EnviroBat]

78. AWESOME!

[Sacajawea]

79. "Not for nothing...."

:screams, pulls hair out:

[MassLiberal]

81. "old school"

to refer to something that happened last week.