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In reply to the discussion: Get it off your chest: current most detested / trite phrase or word.... [View all]Maru Kitteh
(31,779 posts)252. "I'm glad you asked that question" followed by nothing, in any way, resembling
an actual answer.
If you hear the words "I'm glad you asked that question" get ready for a whole frontloader full of pure, uncured fertilizer.
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Get it off your chest: current most detested / trite phrase or word.... [View all]
hlthe2b
Mar 2017
OP
I hate hearing the word "like" in ever sentence, sometimes two or 3 times.
appleannie1943
Mar 2017
#7
My grandson's wife graduated magna cum laude from college almost 10 years ago and that
appleannie1943
Mar 2017
#117
I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and guess that you're over 55 years old.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#261
Yep...me too but,replaced by "In this day and age" WTF does that even mean?? n/t
Bengus81
Mar 2017
#81
I thought snowflakes were fertilized eggs in cryo. Didn't they call them that for awhile?
CrispyQ
Apr 2017
#280
Nah! This one goes WAAAAY back! AFAIK, it's an Italian-American thang. (And so am I!)
WinkyDink
Mar 2017
#65
"Literally," when it is referring to something that isn't literal at all.
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2017
#32
Thanks, I had no idea on the origin. I always thought it was an business offer...
Blanks
Apr 2017
#299
Apologies. Didn't mean to steal your thunder. (Oopsie, 'steal your thunder'.) Can any of us'ns
sprinkleeninow
Mar 2017
#217
I also have some ridiculously wealthy relatives, so I feel your pain. Of course, they're RWers
Dark n Stormy Knight
Mar 2017
#75
"It is what it is." Drives me up the wall. Particularly if spoken as a real bit of wisdom.
argyl
Mar 2017
#247
Listing women by their first names (sometimes right alongside men listed by their last names).
Iggo
Mar 2017
#100
The following 2 phrases are relatively new and I have been irked by both since I first heard them.
LOL Lib
Mar 2017
#103
"Bombshell." Save it for something with proof that will stick, not the latest conspiracy theory or
Hoyt
Mar 2017
#140
Or using "I" as an object: "would you like to go on vacation with John and I?"
spooky3
Mar 2017
#156
It's derogatory. Different shades of derogatory. Someone we knew would say it repeatedly.
sprinkleeninow
Mar 2017
#199
"Religious Freedom" - a buzzword used by the right to exercise bigotry and act in unChristian ways
Doodley
Mar 2017
#177
"I'm glad you asked that question" followed by nothing, in any way, resembling
Maru Kitteh
Mar 2017
#252