Expressions You Can't Stand

Mary!

That PISSES ME OFF

MUSSY

Kiss my grits!

It's a doggy dog world.

Without a doubt, "At the end of the day." Worst. Ever.

King

[X] is goals.

Grow the business

I don't have the bandwidth

"Look"

"Fancy", when used as a verb. The Brits just LOVE that one and it annoys the bejesus out of me.

It is what it is.

"Bejesus out of me". I hate this one.

YAAASS Kweeen

Unbunch your panties, Miss OP.

"bigger picture"

Hey, OP, you sound like you need to get laid. Bwahahahahah, ahahaha.

When people exclaim "What can I do ya for?!" instead of "What can I do for you?" It's the ultimate hokey-jokey phrase. 🤮

We have a lot to "unpack" nothing to do with clothes.

Douche

No problem

Breed me.

Do you feel me? (Not with a 10-foot pole)

Woke

Break wind

[R5] That's an eggcorn, the saying is "Dog eat dog" world.

R20- No problem is being replaced by NO WORRIES- which I DON'T like.

This has been going on since the 1990's- the characters on Roseanne would greet each other with this instead of Hi they say HEY.

What are you a FUCKIN HORSE. It's Hello or Hi NOT hey. It's MUCH more widespread now than ca. 1996.

When people just add unnecessary words, period. Instead of “What’s the weather?” Its “So, like, what’s the weather?” So? Like?

I mean, like, really?

ROMCOM- Just say Romantic Comedy you FUCKING IDIOT

I can’t.

Let that sink in.

Full stop.

You don't hear it so much anymore, but I cringe when I hear the expressions 'make love' or 'lovemaking' to describe having sex.

[quote] the characters on Roseanne would greet each other with this instead of Hi they say HEY.

I had a coworker who used to say “Hey? Hey? Hay is for horses. Save it in case you marry a jackass.”

R31, how do you feel about “bumping uglies”?

"No Problem" And don't tell us what it means in Spanish, this is an English phrase.

No problema.

Anything ending in "at."

e.g. "I want to see where we're at" or "Where you at?"

When did asking, "Where are you?" become difficult?

I can’t stand when news reports refer to a crime happening “in broad daylight.”

I understand what you're saying, r37, but that expression is traditionally used to highlight the brazenness of a criminal.

R38, I understand why the phrase has traditionally been used, but I still can’t stand it. It’s lazy writing.

When someone says- George Bush Jr. was BASICALLY a stupid person.

WHY basically? How about George Bush Jr. WAS a stupid person.

"FOX 4 News, working for you" !

I got ya, r39.

“The new normal” is no longer “new,” and hardly “normal.”

R43- Until recently they called the NEW beetle the NEW BEETLE even though the NEW beetle has been around since 1998.

Instead of saying : We talk about September 11, 2001 ALL the time they say: We talk about 9/11 24/7 - I FUCKIN HATE THAT.,

This is on a tv show but I still LOATHED it. On Law and Order SVU- Stabler and the others would say PERPS instead of perpetrators.

R25 I think R5 meant it as a joke. Lighten up.

Bottom line.

I know this isn't an expression but I CAN'T STAND when people WHISTLE in public. It drives me up a wall ( not to be ironic)

R46, that’s true to life.

That’s what we say in New York.

"Living rent free in your mind." It was cute and clever at first but it's been used way too much now that I don't care if I never hear it again.

"-gate" after every scandal or controversy. There is only one Watergate.

Using ‘within’ when ‘in’ would do - ‘within the organisation’ - and ‘going forward’ for ‘in future’. I hate ‘stakeholders’ too but it’s not easy to find a succinct alternative.

[quote] and ‘going forward’ for ‘in future’.

I don’t know why this irritates me so much, but it does. It’s such stupid “corporate-speak.”

Throw you under the bus

Mrs Maisel said this on Netflix and I turned it off. That expression was first used in 1980. In 2008 it was used in over 400 news articles.

OP, you and me baby aint nothin' but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery channel

Fun Fact- Pearl-Clutching as an expression was coined by Damon Wayans.

“Clutch the pearls” first appeared on In Living Color in the show's 1990 debut season in an April 15 “Men on Films” sketch.

R54, where did you find the info about the bus expression?

I find that (and that type of thing) fascinating.

"Die in a grease fire" was neither funny nor witty the first time, and age has not improved it.

"Kick her in the cuntbone," ditto.

