What phrases in the media are you sick and tired of?

[Retired George]

Two come to my mind at the moment...

Sports: "You gotta be kidding me!"

Movies: "This ends tonight."

Anything from TV, cinema, news, the web is fair game.

[Jamaal510]

1. ...

-"Legit/legitly"
-"Literally"
-"Year of the outsider"
-"Status quo"
-"Epic"
-"Rachet"
-"That (insert subject), though..."
"It's Peyton on Sunday morning..."

[Retired George]

2. "The Optics"

"The Metrics," "At the End of the Day." (Thank you for activating my mind to the political catchphrases I hate!)

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I love you, Retired George. Those are EXACTLY the same three I despise!

[Orrex]

24. "Optics" is the worst

I find any corporate buzz-speak to be acutely distasteful, but "optics" is currently at the top of the list.

[caraher]

28. "Optics," hands down

Especially as I work in real "optics"

The word does not mean, in any other context other than this new one, "how things look."

Is the next thing talking about bad "acoustics" when someone says something that "sounds bad?"

[hibbing]

38. Tie for me, Optics and "Pivot"

A month ago if you turned on CNN, MSNBC, or any of the others and took a shot anytime someone said pivot, you would be trashed in a half hour.


Peace

[geardaddy]

41. Count me in on "Optics" and "Metrics"

Those absolutely drive me insane when I hear them.

[AgadorSparticus]

77. Ditto on optics. UGh....

[Number9Dream]

3. "Game changer..."

[True Dough]

5. "Drill down" and "unpack"

"So let's drill down into this issue..."

"So let's unpack this issue..."

They're all the rage.

[kairos12]

29. Unpack. I hate that one.

[spiderpig]

6. "Double down on..."

" is/isn't in their wheelhouse"

(In cooking shows) "What I made for you today is..."

[hamsterjill]

15. Oh, I'm with you on the "double down".

I'm sick of hearing that phrase!

[geardaddy]

39. Speaking of cooking shows...

I hate it when they say "Let's get ready to plate the dish." Ugh "plate" as a verb!

[malthaussen]

86. Welk, "plate" is a verb...

... it just doesn't mean putting something on a plate.

-- Mal

[geardaddy]

87. That's true. I forgot about plating metal with another metal.

I don't like when they use it in the culinary sense.

[whistler162]

7. The Breaking News banner

6 hours after the news broke!

[Retired George]

17. That is, when it's news at ALL

When I'm flipping through the channels and see Wolf Blitzer with the BREAKING NEWS caption below him, I just keep on flipping.

[Boomerproud]

80. Yes!

Every time Trump belches, farts or anything else (gains 1 point in the polls) it's Breaking News!!!

[baldguy]

8. "Clinton scandal"

Always a non-scandal. And usually just recycled, regurgitated lukewarm bull shit.

"This just in: A new Clinton Scandal reveals that the former Secretary of State used paper napkins at a recent visit to well known fast-food restaurant Carl's Jr. Senate Republicans want to know: Just who the hell does she think she is? Hearings have been scheduled for the third week in October."

[NNadir]

18. +1,000,000. Let's drill down into this paper napkin thing and find out why Ms. Clinton...

...was at Carl's Junior when the Syrian war was exploding because Obama pulled our troops out of Iraq.

[sharp_stick]

9. Obliterated, Destroyed, Ended

and any other clickbait bullshit. ie) So and so obliterates other so and so in some stupid argument.

[Iggo]

10. Sick and tired. (n/t)

[SCantiGOP]

49. Although AA uses the phrase effectively

As in: get sober when you are sick and tired of being sick and tired.

[Blue Dalek]

11. Football games cutting to commerical

and the announcer says "We're gonna step aside."

Also, commercials using the word "awesome" and "Call Now!'

[Initech]

12. Turn those frowns upside down!

Whenever I hear that phrase I immediately go...

[MicaelS]

13. Breaking news. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

14. "We are efforting a response..."

I even heard Rachel Maddow say it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

31. "Efforting"? That's ghastly n/t

[geardaddy]

40. Yeessh!

That is bad.

[gratuitous]

16. "The death toll is expected to rise"

Well, it sure as hell ain't going to go down!

[Iggo]

27. When I read that, my mind used the voice of George Carlin.

[Illinois Irishman]

71. But it Has Gone Down

Initial estimates are often too high, with 9/11 and the World Series earthquake in 89 being just 2 examples.

