Which expressions do you hate and why?

[Anonymous]

Get her done, git er done.

I find it chauvinistic, and it had grated on me when a narcissist coworker used it in front of me repeatedly as a jab. I know what it was meant to be, but it is actually an insanely sexist and derogatory term.

[Anonymous]

Gone off the reservation. Another highly racist expression.

Oh, and from my FIL, "You are just a girl. (Iam 53) "And boys will be boys. He uses it at 80 years old to elicit the need for women to take care of him.
Makes me sick.

[Anonymous]

Not the expression, but it bugs me when people correct me for putting preposition at the end of the sentence. No, I am not wrong; it is correct to phrase it like that; you are just stupid and don't know it is ok because some academics in the U.S. decided it is anathema!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:kiddo
doggo
preggo

no.

disagree with 'i love that for you'.

Don't move to Australia where they add "o" or "ie" to the end of everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who order things by saying “I’ll do . . . “. Can’t you just say “I would like a blueberry muffin” or something? When and why did “do” become a thing? It’s incorrect and weird.

I frankly think it's american egalitarianism. We don't like to pompously order servers around. I think we all try to soften it with "I'll have" , "I'll get", "I'll do" rather than "Please bring me the..." "I'm going to order the..." etc.

It's just people trying to be folksy and not demanding here. This one is the least bothersome trend, to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not the expression, but it bugs me when people correct me for putting preposition at the end of the sentence. No, I am not wrong; it is correct to phrase it like that; you are just stupid and don't know it is ok because some academics in the U.S. decided it is anathema!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is what it is. (No, you’re just apathetic or not thinking)

“Life isn’t fair” used in anyway other than to explain why some people are born into wealth and some aren’t, or why some people die young or get cancer and others don’t. It’s is NOT an excuse for adults being unfair. My face turns red hot when I hear this used this way.

Disagree on "It is what it is." I use it professionally when the point is we are stuck with the client's facts that we wish were more favorable for the conclusion the client wants us to reach. It's not apathy or refusal to think; it's stressing the importance of intellectual honesty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LITTLES

I had forgotten about this one but thank you for reminding me that I also hate it.

[Anonymous]

“Tell me that you xxxx without telling me you xxxx”

This is so irritating because the people think they are being so clever.

Also “hate on” like “Don’t hate on Canada.” Who the hell decided you need the word “on” in such cases?

[Anonymous]

“It just is,” like in “Coke is bette than Pepsi. It just is.” Ever hear of the fallacy of “Begging the Question”?

[Anonymous]

Hard pass
Full stop
Spot on

[Anonymous]

“Hard stop”.
It sounds dorky and is overused. And the person who says “I have a hard stop at 2” at the start of a meeting that absolutely ends at 2 is just a twat who needs everyone to think that what they’ve got going on after the meeting is more important than what everyone else has going on. And it is inevitably said by someone who’s not that important. Like, we’ve all got places to be, Derrick, but even if we didn’t we’d struggle on without you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate you… it grates on my ears

I prefer I appreciate it

This is very anti-Ted Lasso, and I won’t stand for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is what it is. (No, you’re just apathetic or not thinking)

“Life isn’t fair” used in anyway other than to explain why some people are born into wealth and some aren’t, or why some people die young or get cancer and others don’t. It’s is NOT an excuse for adults being unfair. My face turns red hot when I hear this used this way.

Disagree on "It is what it is." I use it professionally when the point is we are stuck with the client's facts that we wish were more favorable for the conclusion the client wants us to reach. It's not apathy or refusal to think; it's stressing the importance of intellectual honesty.

You're that guy. Everyone rolls their eyes in a professional setting when it is used. It means you couldn't come up with something better to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Tell me that you xxxx without telling me you xxxx”

This is so irritating because the people think they are being so clever.

Also “hate on” like “Don’t hate on Canada.” Who the hell decided you need the word “on” in such cases?

DP but along those lines I hate the "who has two thumbs and xxxxxx... this guy" or "I was today years old when I learned xxxx:"