R57, William Safire used to do that all the time in his language column, cite centuries-old stats about the evolution of usage. I don't know what his sources were but he was doing it before the internet became widely available -- he must have subscribed to some "Pundits R Us" service (or maybe he just made them up?).

Lotsa TV stations say they're "On Your Side."

R59, the Oxford English Dictionary is a great source for the history of words.

'Went missing"

Lately many websites, in getting you to reluctantly agree to them placing intrusive cookies on your browser in exchange for perusing their valuable site, are replacing 'I agree' or 'OK' with things like 'Sounds great!'

Yes, OP.

It's certainly obvious to everyone here that you've never been laid.

"Get fucked" used in UK & Australia. I don't understand how this is an insult. Getting fucked is a good thing.

This isn't an expression, just a stupid term that makes me very angry... especially when adults say

I cringe even typing it, but "Cool beans." I thought it went out of style when I was in high school (I'm 40), but I work with a 21 year-old who says it all the time.

Yummers

Furbaby

“is bae”

“is goals”

“I’m all about ______”

Air quotes.

Missed used prepositions or prepositions added where they don't belong, as in change up, switch up, wait on, etc. It makes people sound so minimally educated, white trash.

^^^ I meant misused, don't going hitting up on me!

"My bad"

"I don't know who needs to hear this, but..."

Bitch, what makes you think YOU'RE the one anyone needs to hear it from?

Also, "(fill in the blank) is broken".

Gay For Pay

There is no such thing as a gay for pay, maybe a Bicurious that can't reconcile his inner feelings for the same sex.

Limp dick.

OP you need to get laid like a brick. Hard and heavy.

Another expression I don't like - HARD ON. It sounds like your boner is pressed up against a rock.

I'll go with.... Said without an object of the preposition. You'll go with what? Me?

fixins. A turkey dinner with all the fixins. That makes my skin crawl. Oddly, it doesn't bother me if someone says, "I'm fixin to go to the store. Do you need anything?" In this case fixin means getting read to do something or planning

I'm fixin to go to the store- Does sound HILLBILLY.

R78- In a similar vein I don't like- You'll love this car it has ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES.

Circle back.

WOO HOO !

MAC AND CHEESE instead of Macaroni and Cheese.

In the final analysis ...

Yes, "veggies," "fixins," and "sides" are all kind of nauseating.

Years ago I was watching an episode of Top Chef and someone was describing a menu. They said and a SIDE OF SLAW. Instead of Cole Slaw.

Why do they have to change the name of EVERY dish to give to some HIPNESS?

The Frau Dessert Anthem:

"It's SO RICH!"

R82- WOO HOO sounds like a guy who just received a COCK up his ASS which felt GOOD so he screamed WOO HOO!

Instead of Discuss:

Unpack.

Dive in.

[quote]I'm gunna NUT!

Irregardless....

R90- That's a good one. I HATE that expression.

I'm living rent-free in your head.

I NEVER liked - I WENT TO BED WITH HIM, I SLEPT WITH HIM.

Just say you FUCKED or I had SEX with him.

The [healthcare/justice/whatever] system is broken.

As if during some vague time in the past The System was working just fine for everyone.

Who does that?

Circling back / looping back / rolling back

"People who were born female" (seen in an HIV drug commercial).

American democracy is broken!

As if women, slaves, and white men without property were allowed to vote and participate in government when the Constitution was signed.

[quote] Expressions You Can't Stand

I hate the expression, "You can't stand." Even though it's true.

[quote] American democracy is broken!

Like someone forgot to change the oil or something.

Instead of saying "We need to hear from more Blacks/gays/women/people with disabilities," saying, "We need to hear Black/gay/female/disabled voices."

I can't put my finger on why it bothers me, but it does.

Covid Bubble

New Normal

Protective Measures

Pivot

"Democracy dies in darkness"

Get the fuck over yourself, WaPo, especially with your narrative journalism.

Social Media

Social Distancing

Let me ask you a question...

Just ask the question, that's why the guest is on your show.

Stay pressed

This is some piping hot tea!

Hubby

Da fuck you think this is?

Clapped Back

Finna

So, anyway

"Do me a solid"

Sounds like someone taking a dump at your feet!

“Just sayin’” . Morons.

DROPPED, as in dropped a new album. what was wrong with RELEASED?

& THROWBACK, as in old photo - which for some reason has replaced FLASHBACK? Why?

