Phrases you can't stand...

[bloodiedathame]

For me, it's 'so-called'... I don't know why, it just really ******* bugs me. Every article I seem to read on the BBC website seems to have it written in there somewhere...

In fact, the bloody phrase comes up 48,900 times.

Please don't say it's just me that feels this way about certain phrases.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Doesn't really bother me unless it's catastrophically wrong.

 

[Lysander]

"Mass exodus".

An exodus is a large outpouring of people. That's why the word exists. It doesn't need anything else.

 

[DaleTheWhale]

"Global Pandemic"

 

[Tony Edwards]

"God works in mysterious ways" **** off.

 

[Freefaller]

"at the end of the day"

 

[R-evans]

Not really the phrase but the way a lot of people say it... "I could care less"

Makes me want to punch them.

 

[dlockers]

Haven't we already had this thread?

 

[Ayahuasca]

Haven't we already had this thread?

The outrage has died off so it's time to be outraged again.

 

[A2Z]

'It is what it is'

No **** Sherlock. And it's what you make it, not what it is.

 

[dlockers]

The outrage has died off so it's time to be outraged again.

Gotcha.

I hate when people prefix everything with "obviously".

 

[dlockers]

'It is what it is'

No **** Sherlock. And it's what you make it, not what it is.

I feel "it is always in the last place you look" is in that category too.

Well durr, you aren't going to keep looking once you've found it, are you?

 

[R-evans]

Gotcha.

I hate when people prefix everything with "obviously".

Or "literally", that's the worst.

 

[dlockers]

Or "literally", that's the worst.

Literally the worst, agreed.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Literally the worst, agreed.

Obviously, that's not the case.

 

[Andythe Random]

"at the end of the day"

"you're another day older."

 

[haaammit]

When people say "Due to the fact that...." when they quite clearly mean "Because..."

 

[Tek81]

"Are we on the same page?" and "I could care less" are the only two that make my teeth itch.

 

[BDEE]

"Going forward". Especially when I find myself accidentally saying it.

 

[robj20]

When a certain company says "PC Computer". For some reason that always bugs me more than it should.