Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:34 PM

What cliches, hackneyed phrases make you cringe?

Mine:
Think outside the box
It is what it is
I had an epiphany

If I use any of the above, my friends know I 1) am being held hostage; or 2) am ready for nursing home

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121 replies	Author	Time	Post
What cliches, hackneyed phrases make you cringe? (Original post)	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	OP
Back in the day ....	VMA131Marine	Jan 2018	#1
"At the end of the day." nt	tblue37	Jan 2018	#67
I rather like it because it's uniquely descriptive of the bottom line	ailsagirl	Jan 2018	#74
"GROW the Economy"	hlthe2b	Jan 2018	#2
We are not pregant. WE are expecting a baby or even HAVING a baby. SHE is pregnant.	hedda_foil	Jan 2018	#15
EXACTLY	hlthe2b	Jan 2018	#16
The other one - baby bump.	sarge43	Jan 2018	#20
OMG YES!!! Baby bump is cringeworthy. (another word that should be banned.)	hedda_foil	Jan 2018	#21
I detest the obsession with filming "the bump" especially among celebrities	hlthe2b	Jan 2018	#23
Me, too. Agree totally	Ohiogal	Jan 2018	#109
Thank you!	Iris	Jan 2018	#41
At the end of the day	CurtEastPoint	Jan 2018	#3
Ugh hear that constantly	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#4
Me too, until I retired	CurtEastPoint	Jan 2018	#5
This message was self-deleted by its author	Freelancer	Jan 2018	#34
been there, done that....	dhill926	Jan 2018	#6
With all due respect, ...	JustABozoOnThisBus	Jan 2018	#7
"It is what it is"	FSogol	Jan 2018	#8
Most hated	Clarity2	Jan 2018	#9
Not a phrase or cliche, but a misuse	pandr32	Jan 2018	#10
As in "Anymore, the mail comes early?"	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#11
At least I won't say I committed a misnomer	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#13
Who says that?	pandr32	Jan 2018	#29
Trump just said some report about him was a "misnomer,"	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#52
I should have know it was tRump	pandr32	Jan 2018	#80
Ugggggh...yes!	pandr32	Jan 2018	#28
This message was self-deleted by its author	Freelancer	Jan 2018	#35
Always thought that was a Philly-ism.	Zoonart	Jan 2018	#76
Not my circus	Cirque du So-What	Jan 2018	#12
Reminds me of not my first rodeo	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#14
"Got your back"	wishstar	Jan 2018	#17
My supervisor always says that to us	lunatica	Jan 2018	#48
I hate that one too	RandomAccess	Jan 2018	#87
...and a very stable genius at that!	Submariner	Jan 2018	#18
Pretty much all of them. My esteem for a pundit or speaker immediately goes down when they use	Midwestern Democrat	Jan 2018	#19
Long list. Here's some.	Iggo	Jan 2018	#22
A few	ailsagirl	Jan 2018	#24
Connect the dots! Yes.	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#54
I don't mind "disingenuous" because it's a legitimate word	ailsagirl	Jan 2018	#56
Yes. The lawyer Bob Shapiro was clever to use it	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#63
Overuse of a word is crazy-making!!	ailsagirl	Jan 2018	#66
I Keep An On-going List of Trendy Slang Terms I Detest....	becca da bakkah	Jan 2018	#25
I hate "delish"	pamela	Jan 2018	#32
Let's have a convo about your preso	klook	Jan 2018	#100
now look...	lapfog_1	Jan 2018	#26
I know many people who don't even think inside the box.	Sneederbunk	Jan 2018	#27
LOL!	ailsagirl	Jan 2018	#57
"No good deed goes unpunished."	pamela	Jan 2018	#30
Yes-- it is the height of cynicism	ailsagirl	Jan 2018	#70
This one	Freddie	Jan 2018	#101
The American people want	maranadem	Jan 2018	#31
In terms of cliches in writing and speaking, I've been there, done that even when thinking...	NNadir	Jan 2018	#33
This message was self-deleted by its author	Freelancer	Jan 2018	#37
LOL!	lunatica	Jan 2018	#49
After that I am afraid to say anything!	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#50