In keeping with the spirit of R105, I CANNOT STAND:

“Tryna” or “tryin’ to”

“What time you tryna leave tonight?” “I’m not tryna start a fight...”

Since when did “wanting to”, “hoping to”, and “planning to” do something become “tryin’ to” do something? It started in certain subculture and then spread to larger demographic, and now it seems like every “hip” Millennial and younger person says it.

R69, don't forget "swap out", commonly used by cooks: "If you don't like walnuts, you can swap out pecans".

Which brings me to "substitute" being misused at least 99% of the time: "I'm allergic to cranberries, so I substitute them for blueberries"; "The cheese in the recipe was too expensive so I substituted it for a combination of cheeses I had on hand"; etc. The word is mutating into something that means the opposite of what the writer intends to say.

......is to die for!

R111, the last time we had a thread like this you brought that up. (At least I think it was you.)

Anyway, I wasn’t sure what you meant and you gave a terrific example of why it’s being used incorrectly. I have to admit I was one of those using it wrong. I no longer do.

See! You’re making a difference!

I don’t know why this grates on my nerves but when someone says “try and” instead of “try to.”

You don’t try and do something, you try to do something.

You got shit on my dick- I hate that expression really bad.

“On point”. I could throat punch a bitch for saying it.

[quote]don't forget "swap out"

Why not just say "swap"?

When "y'al" is used by non-southerners and non-black people, it sounds really stupid. This is 1000x time true when its used by SJW. That, and "folks".

"We need to talk about...". No, we don't need to talk about shit.

"Based off of." It's "based on."

don't even get me started with "affordable housing". Do people even know what that looks like.? Try Moscow circa 1965 cement block bunkers 20 stories high in rows of 20 or 30. Basic shelter and dense. Midwest cities are a joke if they think urban centers will be rebuilt with single family homes for every poor person. More entitlement mentality

My poosie yearns for your luscious lips!

R113, that wasn't me -- or at least I don't remember ever having the energy to post about "substitute" being egregiously misused. But I am thrilled to know that you were able to improve yourself with the help of a DL poster, whoever that was -- and now there are at least 3 of us who know how to use the word correctly, not going down without a fight . . . .

R117, that was my point, and R69's point before me -- the "out" is unnecessary and "swap" alone is sufficient. Yet "swapout" is becoming a word of its own and it irks me every time I hear it.

LOLOLOLOL

ROTFLMAO!

What are you guys laughing about?

Assholes who think they sound like a cash register by saying CH-CHING.

It's "best practice" to turn the heat up during this cold spell.

A waitress approaches three women at a table to take their order and says-Hi GUYS how are we doing this evening?

WOMEN are NOT GUYS!

In the 1970's and the 1980's when I was a youngster one said- How is your mother? How is your father?

Now it's HOWZ your MOM? HOWZ your DAD?

BOGO

From the 70s and rarely, if ever, used today, 'Garni' for 'Garnished' on restaurant menus.

"On Fleek" - quickly fell out of favor, thankfully. At least one can hope!

Hella

I hate the use of ‘super’ as an intensifier. It seems to have only started in the last 5-10 years. ‘I’m super busy’, ‘that’s super special’, ‘I’m super annoying using the word super when I could just say ‘very’ or ‘really’’

I work in a hotel and people ask for "conjoining" rooms all the time. It's astonishing that people would say that instead of "adjoining."

Oh My Sides

You sound like you are 100 years old Gramps.

[quote]A waitress approaches three women at a table to take their order and says-Hi GUYS how are we doing this evening? WOMEN are NOT GUYS!

It kind is now. The opposite of Guys is Gals, not women or ladies.

If a male waiter went up to a group of woman at a table and said Hi GALS he would have hell to pay ether for being perceived as misogynistic or just laughed at.

Whilst

No one uses this anymore under the age of 60.

"Got my back" — as in "Watch my back" or "I thought he had my back." With origins probably in WWII combat-speak, it's now a favored expression of the intellectually and emotionally immature.

"Mama bear."

"I said what I said!"

[quote] Assholes who think they sound like a cash register by saying CH-CHING.

You won’t sound like one by saying that.

It’s CHA-CHING!!

Sheesh.

[quote]CH-CHING.

Sum Ting Wong!!!

R142- You're wrong too. It's KA-ching.

