Which ones grind your gears? Today at the airport I heard business doods on their cell phones saying "just want to touch base" at least three different times. Sick to death of hearing that. You?
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Tired, annoying phrases
- Thread starter David Jayne
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- Mar 13, 2008
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When the contractors at my office are going to be out of town and unavailable for some period of time, they refer to it as being "out of pocket," as in "I'm going to be at the AUSA conference next week, so I'll be out of pocket until next Friday." I can't stand it. When I hear a guy say that, I just want to throw a pot of hot coffee in his face.
Yes! Never heard that particular phrase, but yes, pot of coffee to the face!
"At the end of the day".
Not sure why, but irritates me to no end. When I hear it in meeting or on TV. This happens:
Not sure why, but irritates me to no end. When I hear it in meeting or on TV. This happens:
"At the end of the day".
Not sure why, but irritates me to no end. When I hear it in meeting or on TV. This happens:
When I hear it, I jump in quickly and say "...you go to sleep". Equally annoying and hopefully enough to make them not use it again.
Other annoyances:
"To be honest" - so you're lying the rest of the time?
"With respect" = I'm going to disrespect you
"Just saying" = I'm not just saying, I have a very clear unspoken agenda
"To be fair" = I'm trying to cancel out all the unfair things I just said
Oh yes, an another:
"Chillax" - why take two words that mean the same thing and force them together into an unholy hybrid?
"Chillax" - why take two words that mean the same thing and force them together into an unholy hybrid?
In the south people will say anything rude or insulting but as long as they follow it up with "bless their heart" they think they are excused from being snobby. For example : oh did you hear Mary Joe got pregnant and doesn't know who the father is? She's really a poor pitiful thing ,, bless her heart.
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Yeah, I agree with that one. Sometime I laugh and tell people "Now that was not a quick question."
Another one of mine "To make a long story short." I usually say " Too late."
I've always enjoyed the 2 words combined. for example: ordinarily and normally: normalarily.
horrible and atrocious: horrtrocious
that one annoys me as well. I'll usually follow it up with "no, go ahead and lie to me"
that's an old sitcom joke that I have never heard in real life practice.
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