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What's a saying or phrase that you hate?

I can't stand "Do me a solid". Sounds like something you would say before taking a dump 🤣.

"I gotta do me a solid and take a shit" 🤣
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
Woke

I can’t stand it
@SubstantialKick But It [b]had[/b] a meaning for a long time. People who don’t know that history have "rebranded" it, basically.
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
@bijouxbroussard Yeah I just did a bit of research on it, and seems like people have altered the definition and flipped it upside down.
@SubstantialKick Exactly.
kodiac · 22-25, M
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger ,what a load of 💩
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
@kodiac Absolutely agree. What doesn’t kill you sometimes gives you PTSD and anxiety for the rest of your life! (Not me personally but it sure as hell didn’t make me stronger)
kodiac · 22-25, M
"I haven't seen you/him/her in a minute." Every time I overhear my kids use that one I roll my eyes.
@SubstantialKick Exactly!
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
@latinbutterfly I have never heard that before and it would confuse me if someone did say it. In a minute? Have you seen them in 5 minutes? an hour? the last 24h?
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
@latinbutterfly i hate that too. My kids use it too
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Pop a cherry. 🤮🤮

Pull your head out of our ass. - I find that more vulgar than it's necessary.
SW-User
Haha. Thanks for jiggle giggles 👍@CrazyMusicLover
SW-User
@CrazyMusicLover Looks appetizing 🤢
@CrazyMusicLover [b]Yes ![/b] Vulgar is the exact word for that phrase. 😠
Get your ducks in a row

Who even has ducks? 🤔
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
I hope you’re just being funny but if you’re actually serious, no one “has ducks” it’s an idiom pertaining to mother ducks leading their ducklings. @BeefySenpie Or alternatively, ducks being in a row before the classic game of shooting them.
@DoubleRings Just being silly
deadgerbil · 22-25, F
Do me a liquid and have some diarrhea
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
@deadgerbil ...who the actual fuck says that?
Jenny1234 · 51-55, F
@deadgerbil ive never heard that one
SW-User
One I like is,😂 Shit or get off the pot
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
@SW-User I love this one!
WhateverWorks · 36-40
when people use the word literally when what they mean is figuratively
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@WhateverWorks Makes me want to literally slap a mf.
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
Never heard that one.

Other phrases that are annoyingly overused:
“asking for a friend”
“……annnnnnnd go!” (asking for recommendations)
“bonus points for … “ (specific recommendations that meet a certain criteria)
and the misuse of “literally” - I hear talk show hosts where they **literally** use it 20x in a broadcast when they actually mean “actually” bc there’s not even a figurative phrase that follows it. ex. “She literally won the contest she entered.”
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
BREAKING NEWS...

Because mostly it is stuff like :

BREAKING NEWS: shit everyone already knew is still happening and this little tiny tidbit of info just came to our attention today, somehow...

Or...

The sky is BLUE!
"The enemy of our enemy is our friend" It's rather dumb.
@PiecingBabyFaceTogether There are people who still believe it, which is unfortunate.
nedkelly · 61-69, M
I am Joe Biden, commander of the oops 🙊 I cannot remember
SW-User
Adulting, Cool beans
Nebula · 41-45, F
@SW-User oh yeah, people say that whenever they go grocery shopping or pay their bills 🙄
Nebula · 41-45, F
"You snooze you lose."
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SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
@Angelogaggi Understandable. If you are not really close with someone, it can be awkward as hell.
"Everything happens for a reason" makes want to choke someone. 😳
SW-User
@bijouxbroussard Agreed! I'd like to Will Smith slap them! 😆
I’ve gotten to the point where I [b]hate[/b] hearing the term "woke" being used by people who have no idea what it really means or where it originated. I just wish they’d delete it from their vocabulary.
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
@bijouxbroussard To quote my own self:

[quote]I hate it when people randomly take a word and create a brand new meaning for it.[/quote]
“No one is perfect.” This is used to absolve people of everything from genuinely benign mistakes to intentionally egregious criminal acts.
Iwillwait · M
@AnonymouslyYours 🤨Well..no one is perfect. 🙄
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
@AnonymouslyYours I used that one when I was younger as an excuse when I did something stupid...lol.
luckranger71 · 51-55, M
People in my area refer to the job of being a truck driver as "driving truck". What does Joe do for a living? "he drives truck"
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
@luckranger71 this is like when news casters say a victim was sent to hospital or died in hospital. he was brought to THE hospital. I don’t get it either.
SW-User
"Be yourself". Who the feck else am I gonna be? No matter what I do, it's still me, duh.
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
or “you do you.” @SW-User
"When things improve" The way I see it, we're going downhill real fast. I'm not politically motivated, as far as I I'm concerned they fall into a few categories, the ones who are just in it for the $, those who use congressman status, & the true guys who do what they say they're saying they're going to do (. 00001%)
SilkandLace2 · 46-50, M
Agreed, that just sounds stupid
Piper · 61-69, F
"It is what it is", for one.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
It is what it is. When someone wants to change the subject because they don’t want to admit they aren’t knowledgable enough to contribute anything to a conversation they started.
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
@cherokeepatti It's a kind of a fancy version of "whatever".
Pitsilizater · 31-35, M
Man up. I hate it
SW-User
"It is what it is"

Really? It is? Imagine my shock. I was convinced that it is what it isn't.
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
@SW-User Maybe people misuse this phrase but generally it’s not meant to tell you “it is what it is” It’s meant to say “It is what it already is and there’s nothing else that can be done” in the context of someone who wishes it could change or be what it isn’t. Realizing or indicating something cannot be changed.
Iwillwait · M
@DoubleRings Exactly.
MethDozer · M
@SW-User You sound exactly like my oldman.
SW-User
Specific to my career:

Growth Mindset
Design Thinking
Scaffolding
Mastery grading
Performance based grading
Formative/summative testing
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
@SW-User diagnostic assessment? Standardized assessment? Benchmark levels? Do those also ring bells? lol
Elessar · 26-30, M
Does "once in a lifetime economic crisis", at like the 3rd in my 27 years of existence, count?

"In these unprecedented times"
"Trying times"
"Uncertain times"
et al.
SW-User
What goes around is all around ! . Or something like that 😒
SW-User
@SW-User I think you mean "What goes around comes around"
Byron8by7 · M
"I'm like" - when they should be saying, "I thought" or, "I said"
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
@Byron8by7 Guilty!
Byron8by7 · M
I don't really hate it it, but:

[b]" At the end of the day ... "[/b]
Lumberjack70 · 51-55, M
Reach out. Ugh
DoubleRings · 51-55, F
@Lumberjack70 that phrase and another one my boss used to use was “touch base”. Just wanted to touch base with you about…. etc Annoyijg
Lumberjack70 · 51-55, M
@DoubleRings another one of my favourites too 🙄
Keepitsimple · 51-55, F
“I forgot”
"It's (current year)" since 2015
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
For the hell of it, since people are doing this, here's one that I love.

Cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
"Easy peasy".

I never heard it when I was a kid, and now suddenly everybody says it.
SilkandLace2 · 46-50, M
@LordShadowfire yeah, I've Always thought that sounds really kindergartenish
FeetAreFantastic · 41-45, M
"no offense but..."
I'm just going to offend you now anyways
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
"Quick like a bunny".

I don't know why. I love bunnies, but this phrase annoys me.
MethDozer · M
"If it saves just one life it is worth it."

 
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