[Wolf Frankula]

19. Three come to my mind

"The Voice of Your Generation." Said about somebody you don't care about, or denies it.

"You (we) have to be better than that." Why don't they have to be better than that?

"The next big thing." Living in a cardboard box is the next big thing.

Wolf

[aidbo]

20. "That being said"

Often, it prefaces them saying something awful or stupid.

[spiderpig]

21. "A bridge too far"

(Andrea Mitchell just used it and I cringed)

[kwassa]

22. Pivot. He is going to pivot to the general election ....

the concept is vile, too.

[FigTree]

23. 2 ex-aequo

"Let's agree to disagree"
"conversation"

[FigTree]

25. And another thing:

Lapel pins.

[kairos12]

30. A perfect storm.

[BainsBane]

32. "Grab her by the p....y"

And the name Trump.

[spiderpig]

33. "Oppo"

[Upthevibe]

34. Double Down, at the end of the day, and something that I notice from folks who are around the age of

Chris Hayes. They say this a lot: "kind of" and "sort of." It happens when they're in the middle of saying something. Example:

"So, I was listening to what he had to say and I 'sort of thought' well maybe he meant it in a 'kind of' metaphorical way." (I'm just making up this sentence that doesn't mean anything at all I just wanted to illustrate what I mean). It really bugs me.

[WiffenPoof]

36. "...sucked the air out of the room."

[Retired George]

43. "Walking it back"

You said something, and now you're retracting it. Statements aren't dogs; you can't walk them!

[spiderpig]

37. "Believe me" "So true" "---- is a disaster"

(make sure you repeat everything at least twice)

[geardaddy]

42. "individual" when referring to a person

e.g., "The individual was seen leaving his house"

or when reporters say "male" or "female". My initial response is, "Male (female) what? Male (female) warthog?"

[a kennedy]

44. "moving forward" although it hasn't been used as much as it was....... eom

[pinboy3niner]

45. Throw shade. nt

[Retired George]

46. Trope

I still don't even know what that means!

[LWolf]

47. I'm not sure,

since I don't really watch or listen to the media much. I'm sure if I read this thread I can find some I've heard repeated ad nauseum by watchers, though.

[CTyankee]

48. "Hard hitting" as in reports that aren't.

"We're not afraid go there" as in Joe and Mika's Morning Joe that NEVER goes there.

"There's still time to pull this thing out." As in the ridiculous hope that the GOP can win the election.

[femmocrat]

51. "Going forward" ...

pronounced as "foh-wud"! I guess it's a regional accent, but it annoys me.

Also, "brand" when referring to a person. And I hate "wheelhouse"! LOL

[ailsagirl]

82. I don't like that phrase, period

People used to use, "From here on out," or "From now on"

Which I prefer

[ailsagirl]

83. Also there's RAMPING IT UP

UGH!!

[Callmecrazy]

52. "and we'll be right back after these messages"... nt

[ET Awful]

53. "The Trump campaign"

[ancianita]

54. "Some people are saying..." is lazy, hearsay propagandizing. Not journalism. Usually said on TV.

[lindysalsagal]

55. "Sending a message to....."

Pisses me off every time. So self-righteous.

[lindysalsagal]

56. Starting an answer with "So, ..."

It implies that the person asking the question isn't even there and was not heard: It implies you're still talking and just took a breath.

[trof]

60. Same with "Now..."

"Tiffany Jewel has breaking news on the robbery...Tiffany?"
"Now the thief said...."

[CanSocDem]

68. oh hell ya!! Great interpretation. n/t

[jmowreader]

57. "Presidential candidate Donald Trump"

I can't wait till that's "convicted felon Donald Trump."

[annabanana]

58. I hate when one "throws" to another with a stupid question, and the receiver says

"Absolutely"

[Retired George]

59. How in the Name of Biscotti didn't I think of THIS one???

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"On the Ground." As opposed to hovering five feet in the air? WTF?

[CTyankee]

62. It's like "groundgame" which is overdone...

[Retired George]

63. I also mean it in the foreign context, as in

"Our reporter Richard Engel is on the ground near Mosul."

[LanternWaste]

64. Agree to Disagree.

Agree to Disagree. Deconstructed in it's popular context, it makes no actual sense. It simply let's an idiot feel civil for being an idiot.