May I use this as an example in my courses? I teach college English, and	tblue37	Jan 2018	#68
I'd consider it a badge of honor if you'd be my guest applying it to the babes in the woods...	NNadir	Jan 2018	#79
I got one that is off the hook/chain ...	mr_lebowski	Jan 2018	#115
Off the top of my head, I'm thinking this is the kiss of death for these posts...	NNadir	Jan 2018	#116
Woke.	kacekwl	Jan 2018	#36
Every time I hear that	Freddie	Jan 2018	#105
This message was self-deleted by its author	Freelancer	Jan 2018	#38
Never heard that one	doc03	Jan 2018	#55
"Believe me"	PJMcK	Jan 2018	#39
Hahahahaha! That's a trump special.	brush	Jan 2018	#45
This message was self-deleted by its author	Freelancer	Jan 2018	#40
"It is what it is" always bothered me	mvd	Jan 2018	#41
All good examples	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#59
When football sportscaster says..	MLAA	Jan 2018	#43
"At the end of the day." "Things of that nature." "It's a little of both."	brush	Jan 2018	#44
The feigned and insincere "Sorry" thrown out when they're not "sorry" at all- usually	NBachers	Jan 2018	#46
" doesn't suffer fools"	kairos12	Jan 2018	#47
"When you go to bed with Dogs....	ProudMNDemocrat	Jan 2018	#51
enough is enough, all due respect	doc03	Jan 2018	#53
all of them...	handmade34	Jan 2018	#58
The thing about "Think outside the box"	rock	Jan 2018	#60
"For shits & giggles."	Basic LA	Jan 2018	#61
yummy n/t	emulatorloo	Jan 2018	#62
Using "literally"	hurl	Jan 2018	#64
I literally died when you said that	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#65
My nine year old boy inserts it in literally every sentence.	Codeine	Jan 2018	#69
My 8 year boy was using literally all the tine.	CottonBear	Jan 2018	#81
Old School	utopian	Jan 2018	#71
Hmmmm now I have to do a new list	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2018	#72
I hate that one.	yardwork	Jan 2018	#93
"Have a good one..." for some reason bothers me	JDC	Jan 2018	#73
optics, pivot n/t	hibbing	Jan 2018	#75
"No problem"	choie	Jan 2018	#77
Yes!	klook	Jan 2018	#83
"We must become more nimble."	democratisphere	Jan 2018	#78
"It was a nightmare,"	klook	Jan 2018	#82
Along These Lines	RobinA	Jan 2018	#94
"Let me be honest with you."	Golden Raisin	Jan 2018	#84
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle --	RandomAccess	Jan 2018	#85
"It's all good,"	klook	Jan 2018	#86
"At the end of the day"	elfin	Jan 2018	#88
Its God's Will	Bayard	Jan 2018	#89
This message was self-deleted by its author	Codeine	Jan 2018	#90
Moving Forward! It's like every mid management douche now knows he has to work that in	brewens	Jan 2018	#91
The phrase, "No offense but..."	ChazII	Jan 2018	#92
Here's another:	choie	Jan 2018	#95
Everything	RobinA	Jan 2018	#96
Impact weather day. I don't know if this is just my local news channel trying to make this a thing	seaglass	Jan 2018	#97
Or 'how to make what's outside the everyone's kitchen window seem like news'	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Jan 2018	#98
Oh yeah! I just remembered one: "If true..."	Iggo	Jan 2018	#99
Nothing burger.	Squinch	Jan 2018	#102
Yep, that's another one.	Iggo	Jan 2018	#114
"Livin' the dream,"	klook	Jan 2018	#103
Born and bred	DUgosh	Jan 2018	#104
Cool beans	tymorial	Jan 2018	#106
Ut oh.....	Bayard	Jan 2018	#117
Makes me crazy lol	tymorial	Jan 2018	#119
The use of hashtag! in real world conversation.	Oneironaut	Jan 2018	#107
"Everything happens for a reason"	LuckyCharms	Jan 2018	#108
"A big nothingburger"	Ohiogal	Jan 2018	#110
I hate mistakes with such phrases more than any particular phrase ...	mr_lebowski	Jan 2018	#111
Light at the end of the tunnel.	lpbk2713	Jan 2018	#112
Back in the day	ashling	Jan 2018	#113
"Constitutional crisis."	HeartachesNhangovers	Jan 2018	#118
"Disruptive" anytime it's celebrated like a GOOD thing (i.e., from Tech Bros)	Blue_Tires	Jan 2018	#120
"Price point" which means exactly the same thing as "price".	HeartachesNhangovers	Jan 2018	#121

