Phrases I NEVER want to hear again

[Buttoneer]

"Go big, or go home"

What's yours?

[Klarkashton]

1. Thinking out of the box

[lastlib]

13. Yeah---it's so 20th-century!

In the 21st century, you've got to thnk outside the TESSERACT!




(Good luck with that.........)

[True Dough]

23. At this point,

anyone who mutters "thinking outside the box" clearly is not "thinking outside the box," just relying on a cliche.

[biophile]

2. "President Trump said..."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. "Eat your kill" 🤬

[FalloutShelter]

4. "I didn't vote for this."

[Buttoneer]

5. "I gotchu" "We got this" "You got this" "I got this"

[SalamanderSleeps]

6. "Let's matrix this."

[kerouac2]

7. It is what it is

It is what it is...

It's such a white flag of surrender thing to say.

[FoxNewsSucks]

9. I've always hated that one

[happybird]

10. Or it can be acceptance of something you cannot change

It's not always a negative saying.

[lastlib]

11. It's a vapid, ridiculous tautology.

FFS, tell us WHAT it is!

[chowmama]

8. I appreciate you

This is the corporate version of 'thoughts and prayers'. I'd rather have time to do my job and the pay for it.)

A runner-up is 'going forward'. It's 'from now on', dammit!

Corporate-speak, blechhh!

[lastlib]

12. "At the end of the day...."

What happens after midnight??

"Half-mast" for a flag flown on land. Ships have masts. On land, it's "Half-STAFF".

Starting any sentence with "Hopefully". That is an atrocity.

[Marie Marie]

14. Put on your big (boy or girl) pants...

so condescending.

[True Dough]

24. Are you also opposed

to getting one's knickers in a knot?

[Marie Marie]

25. No, somehow the word knickers amuses me.

[spooky3]

27. That phrase makes me think of the candy bar. Nt

[MIButterfly]

15. The Democrat Party.

I've even heard Democrats use that expression. Once and for all, It's the DEMOCRATIC party!!!

[Mad_Dem_X]

22. Agreed! That drives me bonkers!

[FadedMullet]

32. Makes me crazy too. Fuck Bob Dole.

[synni]

16. "Fake news"

[Intractable]

17. six-seven

Does that one count?

[LogDog75]

18. Trust me

When I hear this I think "If you had already earned my trust then you wouldn't have to ask me to "trust you." This is the point my internal warning system starts raising red flags. Or, as the robot in the TV series Lost in Space would say: "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"

[rampartd]

29. 'putin told me ,,,and you can take him at his word" witkoff

"you can take him at his word?"

i would never take witkoff "at his word"

another one, from an x=boss "you just don't get it"

[10 Turtle Day]

19. This is not who we are

Usually said after some atrocity like a mass shooting. This is EXACTLY who we are. Maybe not us as individuals, but as a society the U.S. can be very sick.

[Buttoneer]

20. "Bottom line" is so arrogant. Who are you to say what the "bottom line" is??!

[Fla Dem]

21. It's up to you.

[JohnnyLib2]

26. Woke

[GusBob]

28. 2 very common ones from DU

Sorry to all

"FAFO"
and that "leopards eating face" one

Both way over used and just not clever anymore

[Skittles]

33. I absolutely disagree

they are still VERY relevant

[GusBob]

34. Thats kinda the point

If something is overused it loses its relevancy
and to see it 2-3 times in threads makes it overused
and actually one reads it here everyday, and posted with any discussion along with it, which in my opinion is just lazy

[Blues Heron]

30. "Leaning in"

[Blues Heron]

31. Spicy

And also “Salty”

[DBoon]

35. it is what it is

[WmChris]

36. Having said that

Now here's something entirely different.

[displacedvermoter]

37. Football player, or worse Ryder Cup golfer,

talking about "Going to war" with teammates. I recall the late Todd Christensen -- one of my favorite all time sportscasters -- going off one time about NFL players using this phrase!

[NEOH]

38. Guardrails and Off-Ramps

…Something the corporate media peeps always say. Is it a Civil Engineering course or what??

[displacedvermoter]

42. And fucking justices and judges

"Calling balls and strikes"

Liars.....

[PittBlue]

39. "My bad"

I hate that phrase.

[Zorro]

40. "Have a blessed day"

[Skittles]

41. "I threw up in my mouth a little"

it's just...........gross