Are There Current Phrases You Are Tired of Hearing?

[Sneederbunk]

Some of mine: Deep dive. Reach out. Grill marks.

[Generic Brad]

1. Social Distancing

March of 2020 was the first time I heard the team. I am near the point where I never want to hear it again.

[True Dough]

2. You nailed it with "deep dive"

You can throw "unpack" in there as well. As in, "Let's unpack that statement."

[mitch96]

7. +1. newspeak. nt

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Any variation on the 'in my wheelhouse' theme

I’m tempted to ask the next person who uses this trite phrase exactly WTF *is* in your wheelhouse, if anything.

[mitch96]

8. +1 again newspeak.. Oh and the upward tilt at the end of a sentence like you are asking a question

but not... Aussies and 20 somethings do it a lot.
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[grumpyduck]

14. That upward tilt at the end of a comment

drives me nuts.

[Laffy Kat]

59. My youngest son had a teacher who would up-speak.

It drove him nuts.

[zanana1]

72. There are words that drive me crazy.

Words like "joolery, nucular and funner". I was an English teacher, but it should drive every literate person nuts.

[yonder]

17. Years ago, I noticed that upward, questioning, inflection

with a statement, happens a lot with folks from the South or who speak with a drawl. Don't know if others do it also but that's where I mostly notice it.

[Leith]

22. I want to ask those people

if they are asking me or telling me.

It's especially bad when a well-educated, mature, knowledgeable, and - sorry - female spokesperson is discussing a serious subject.

I'm not being sexist. If you think so, please post a clip or two where men are doing it.

[Patterson]

24. This seems to have slowed down, in my opinion.

[Claire Oh Nette]

31. Vocal Fry

It's a tendency to end with an upnote, a questioning. WOmen are usually guilty of this. Irritating.

It's up there with the tag question after any given statement.

"I left the mail on the banister."
"You did?"

A kind of insidious gaslighting....

[yonder]

39. Man, I'm definitely guilty of the tag question thing

except it is "really?" for me. I always thought of it as a lazy acknowledgement to what someone said rather than asking a detail question. Same thing as "uh huh?"

"really?"

[Claire Oh Nette]

41. The did you, it is? verification is insidious...

A: Your password is invalid, hon.
B: It is?Try this one.

A: It's also invalid.
B: It is? OK, use this.

A; Passwords must have this bizarre combination of letters numbers and such.
B: It does?


A: The car needs gas, the light went off on the way home.
B: It does? It did?


No dear, I'm just making shit up to fuck with you...

Pro tip, it gets old.

[yonder]

42. It does?

heh, heh

[Claire Oh Nette]

43. Not when you do it of course....

[vercetti2021]

4. Bet

Like the fuck is that? Just say okay. Bet?! UGH!

[bahboo]

5. I still have issues with "impact" instead of "affect"....

definitely impacts my overall mood....

[3catwoman3]

26. Me, too.

See my comment #24.

[3catwoman3]

27. Me, too.

See my comment #25.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

6. tRump 2024

[Fla Dem]

9. Doesn't irritate me, just think it's stupid. "We'll discuss on the other side"

A number of news folks use this phrase when they have a video to play while interviewing a guest commentator.
They'll introduce the video then say, "We'll discuss on the other side".

The other side of what; the moon, the room, the highway? Why not just say when it's over? The video doesn't have sides. Or just don't say anything. Introduce the video, play it and then discuss when it's over.

[mitch96]

47. "The other side of what" I always thought it was the other side of the upcoming break...nt

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Optics, y'all. /nt

[Sneederbunk]

12. That would include bad look.

[CurtEastPoint]

11. No problem. Bandwidth. At the end of the day. 'ppl' in texting. Stupid spellings like 'smol.'

[luv2fly]

13. Any post ending in FTW

Rarely are they THAT entertaining.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Yes I find that incredibly irritating

False races created by someone who has little idea of what's going on

[Iggo]

64. For my entire childhood and half my adult life, that meant Fuck The World

Still takes me a second to code-switch whenever I see it.

[orleans]

65. i just read that FTW backwards & saw WTF; then i saw your post and thought WTF?

had to go back and re-read it; oh... for the win.

i'm tired (and apparently i get a bit goofy when i'm tired)

[SWBTATTReg]

15. It is what it is.

So overused...

[Haggard Celine]

16. I hate that one too!

Also, "at the end of the day." And "significant other."

[Paladin]

33. Absolutely hate it. More accurate to say "It IS what it ISN'T." (nt)

[Orrex]

35. A buddy of mine had a fantastic response to that

Years ago, in reference to some annoying policy at work, a supervisor sagely noted "It is what it is."

"Yes," said my friend. "But do you know what it is?"


There was no reply.

[SWBTATTReg]

40. Good response...I'll use it myself now!

[smirkymonkey]

38. Ugh! I hate that one!

[LakeArenal]

18. It was stolen.

[bottomofthehill]

19. Let's take this conversation off line

[yonder]

21. This one's not current but has ALWAYS bugged me:

'touch base'. I still hear it sometimes.