Response to MaryMagdaline (Original post)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:37 PM

VMA131Marine (3,971 posts)

1. Back in the day ....

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:57 PM

tblue37 (61,963 posts)

67. "At the end of the day." nt

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:22 PM

ailsagirl (22,265 posts)

74. I rather like it because it's uniquely descriptive of the bottom line

To me, it's a summation of what has gone before and what really matters. Sort of a retrospective.

For example, Denzel Washington writes:

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

Interestingly, though, I rarely use it!!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:44 PM

hlthe2b (98,732 posts)

2. "GROW the Economy"

"WE are Pregnant"

So many others, but that's a start

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:11 PM

hedda_foil (16,265 posts)

15. We are not pregant. WE are expecting a baby or even HAVING a baby. SHE is pregnant.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:12 PM

hlthe2b (98,732 posts)

16. EXACTLY

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Response to hedda_foil (Reply #15)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:34 PM

sarge43 (28,863 posts)

20. The other one - baby bump.

"SHE is pregnant." Right you are.

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Response to sarge43 (Reply #20)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:42 PM

hedda_foil (16,265 posts)

21. OMG YES!!! Baby bump is cringeworthy. (another word that should be banned.)

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:49 PM

hlthe2b (98,732 posts)

23. I detest the obsession with filming "the bump" especially among celebrities

I think it is demeaning as hell.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 11:45 AM

Ohiogal (29,280 posts)

109. Me, too. Agree totally

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Response to sarge43 (Reply #20)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:46 PM

Iris (15,523 posts)

41. Thank you!

I expressed my disgust with that term here years ago and was berated for it!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:45 PM

CurtEastPoint (18,164 posts)

3. At the end of the day

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:46 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

4. Ugh hear that constantly

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:48 PM

CurtEastPoint (18,164 posts)

5. Me too, until I retired

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:48 PM

dhill926 (15,828 posts)

6. been there, done that....

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:49 PM

JustABozoOnThisBus (23,046 posts)

7. With all due respect, ...

... followed by some disrespectful speech.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 01:51 PM

FSogol (45,014 posts)

8. "It is what it is"

Arrrghhhh. I hear it a dozen times a day.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:00 PM

Clarity2 (1,009 posts)

9. Most hated

“and whatnot”

Yes, I still hear people say it.

Just no.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:20 PM

pandr32 (10,694 posts)

10. Not a phrase or cliche, but a misuse

"Anymore" not used in the negative stands out to me in a way that makes me cringe. I understand that it is becoming more common--originating in certain areas within Midland America, but that doesn't make it correct.

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Response to pandr32 (Reply #10)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:35 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

11. As in "Anymore, the mail comes early?"

I'm guilty of that and did not even know it.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Reply #11)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:37 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

13. At least I won't say I committed a misnomer

On my taxes. God if that takes off, our language is as dead as our democracy.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Reply #13)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:11 PM

pandr32 (10,694 posts)

29. Who says that?

A Republican?

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Response to pandr32 (Reply #29)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:25 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

52. Trump just said some report about him was a "misnomer,"

Instead of a mistake or lie. I am afraid that will get picked up.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Reply #52)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:07 PM

pandr32 (10,694 posts)

80. I should have know it was tRump

His 'stable genius' showing through again. Whoops...must have picked that one up already myself.

I would bet on 'misnomer' as well.
Thanks for answering my question.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Reply #11)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:09 PM

pandr32 (10,694 posts)

28. Ugggggh...yes!

Even reading it made me cringe. Sorry.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:36 PM

Zoonart (10,899 posts)

76. Always thought that was a Philly-ism.

I heard that a lot when I lived there, a;so..." I'm dont it. " instead of I've finished.

My cringeworthy phrase is... "In the final analysis"... it portends a long droning explanation.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:36 PM

Cirque du So-What (24,725 posts)

12. Not my circus

Not my monkeys.

