Expressions you cannot stand

[Anonymous]

Confession: I haven't read the entire thread yet, so maybe this has been mentioned.

"Weather". I hate it when people on news and weather reports say "they're having some weather in Tennessee right now." They've dropped the "bad" from "bad weather", and now they just use "weather" when they want to describe rain, tornadoes, snow, whatever. Anything that deviates from sunny and clear.

Everyone has weather, all the time. If your profession requires you to describe weather, please don't drop essential adjectives.

[Anonymous]

I hate it when someone says "cut and dry" - correct expression is "cut and DRIED"!

Hilarious thread!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in health care so I have a lot.

using 'vile' instead of 'bile'... "I choked back my vile"

prostRate cancer... right, the cancer you get from lying down.

chicken pops (wtf?)

"I fell out"... I still don't know what this means... you were overcome by emotion? You needed attention? You tripped and fell? You don't know why you fell? You were laughing? You lost consciousness?

and so many more...

Hahahaha my SIL says all of these!
She also says zink for sink, yes it's true. Took me awhile to figure out what the hell she was talking about

What the was the majority ethnicity where she grew up? My dad grew up in a rural community that had a lot of Polish speakers in it. (His grandparents were farmers and spoke Polish as their first language.) "Zink" was pretty common, and my dad used it..

[Anonymous]

"Fell out" means became unconscious or fainted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Confession: I haven't read the entire thread yet, so maybe this has been mentioned.

"Weather". I hate it when people on news and weather reports say "they're having some weather in Tennessee right now." They've dropped the "bad" from "bad weather", and now they just use "weather" when they want to describe rain, tornadoes, snow, whatever. Anything that deviates from sunny and clear.

Everyone has weather, all the time. If your profession requires you to describe weather, please don't drop essential adjectives.

Similarly, I really don't like when someone says "he doesn't have a temperature". Of course he has a temperature. He doesn't have a FEVER.

[Anonymous]

"myself" used as "Jane and myself are going to the meeting tomorrow" "myself and the other managers will be interviewing the new salesperson" just sounds so stupid to me.

"Jane is not here right now but I'll have her to call you back" what? either have her call me back, or ask her to call me back, don't 'have her to' call me back

[Anonymous]

Saying ironic when you mean coincidental. "Oh we're wearing the same shirt today, how ironic!" No. Shut up.

Improper use of lie and lay, although I know I should let go of this one. Language evolves and lie/lay errors don't get in the way of comprehension at all, but lay takes an object and lie does not! Ahh!

Anonymous wrote:I loathe when people say "reach out" - as in, "I'm going to reach out to so-and-so and ask them for a donation."

This x20000. I used to work in the House and I swear staffers say this at least 27 times a day. Call them, ask them, email them, get in touch, anything besides reach out! It sounds so silly.

[Anonymous]

I hate "reach out" too, it's so hokie. "Respectfully" as email sign offs are also super bogus. And all that corporate speak garbage like "leverage" and "synergy" are stupid as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day

+++++++1....

It's a tactic to try and persuade the other parties that they should just skip to the bottom line and not consider whethere there is any real basis or support for the speaker's position.

[Anonymous]

When people say "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".

I also know someone who "de-thaws" things from the freezer. Are you refreezing them then? No?

[Anonymous]

Metro as a verb

"I'm metroing downtown"

[Anonymous]

My travel agent calls it "Dubland"

Red flag?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people say "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".

I also know someone who "de-thaws" things from the freezer. Are you refreezing them then? No?

Verb 1. dethaw - become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, melt, dissolve
deliquesce - melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air; "this type of salt deliquesces easily"
de-ice, defrost, deice - make or become free of frost or ice; "Defrost the car window"
flux, liquify, liquefy - become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied"

[Anonymous]

Oh and the worst of them all is when people say things like" I am doing me"....Ew...
"you do you and am doing me....." Ew....really people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The use of ebonics/butchered improper English.

"She be crazy"

"What you talking bout"

"They is so stupid"

and on and on...

What's wrong with ebonics? It's a dialect. Are you offended by all dialects?

BWAHAHAHAHAH!