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It's a super common phrase in offices and I suppose it's because there are many forms in which you might "reach out" to someone. Could be email, could be text, could be a phone call, could be getting in touch with someone's assistant. So yeah, I get why it's said in that context but I agree if you just want to make a phone call to someone say you're going to call themLate entry: "Reaching out" - for God's sake, do you mean that you are going to call someone? Then just say that! Arrrgh!!
I guess I'm curious as to why this bothers so many people. Do you think they don't know it's a bass guitar and they're confusing you with the guy who plays lead?
See, my assumption would be the opposite. If someone calls it that I assume they're educated enough to understand it's an instrument in the guitar family and if I were to get upset that would show a vast ignorance on MY part, not theirs.
How funny that we are all so different in what we assume.
Late entry: "Reaching out" - for God's sake, do you mean that you are going to call someone? Then just say that! Arrrgh!!
I see that played both ways around here. Here are 2 common, yet contradictory TB statements:
1. Guitarist gets all the attention but the Bass player NEVER gets any.
AND/OR
2. Folks don't even know the difference between a guitar and a bass.
I know those things are often said in jest, like Rodney Dangerfield mode, but they can't both be true.
I got 2 new ones: "Sustainability" and "Diversity" - vastly overused in the media and totally meaningless. Dang I gotta stop watching the news...
"Stay at Home Mom" That should not be unusual or uncommon; that should be ordinary; "Working Mom" should be out of the norm.
You may not like the words, but they do have meaning in the right context and are used in many places other than the media.
"Thoughts and Prayers". If i hear that applied to one more mass shooting, I'm going to puke.
A tuba is a horn, but if you ask someone who plays one what they play, their response is NOT "a horn". The say they play "tuba".
If i hear that applied to one more mass shooting, I'm going to puke." 45 always added "Condolences".
I thought this was supposed to be about musically related phrases, not complaining about everything under the sun.
You didn't add it, so "cut through" the mix got my vote. But the one that I dislike the most is "sits in the mix".I just came to the phase that I can not more stand phrase like ''Cut through the mix'' etc.
So what's Your most annoying phrase?
Feel free to add Your own nightmares.
Yeah, that phrase "everything under the sun" really chaps my hide. I am absolutely and irrevocably not serious about this.
Keep ‘em barefoot and pregnant too, right?
Seen and not heard?
“Seen and not heard.”
Words cannot describe how much I hate this phrase. I was told this constantly growing up.
I never ever said it to my kids when they were being raised. It’s just an awful thing to say to a child.