I have a coworker who uses this phrase so often that I picture him in clown makeup whenever I see him.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:38 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

14. Reminds me of not my first rodeo

Cringe!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:25 PM

wishstar (5,195 posts)

17. "Got your back"

Esp. after Sandra Bullock praised her husband Jesse saying "He's got my back" and shortly after he was revealed to be a total cheating backstabber.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:16 PM

lunatica (53,410 posts)

48. My supervisor always says that to us

And she's full of shit.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:48 PM

RandomAccess (5,210 posts)

87. I hate that one too

To me it's meaningless, esp. because the people who say that to others are rarely in a position to ACTUALLY have others' back.

Obama said it -- I think to Dreamers. How downright cruel.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:31 PM

Submariner (12,292 posts)

18. ...and a very stable genius at that!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:33 PM

Midwestern Democrat (769 posts)

19. Pretty much all of them. My esteem for a pundit or speaker immediately goes down when they use

some completely over-used to death phrase like "the Devil is in the Details", "At the End of the Day", "It is What it Is", etc - it automatically makes what they have to say seem banal.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Original post)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:48 PM

Iggo (47,077 posts)

22. Long list. Here's some.

Spot on.
Whackadoodle.
Ilk.
Vile.

I was gonna say "sociopath", but that one's more of a misuse than an overuse. Although here, it's definitely overused.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:56 PM

ailsagirl (22,265 posts)

24. A few

connect the dots
wrap my head/brain/whatever around it
moving forward (as opposed to moving backward?) redundant
no brainer
reach out

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:29 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

54. Connect the dots! Yes.

Someone coined that after 911 and we never got rid of it.

We inherited "disingenuous" from OJ trial. Cannot stand that word.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Reply #54)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:32 PM

ailsagirl (22,265 posts)

56. I don't mind "disingenuous" because it's a legitimate word

First recorded in 1645, according to dictionary.com

But if it reminded me of the OJ trial, I would probably feel the same as you!

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Response to ailsagirl (Reply #56)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:41 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

63. Yes. The lawyer Bob Shapiro was clever to use it

But its overuse makes me crazy.

"connect the dots" was brilliantly descriptive of our failure to connect isolated events before 911. Within 48 hours after 911 I could no longer bear to watch TV, not just because of the replaying of the horrors of that day, but because someone was going to say "connect the dots" every 2 minutes.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:55 PM

ailsagirl (22,265 posts)

66. Overuse of a word is crazy-making!!

Connect the dots reminds me of the coloring books that kids used to have-- a children's game. It sounds weird to me when I hear adults using it

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:00 PM

becca da bakkah (426 posts)

25. I Keep An On-going List of Trendy Slang Terms I Detest....

....Among those guaranteed to make my head explode are:

Take a listen. I hear this on news broadcasts all the time. You can take a look, but you can't take a listen.

Put on your big girl panties. Implying the person this is directed at isn't being mature and responsible, and needs to grow up. I find it insulting.

Cray-cray--for crazy. That's just silly
Convo--for conversation. What...you're so damn busy you don't have time to say the last 2 syllables!

And (for now anyway), va-cay. We all need a vacation from your VACAY!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:18 PM

pamela (3,469 posts)

32. I hate "delish"

Just say, or type out, "delicious" for fuck's sake. It's only three more letters.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:32 AM

klook (11,983 posts)

100. Let's have a convo about your preso

-- because saying the two extra syllables in "presentation" would waste precious seconds that we could be using trying to stay awake while discussing yet another set of meaningless PowerPoint charts.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:02 PM

lapfog_1 (28,212 posts)

26. now look...

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:03 PM

Sneederbunk (13,397 posts)

27. I know many people who don't even think inside the box.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:32 PM

ailsagirl (22,265 posts)

57. LOL!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:14 PM

pamela (3,469 posts)

30. "No good deed goes unpunished."

