Phrases That Drive You Crazy RECOVERED
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ok i caught myself using a really annoying one today: no brainer
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good one!
I try to avoid using any of these (well, I don't try...I just don't use them), because these usually fall into 1 of 2 categories. They either make you sound like a menopausal Science teacher, or a 6 yr old that is trying to learn how to be cool from his parents & the sitcoms that they watch together on a weeknight & Nick Jr. or Disney & wants to be in a fake gang. Of ones you listed, I'm only occasionally guilty of using "at the end of the day." That was a popular expression when I lived in Britain, so it caught on a little. But, I rarely say it. There's a brother at my Cong. that says it at least like 5 times any time he's on stage. I don't use any of the others you mentioned. There's some things I say commonly...but, I don't think they count.
HOLLA!! - mostly extinct, but some people are still trying to hold onto this one
My grandmother likes to say, "and that you know" after every other sentence. No Nana... I really don't know! LOL
another really stupid one: "it is what it is..."
Of COURSE it IS what it IS! if it wasn't what it was, it wouldn't BE what it is!
how do ya turn a phrase?
god you're dumb... thank goodness for that ayn
others:
"that's your perception, that's not reality"
"that speaks volumes"
"circle back"
"qualify and quantify"
i can think of so many, let me have another conversation with my boss
haha... bosses are notorious for using stupid turns of phrase to try to make themselves seem smarter
100% correct
the only one i can think of now is "you can't have your cake and eat it too."
why not! just stupid
yeah i understand the phrase, it means someone wants to have it all... but it doesn't really make sense... whenever i get a piece of cake, i get it with the intention of eating it. i wouldn't bother getting the cake if i didn't think i could eat it. the phrase would make more sense if it was "he wants to have his cake and date a supermodel"... see THAT would make sense.
yeah it's not like anyone gets cake just for the sake of being in posession of cake.
unless you're a cake collector
Matty, I think I say like 95% of these phrases. Anywho, you still consider me a friend...technically. Basically, you need to do the math and see that at the end of the day you really need to just MAN UP.
Thanks much.
Tony Bastini
i make the exception for you because we're TKBs for life!
lol. yes we are. yesssss. weeeeee. areeeeeeeeee.
haha this is great. a lot of those bother me, too. but not as much as they bother you, i think.
i'll see if i can come up with any of my own
there's a lot of these used in the corporate world. you'll start noticing them more now.
Bush *tried* to use all of them. I think he was trying to sound natural by using these as a bridge in between things he was told to say. I tried to avoid listening to him speak.
something that makes me irrationally upset is when people say, "I'm just saying..."
oh! and, "if i had a nickel for every time..." that makes me mad too.
um... MAN UP IS CLASSIC! ill never let it die!
my new one that i use alot, since im out here is... "EAST COAST, SON" following any action that west coast people dont understand. It tends to bother people and annoy my co workers, which is why i OVER use it.
yeah, i can totally picture that