What one cliche phrase can you do without?

[yellowcanine]

Mine is "think out of the box". Why not just say "Be creative."

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. i couldn't do without "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

[yellowcanine]

5. Corollory: Let's not "reinvent the wheel."

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[KurtNYC]

2. "No brainer"

never sure if that is supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing

[Hoping4Change]

3. Get a life.

[lutherj]

4. I can't stand the "my bad" phrase. I hope it's about run its course.

[Misunderestimator]

6. At the end of the day

[yellowcanine]

8. heh: and the "take home message is...."

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[Misunderestimator]

7. I agree on "think out of the box" ...usually uttered by close-minded,

ass-kissing, automatons who NEVER think "out of the box."

[Blue-Jay]

9. Classic MB Flame: "Your mom's basement"

Lame tactic, overused, irrelevant.

[LanternWaste]

10. "Let's agree to disagree"

"Let's agree to disagree"

It's the most inane phrase that has ever been thought up. It HATE it! x(

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. I like "think outside the box." It doesn't mean be creative

It means to look beyond the paradigm that we live in...not the same as creativity which can occur within the paradigm.

[Misunderestimator]

12. Yes, that's what it is... but people who use it ad nauseum have no idea

what you're talking about. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. Teach them.

To rip a page from the "spanking" thread...beat it into them :evilgrin:

[Misunderestimator]

15. LMAO

:thumbsup:

[GiovanniC]

14. "The Go-Forward Plan"

Not sure how cliche it is, or how heavily used. But where I work, I hear it all the time.

And I just want to scream, "Aren't ALL plans 'go-forward' plans? Are there any other kinds of plans? Have you idiots been working on 'go-backward' plans? Is that why we need a 'go-forward' plan to begin with?"

[Beware the Beast Man]

19. I hate "going forward".

I had a boss at my old job who used that phrase constantly. Whatever happened to "from now on"??

[NV Whino]

16. Have a good one.

ARRRRRRH!

[Misunderestimator]

18. Uh oh... I say that all the time...

Why do you hate it so? :)

[NV Whino]

20. A good what!?

Also qualifying is the more specific, "Have a nice day."

For heaven's sake, stop lapsing into cliché and say something original.

[Misunderestimator]

21. Well, sheesh... excuse me...

I guess I'll have to come up with something more original than "Hello" when I answer the phone as well. :eyes:

[FunBobbyMucha]

17. Schizzel my Manizzel

and every variation on Snoop speak. Enough, you're white, you live in Missouri. Get over it.

"Workin' hard or hardly workin'?" is the one that has me shopping for flame throwers, though.

[Commendatori]

22. "On the same page."

Besides the fact that the cliche bores me anyway, it is especially unpleasant because it is usually used to justify useless bullshit meetings: "I just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page." Yeah, boss, eat me.

[skygazer]

23. "Take it to the next level"

I was going to say "get on the same page" but someone beat me to it. I used to have a manager who used to urge us, within the space of two minutes to "think outside the box", "get on the same page" and "take it to the next level". Drove me nuts.

[terrya]

24. "We're turnin' the corner!"

No, we're not.

[mrboba1]

25. not phrases, but these are uttered waaaay too often in sports:

upside.
"He's got a lot of upside." (They all do. That's why they get drafted. Could you imagine someone thinking, "well, we took him, even though he doesn't seem to bring much to us..."

adversity.
How much adversity can one person have? gimme a damn break.


:eyes:

[Tredge]

26. Get my "X" on

1) You can get just about anything 'on.' I'm a get my drink on. I'm a get my dance on. I'm a get my herb on. I'm a get my sleep on. It's played out.

2) "Played out"

3) "Leading edge"

[djeseru]

27. "Hot enough for ya?"

I live in Texas so this one is heard often.

[Kat45]

28. That someone "has too much on his plate"

That drives me nuts. I know a lot of us have too much to do, but I'm so sick of constantly hearing that phrase. And it's usually used by self-important people, subtly bragging about how in-demand they are, as they let you know they don't have any time for you and blow you off.