It's so cynical it depresses the shit out of me.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:09 PM

ailsagirl (22,265 posts)

70. Yes-- it is the height of cynicism

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:43 AM

Freddie (8,971 posts)

101. This one

Is often far too accurate though.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Original post)

Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:17 PM

maranadem (54 posts)

31. The American people want

Always means just the opposite

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:20 PM

NNadir (32,342 posts)

33. In terms of cliches in writing and speaking, I've been there, done that even when thinking...

...outside of the box, after a fashion, but not wanting to air my dirty laundry, I've bent over backwards to make my use of cliches to be the best thing since sliced bread, you can bet your bottom dollar - not to beat around the bush - that I should be given the benefit of the doubt since I know that I'm between a rock and a hard place when it comes to letting sleeping dogs lie, needless to say, when I try to show people that I'm a real Einstein, even if my rags to riches story hasn't actually lead me to being rich and famous, which is par for the course, of course, since I lie like a rug even if actually I am the salt of the earth but am still likely to reap what I sow, and I think that anyone trying to shoot the breeze with me will not see eye to eye with me about whether or not I am as sharp as a tack, even if it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, the fact is that I'll have to sink or swim with my attempt to share the unvarnished truth about my whole ball of wax and getting me to upset the apple cart on this practice will end up being an exercise in spinning my wheels in this day and age, it's not you, it's me, and I guess I should just throw in the towel because it's the same old story if I take the plunge on this task of not paving the road to hell with good intentions, which probably rings a bell with you, I'm on a roll here and I may have missed the boat on this task of not using cliches.

It is what it is.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:19 PM

lunatica (53,410 posts)

49. LOL!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:20 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

50. After that I am afraid to say anything!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:04 PM

tblue37 (61,963 posts)

68. May I use this as an example in my courses? I teach college English, and

I fight a losing battle every semester against the cliches that fill my students' essays.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:52 PM

NNadir (32,342 posts)

79. I'd consider it a badge of honor if you'd be my guest applying it to the babes in the woods...

...so to speak, because you must be banging your head against the wall trying to keep their eyes on the ball as luck would have it, and I never say never, although I'd be scared to death of a case of the pot calling the kettle black but if you play your cards right and don't judge a book by its cover, and forgive and forget, you can probably make their writing as fit as a fiddle and get them over the hump by using that ace in the hole though this is not written in stone, especially on the kinds of stones people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw.

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Response to NNadir (Reply #79)

Sun Jan 7, 2018, 06:40 PM

mr_lebowski (33,643 posts)

115. I got one that is off the hook/chain ...

Obviously the lunatics are running the asylum and I'm going all in, doubling-down and betting my last dollar that you're dealing off the bottom of the deck and that this will not stand ... but as you well know I'm playing with house money so even if I just let the chips fall where they may, I won't be walking the plank anytime soon ... and that's not just shooting from the hip or casting pearls before swine cause your odds are about as good as you winning the lottery, so you'll keep the pedal to the metal if you know what's good for you.

You'd best believe I can do this all the live-long day, which is to say if the past is prologue to what the future might hold in store and you get down to brass tacks there's really no telling what a man might do when he's pushed to the edge, with his back up against the wall!

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 08:01 PM

NNadir (32,342 posts)

116. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking this is the kiss of death for these posts...

...and I'm not going to pull any punches, or attempt to pull the wool over your eyes, because you've brought us back to square one with this, and I hope you won't think I'm yanking your chain, but the naked truth - as naked as a jaybird - when I say that it's no skin off my back is that clearly you've put your nose to the grindstone and your last ditch effort, your last hurrah, and it may be the straw that broke the camel's back, and thus maybe my post is more or less the spitting image of yours, and even if we've been over this ground before, still I don't think we should put all our eggs in one basket, so to speak, and should be back in the saddle as quick as lightening and get down to brass tacks with cliche speak.

I hope I'm not spilling the beans here, but I thought I should put this on the table.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:31 PM

kacekwl (6,886 posts)

36. Woke.

He's woke , she's woke , you're woke. Drives me nuts.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:49 AM

Freddie (8,971 posts)

105. Every time I hear that

It's "huh?" My age showing.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:31 PM

doc03 (33,887 posts)

55. Never heard that one

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:34 PM

PJMcK (20,828 posts)

39. "Believe me"

"That I can tell you."

