Expressions you cannot stand

[Anonymous]

"he thinks outside the box"
"she has a bee in her bonnet"

[Anonymous]

i love him or her to pieces

swoop in

absolutely

that being said

tantrumming

[Anonymous]

When people write "sigh" in posts/emails.

AMA (advanced maternal age)

I threw up a little in my mouth

Anywho (instead of anyhow)


*I keep thinking of more and adding posts to this thread!

[Anonymous]

Irregardless

[Anonymous]

I'm going to loose weight.

Loose is an adjective.

Lose is a verb.

[Anonymous]

circle back
put a pin in it
button that issue up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:circle back
put a pin in it
button that issue up

or "loop back"

[Anonymous]

Just sayin'. . . .

[Anonymous]

Sorry if it's already been posted:

Put that in your back pocket

[Anonymous]

Wow, interesting to see all the ma'am problems here because we teach our sons to always say yes ma'am/no sir. I certainly don't want them offending anyone, but really, seems much more offensive not to do it to me.

I also really hate "Nice to see you." It's just as bad to say that if you've never met a person than to say "meet" when you already have.

Also hate "klassy"

My husband is from a rural town where that all say "you" where it should properly be "yourself" such as:

"Well, go get you a glass of water"

Gives me the willies.

Oh, and when people refer to their mother or father without "my" in front of it.

"I just talked to mom."

No, you just talked to YOUR mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Oh, and when people refer to their mother or father without "my" in front of it.

"I just talked to mom."

No, you just talked to YOUR mom.

OH!!!! Yes, I do not care for this one either! Hello, she is my MY mom. She is YOUR mom. She is not "universal mom."

[Anonymous]

When grown women call each other "honey" or "sweetie." Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox used to do this on "Friends."

[Anonymous]

This thread is cracking me up. I consider myself a grammarian and yet, I do half of these things, mainly because I like to joke around a lot with language and stay casual, but correct, if possible.

I hate business speak and the words that are all the rage at my office are:

Gain alignment, as in "we need to gain alignment on this topic at the next meeting" or "did you gain alignment with Tom?"
impacted (used as "affected")
stakeholders
senior leaders (i.e. intentionally vague, but everyone more senior than the person saying it.)

I also have to laugh when my boss, who, it's amazing she graduated college with some of the stuff she says, says things like, "where we're at", "Is that all the questions?", "her and I spoke," mispronounced the city "Tuscon" as "Tuscan" for an entire conference call, and used the word "unrepentantly" instead of "unexpectedly" in one of her emails that read "So-and-so is unrepentantly out of the office today". She is also a native English speaker, so that's not the problem.

for those who love this thread, consider reading George Carlin's book Braindroppings. It has tons of stuff like that in there.

Just sayin'

PS I absolutely can't stand LOL and it makes me think you are stuck with a dial-up modem somewhere in 1996.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't an expression, but I hate the word "ginormous". Hated when it was added to the dictionary.

Me too! I thought I was the only one.

Agree with hubby and hubs. Hate the term "rugrats" and also "snowflake" for children.

The absolute worst ones ever, among the crunchy community, are the use of the term "hossie" for hospital and "sposies" for disposable diapers. Is it that hard to type two or four more letters? They just sound so dumb it makes me cringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Nice to see you," instead of "nice to meet you," when I meet a complete stranger.

Ma'am (so insulting and backwards)

OH, the "Nice to see you" is soo DC! It's shorthand for, I may have met you and forgotten, but I don't really know so I'll just say this instead.