Expressions you cannot stand
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Anonymous
| Me first - "crunchy mom". Sounds like the kind of person you meet in a health food store. |
Anonymous
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Kiddos
"We're pregnant." The use of "do" in place of another verb. For example, "We do Thai on Friday nights." "I don't do Georgetown on the weekends." Ew. Not an expression but this: "incentivize." Not a word. |
Anonymous
| "Mompreneur." WTH? |
Anonymous
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"Grown-ass", as in "I'm a grown-ass woman". No one I know personally says that, but when I hear it on TV or out in public, it makes me cringe.
I agree with PP on "Kiddos" |
Anonymous
| "yup" |
Anonymous
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"I did the best I could"
It's so defeatist. I take it to mean "that's as hard as I was willing to try." |
Anonymous
| "alls you gotta do" instead of "all you have to do" |
Anonymous
| people who say the deceased at a funeral home has been "laid out". |
Anonymous
| guestimate |
Anonymous
| "working mom" - know any who don't? |
Anonymous
um, it is a word. what bothers me is people who instead use "incent" as if that is a real verb. |
Anonymous
| "hubby" and any of its variations (e.g., "hubs"). |
Anonymous
| "i could care less" - people, it's "I couldn't care less." or, better yet, just don't. |
Anonymous
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Mommy
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Anonymous
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"Nice to see you," instead of "nice to meet you," when I meet a complete stranger.
Ma'am (so insulting and backwards) |