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:02 PM

brush (50,013 posts)

45. Hahahahaha! That's a trump special.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:46 PM

mvd (64,972 posts)

41. "It is what it is" always bothered me

More:

"Let's unpack this" - been on the news lately

"Fake news"

"Paradigm shift"

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:33 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

59. All good examples

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:01 PM

MLAA (15,889 posts)

43. When football sportscaster says..

“The reason he dropped the pass was he lost concentration”

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:01 PM

brush (50,013 posts)

44. "At the end of the day." "Things of that nature." "It's a little of both."

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:11 PM

NBachers (16,335 posts)

46. The feigned and insincere "Sorry" thrown out when they're not "sorry" at all- usually

pretend cover for some rude move for which they're obviously not "sorry," and keep right on doing whatever they're "sorry" for.

"My bad" which is meant to self-absolve the offender for doing something wrong to someone else. It's a "no apology intended, I did it, I'm getting away with it, so fuck you" statement.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:12 PM

kairos12 (12,491 posts)

47. " doesn't suffer fools"

Hate that phrase.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:23 PM

ProudMNDemocrat (14,961 posts)

51. "When you go to bed with Dogs....

You wake up with Fleas."

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:27 PM

doc03 (33,887 posts)

53. enough is enough, all due respect

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:32 PM

handmade34 (22,728 posts)

58. all of them...

I used tell my daughter when she complained, "it builds character" ...she hated it and I must admit that I do as well

or the infamous "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:34 PM

rock (13,218 posts)

60. The thing about "Think outside the box"

is that the people saying it (the poor managers) are the ones who built the box in the first place! They first lay out the rules in ways designed to be sure that your productivity will go down and be of low quality.

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Basic LA (879 posts)

61. "For shits & giggles."

I think it's making an unfortunate comeback. Hadn't heard it in many years. Don't even know why I hate it so much.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:40 PM

emulatorloo (43,256 posts)

62. yummy n/t

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:42 PM

hurl (905 posts)

64. Using "literally"

when they mean "figuratively"

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:48 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

65. I literally died when you said that

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:05 PM

Codeine (25,586 posts)

69. My nine year old boy inserts it in literally every sentence.

Literally.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:25 PM

CottonBear (21,555 posts)

81. My 8 year boy was using literally all the tine.

I don’t know where he picked it up. I asked him to stop using it in conversation.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:12 PM

utopian (1,074 posts)

71. Old School

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:18 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,733 posts)

72. Hmmmm now I have to do a new list

What cliches and hackneyed phrases do I use that drive everyone else crazy? Seems that I use quite a few

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 12:50 AM

yardwork (58,255 posts)

93. I hate that one.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:19 PM

JDC (9,839 posts)

73. "Have a good one..." for some reason bothers me

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:26 PM

hibbing (9,888 posts)

75. optics, pivot n/t

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:43 PM

choie (4,031 posts)

77. "No problem"

instead of "you're welcome" - drives me damn crazy!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:40 PM

klook (11,983 posts)

83. Yes!

I want to say, "Did I say there was a problem? Maybe you're the one with the fricken problem!"

Oh yeah, I hate "fricken" as well, but I'm sure somebody else has already covered that.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:48 PM

democratisphere (17,235 posts)

78. "We must become more nimble."

Corporate babble.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:34 PM

klook (11,983 posts)

82. "It was a nightmare,"

particularly when used about situations that are in reality mild annoyances. For example, "The line outside the club was a total nightmare! It must have taken us 10 minutes to get to our table!"

I started noticing this one about 1999. Now it's so commonplace that most people wouldn't even regard it as unusual.

And there's still "I could care less," when of course the speaker means he or she couldn't care less!

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 01:00 AM

RobinA (9,662 posts)

94. Along These Lines

When people say they are “devastated.” You mean your entire family just perished in a fiery car crash? No, my yoga class was cancelled.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:43 PM

Golden Raisin (4,542 posts)

84. "Let me be honest with you."

Oh, so you haven't been so far?

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:44 PM

RandomAccess (5,210 posts)

85. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle --

1. almost never actually true so hides the truth
2. aids and abets the insidious cause of false equivalency

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:46 PM

klook (11,983 posts)

86. "It's all good,"

uttered after somebody apologizes, often at work. In this context, "It's all good" usually means "Oh, fuck! Now I have to clean up your mess, plus do my own fuckin' job! I wanna strangle you right now!!"