Magic Thinking. "Not simply do I disagree with your position, I also need to advertise myself as half petulant mensch and half jack-ass to do so to my own self-satisfaction."

[TeamPooka]

65. We'll have to leave it there...

[3catwoman3]

66. "Playing to his base."

I hope this disappears with Trump's defeat. He certainly does pander to people's baser instincts.

[femmocrat]

67. "Full-throated"

Ugh.

[Retired George]

70. Manichean

This occurs mostly in written media. I've tried looking it up, but the definitions given are utterly useless, just like "trope."

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

69. "Tells it like it is"

This phrase seems to mean "oversimplifies and is generally offensive".

It is supposed to mean "to describe a situation honestly without avoiding any unpleasant details" but given all the liars this phrase has been applied to (Trump, LePage) I would say being honest has nothing to do with it. I think a lot of people have confused being an asshole with being honest, but I don't understand why they can't tell the difference. I think maybe they think why would someone say something so shocking if it weren't true. I guess it doesn't occur to them that it is possible to be offensive and lie at the same time.

[ailsagirl]

84. That's a real oldie

It's actually odd that anybody's still using the phrase. By rights it should have gone the way of dated '60s slang like "right on" and "can you dig it?" Like those expressions, "tell it like it is" had its roots in black speech in the 1940s and 1950s. Back then it just meant to come clean about something. In 1954, the R&B singer Roy Milton had a modest hit that went "Tell it like it is, Don't say you love me when I know you don't."

The phrase caught on in the early '60s, when black activists made "tell it like it is" a byword for confronting the realities of race in America. It was picked up by the hippies and the student left, and it soon became a hallmark of youth culture. Howard Cosell promptly co-opted it as a slogan, and the frenetic disc jockey Murray Kaufman wrote a guide to the younger generation called Murray The K Tells It Like it Is, Baby.

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/15/423194262/tracing-the-origin-of-the-campaign-promise-to-tell-it-like-it-is

[UrbScotty]

72. "Economic anxiety"

[Out of Time Man]

73. "Networking".

"Social Justice Warriors". The new "bleeding heart liberal".

And "...and you won't believe what happened next".

I die a little inside every time I see that last one.

But if I had to choose one that I hate the most, it's probably anything that uses the term "Millennials".

It's so often used when denigrating an entire demographic that it's hard to read it without mentally adding a hint of scorn.

[demon in basement]

98. "Bad Guys"

Used in foreign policy discussions way too much, reducing complex issues to a cops & robbers level.

[VOX]

74. Kicking off a sentence with "Look" and a pause: "Look [pause], we need better *whatever* etc."

I know of no one in real life that uses "look" and a pause to open a thought. I've noticed numerous talking heads doing this for years.

I suppose it beats "Here's the thing [pause]."

[femmocrat]

78. "in an abundance of caution"

and Anthony Weiner's "junk"

[spiderpig]

79. "baked in"

[ailsagirl]

81. I've just started hearing that one recently

Is it new?

[PunkinPi]

92. yep, that's the one...

and it's cousin, "baked in the cake"

[ailsagirl]

85. I actually don't dislike it because it's a good phrase, IMO

"Cautiously optimistic"

It is used a lot, though

[cleveramerican]

88. "vetted"

I am so sick of the word

[wic_canuck william]

89. "Give us a sense..."

Ted Koppel coined the phrase, but too many others have adopted it.

[BainsBane]

90. "enthusiasm gap"

Sick to fing death of it.

[anneboleyn]

91. Hannity's favorite words: "nefarious" and "foment" --always used in attacks on Clinton

I think Hannity thinks that his audience thinks he's smaaaaaart when he uses BIG WORDS like "nefarious."

[doc03]

93. Double down nt

[redwitch]

95. "emails" nt

[IcyPeas]

96. "the latest polls say......."

[kebob]

97. "President-elect Trump"

I was sick and tired the first fucking time I heard it!

[hibbing]

98. Suburbs of Philadelphia

Good lord, okay okay okay, we get it, the women in the suburbs of Philadelphia will determine our destiny from here to eternity, enough already.


Peace

[hibbing]

99. Blue Wall n/t

[Orsino]

99. "The American People"

Also "hard-working Americans."

[FrankfurtCat]

100. In Sinister Tone:

"Could this happen to YOU?"

Usually before a story about a horrible murder or other calamity, or sometimes just with something pretty commonplace, like becoming homeless, or going hungry.