[Orrex]

36. My aunt used to say that decades ago.

Also "we'll make it work."

"Want to meet for lunch on Thursday?"

"Yes, let's make it work."

[zipplewrath]

23. Take a listen

Mostly on CNN, but too many other anchors use it as well.

And I got really tired of the word "unprecedented" during the last administration.

[3catwoman3]

25. Impactful - I know it's only a word and not a full phrase, but...

...it irritates the hell out of me.

Why not just use influential?

[conscientiouscitizen]

28. That's a great question

1. That’s a great question
2. I’m old enough to remember when ...
3. Unpack that
4. Not in a vacuum
5. Back in the day
6. At the end of the day
7. A lot on your plate
8.Standing around the water cooler
9. Stay in your lane
10. Cancel Culture
11. going forward

[CTyankee]

51. But I DO like "At the end of the day we're all dead."

Usually, that stops the conversation for just a minute as folks figure that into the conversation.

[Totally Tunsie]

29. Nothingburger!

Can't stand it!

[rickford66]

30. This has a lot of moving parts.

Hunker down
chopper (I never heard anyone use that term when I was in the Navy)
drill down (referring to solving a problem)

[jmowreader]

32. Kiddo and doggo

[Ron Obvious]

34. Lots, especially business lingo

But I also really dislike "hating on", partially for the extraneous preposition but also because it doesn't seem to be uses to mean nothing stronger than mild dislike.

Sorry to hate on a that phrase (blech!)

[Orrex]

37. I've always hated "sea change" as a deliberately coined corporate buzzword

And then I accidentally discovered that it dates back at least as far as The Tempest, and I hated it even more.

Thanks a lot, Shakespeare.

[UTUSN]

44. "Both sides do it."

[SleeplessinSoCal]

45. "No worries".

Who started that one?

[mitch96]

48. Aussies I think... As in "No worries, Mate"...nt

[Second Skin]

46. Can you site your sources?

I was never a diligent note taker and I'm tired of taking screen shots of everything i read.....In my head I'm thinking ~ i read it somewhere, maybe you can remind me after you've read it for yourself. But Oatmeal IS better than Creme O Wheat!

[North Shore Chicago]

49. My personal peccadillos

* "Adulting"

* "Riiiiight?"

* "Woke"

[blogslug]

50. "clap back"

I do not like that phrase.

[malthaussen]

52. So many I don't know where to begin...

but I'll begin anyway with "at the end of the day" and "going forward."

-- Mal

[Harker]

67. You're confusing me. n/t

[PennyC]

53. "You need to..."

When the speaker really means "I want you to..."

And "right now."

And , of course, "So" as an opener.

[wnylib]

54. Asking questions that have an obvious answer.

You wear your hair shoulder length for a few years and one day walk into your workplace with a pixie cut. "Oh, did you get your hair cut?"

I walked into a bank when snow was falling heavily. My head and coat had a layer of snow on them. The bank had large, glass double doors with a clear view of the outside. A teller said, "Is it snowing?" I said, "No. Why do you ask?"

The following irritations are grammatical.

Using "I" as the object of a preposition, as in "between you and I." Or, "He gave it to Dave and I." "Are you coming with Jane and I?"

Should be "between you and me;" "to Dave and me;" "with Jane and me."

"Should of" instead of "should have." What sounds like "should of" when spoken is actually "should've" when written. It's a contraction of "should have."

[TxGuitar]

55. I and me really grate

Especially when in a professional setting with people you know are smart enough and/or educated enough to know better

[wnylib]

57. I think the misuse comes from being corrected

in childhood by teachers. Children often say things like, "Jim and me played baseball." Their grade school teacher corrects them by modeling "Jim and I." The children then get the idea that they should always say "I" instead of "me," without understanding the difference between "I" as a subject and "me" as an object.

[TxGuitar]

56. Curated and hand picked

And worse--hand curated.
Nauseous/nauseated
The previously mentioned using I and me incorrectly
The way pundits answer questions with an unrelated comment and then say "Look" and answer the question

[Laffy Kat]

58. I was also going to say "reach out."

Any MBA vernacular is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

[grumpyduck]

60. I detest that expression.

Don't know why, but it really irks me.

[Skittles]

61. Thanks in advance

stupid

[Coventina]

71. It's passive aggressiveness.

I hate that!

[frogmarch]

62. skill set nt

[Iggo]

63. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

[Maxheader]

66. I've had dogs...

That would react to voice inflection, in the command....

[Harker]

68. It's all good.

No, it isn't

[jcgoldie]

69. "Cancel culture"

Had a similar feeling 25 yrs ago about “political correctness”.

[Niagara]

70. Awhile ago I stopped watching the news since

MSNBC refers to Joe Biden as "The President", and not "President Biden".


I realize that we're 4 months into the Biden Presidency, but when the term "The President" is used I still continue to have a wave of terror that fills my chest for a brief moment. Then I have to tell myself that Joe is the President and the wave of terror slowly disappears. I don't know what anxiety feels like, but if I had to guess, this feeling would be it.


My only wish is that they would refer to him as President Biden.