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:48 PM

elfin (6,262 posts)

88. "At the end of the day"

It seems that everyone interviewed uses this phrase. Once I noticed it, I started doing a mental countdown until the interviewee or analyst says it. Happens nearly every time. Wish I hadn't noticed it - drives me crazy.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 07:57 PM

Bayard (20,107 posts)

89. Its God's Will

Makes me clinch my teeth. An excuse for everything.

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 09:52 PM

brewens (12,709 posts)

91. Moving Forward! It's like every mid management douche now knows he has to work that in

to his presentation! Then the freakin' CEO says it and looks even dumber!

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 10:59 PM

ChazII (6,122 posts)

92. The phrase, "No offense but..."

Something offensive is about to be said.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 01:03 AM

choie (4,031 posts)

95. Here's another:

"Have a blessed day" or in response to the question "how are you?' you get the response "I'm blessed" AAARRRGHGHHHHH!

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 01:07 AM

RobinA (9,662 posts)

96. Everything

happens for a reason. No it doesn’t, generally the stuff people say that about is just pretty damn random.

Also, overnight everything seems to have become a “conversation.” “If he wants to be part of the conversation he better step up his game before Olympics.”

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 08:00 AM

seaglass (8,165 posts)

97. Impact weather day. I don't know if this is just my local news channel trying to make this a thing

but I am sooooo sick of this phrase. It is used in every weather forecast to describe a day in which the weather will have some negative effect on something/someone.

It's going to snow - impact weather day
It's going to be freezing cold - impact weather day
It's going to be windy - impact weather day
It's going to rain - impact weather day

Any day that is not 70 and sunny I guess is an impact weather day. I live in the Northeast, we get it!

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 09:14 AM

discntnt_irny_srcsm (18,338 posts)

98. Or 'how to make what's outside the everyone's kitchen window seem like news'

We love you TV news writers but...
...sometimes you stink.

(Sorry Febreze TV commercial writers)

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:24 AM

Iggo (47,077 posts)

99. Oh yeah! I just remembered one: "If true..."

Try "If this is true" or "If this is accurate" or "If this turns out to be true".

Come on, people. You're not cave men.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:44 AM

Squinch (49,303 posts)

102. Nothing burger.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 03:24 PM

Iggo (47,077 posts)

114. Yep, that's another one.

Blech.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:45 AM

klook (11,983 posts)

103. "Livin' the dream,"

said in a deadpan voice to indicate "My life is hell and I won't relent until you're as miserable as I am."

I admit, the first couple of times I heard this expression, I thought it was cute. It wears thin pretty quickly, though.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:48 AM

DUgosh (3,029 posts)

104. Born and bred

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:55 AM

tymorial (3,433 posts)

106. Cool beans

Amazeballs is right up there too.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 08:04 PM

Bayard (20,107 posts)

117. Ut oh.....

Guilty. Holdover from college....

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 09:22 PM

tymorial (3,433 posts)

119. Makes me crazy lol

I don't know why.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 11:21 AM

Oneironaut (4,968 posts)

107. The use of hashtag! in real world conversation.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 11:43 AM

LuckyCharms (15,883 posts)

108. "Everything happens for a reason"

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 11:47 AM

Ohiogal (29,280 posts)

110. "A big nothingburger"

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 01:33 PM

mr_lebowski (33,643 posts)

111. I hate mistakes with such phrases more than any particular phrase ...

Like when someone says 'that doesn't jive with what we know' ... the damn word is JIBE!!! You misheard (or whoever exposed you to it ... got it wrong) and have been saying it wrong, probably forever.

Another major annoyance to me is when people use the word 'anymore' as if it were synonymous with 'nowadays', when it actually means 'any longer'.

Like 'Anymore we go to the beach on Sundays instead of Church'. That kinda shit. Drives me bonkers.

Also hate 'Which Begs The Question ...'

Cause this: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/53/Begging-the-Question

AFA what was actually asked in the OP, I'll go with 'Have your cake and eat it too'.

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Sun Jan 7, 2018, 02:33 PM

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