"I'm LITERALLY shaking"

I've been marathoning on HGTV and for some reason referencing a certain bathroom style as "Jack and Jill" just bugs the crap out of me, also "powder room", and "en suite"!

Can you "speak on" this subject? Or just as terrible, "speak to" ... something other than a person. Usually during a serious conversation about some sensitive issue involving race or gender. I can speak on the fact that it sounds grammatically awkward.

Larry David said this on his show but people in REAL LIFE( I know- some people don't like this expression) say this- Pistachio NUTS.

DUH - What else would they be besides NUTS. Its' NOT necessary to say Pistachio NUTs.

Just say PISTACHIOS. NO ONE says Almond NUTS.

When discussing race, some version of "I don't care if you're black, white, brown, purple or green" is in fact, a racist statement.

sometimes i feel like a NUT , sometimes i don't

What have you got against purple and green people, R149?

R149- Anyone who uses that expression sounds UNSOPHISTICATED at best and kind of STUPID at worst.

R146- Do you like or dislike- HALF bathroom?

R153 i can handle that , LOL

I hate “based out of” when people mean “based in.”

“I’m a visual artist and musician based out of Austin, TX.” I don’t know what possesses people to say that, aside from hearing/reading other people saying it. It’s like they’re thinking of a TV or radio station that’s based in one city but broadcasts its signal out to the other towns surrounding it, maybe?

Someone will say - He grew up on Park Avenue and went to private schools his whole life, wait till he has to deal with the REAL WORLD.

Any WORLD you live in is the REAL WORLD. Just because it doesn't involve the MASSES doesn't make it NOT the real world.

[quote] What else would they be besides NUTS. Its' NOT necessary to say Pistachio NUTs.

But pistachio is also a flavor.

Pistachio ice cream is yummers. <—Aargh.

I'm eating Pistachios. No one is going to think I'm referring to ice cream.

I dont think it's grammatically correct but, even if it is, I loathe when people say, "It's ten minutes to my work."

Do you mean, "workplace"? "Job"? "Place of employment"?

"SEE WHAT I DID THERE ".

"Thoughts and prayers "

"Be blessed "

"Sunday funday "

"Yolo"

"Dope"

"Literally"

"Cali" when referring to California.

Australian habit of appending -ie (-y) to words: e.g., barbie, eskie, lippy

"Cash-money" Is there another kind?

R163- Brits do that too. They call the television THE TELLY.

"I'm gunna NUT!"

[quote]R149: When discussing race, some version of "I don't care if you're black, white, brown, purple or green" is in fact, a racist statement.

This idiot needs a remedial course in logic, mind-reading and an understanding that cliches sometimes can be taken literally or spoken honestly.

R149 shows herself to be a racist of a particularly foul kind.

It is what is .....

Eating ass

And such...

I love you but I'm not in love with you.

This one I LOATHE- FRENEMIES.

Every single Mexican on the West Coast says ‘ What Ima go ahead and do is’

Ex .. What ima go ahead and do is take that charge off the bill

So ghetto!

R172- To me any who says - going gangsta.

Guest commentators on cable news shows who open their answers with: "Listen" or "Look" or "So, um" or "Great question"

"for shits and giggles"

Work through the pain. Really, fuck you. You work through the fucking pain, I will continue taking oxycodone, you judgemental prick.

"You got this!" I know people mean well when they say this in support, but it's just as superficial and empty as "thoughts and prayers."

R177, lol! Right up there with " You go girl!" Cringe.

R178- Doesn't that sound like something OPRAH would say when she was talkin black - YOU GO GURL!

R179- I can hear her now, lol. Kathy Griffin did a really good Oprah impression. It was very funny. Barbra Streisand and the microphone that she painted white was a classic.

"Diss" for "disrespect." Sounds very dated.

[quote]you judgemental prick.

Pssst. I’m judging you now. But then, I’m very judgmental.

[quote]"Anyways."

[quote]".... and whatnot."

[Quote]Yaaas, queen!

When addressed by one gay man to another.

I can't stand this one ESPECIALLY when NITWIT Jr said it referring to the terrorists - THESE FOLKS

“Dropped” as one previous poster said, instead of “released”.

“Rocked” when used with an article of clothing, esp when the photo shows just a boring celebrity wearing an unimpressive ensemble.

My heart goes out to you-anyone who says that to me , I would say back to them - FUCK YOU!

Using the expression "DEAD to me" when referring to someone who is actually dead.

Pretension.

That's Fire!

You make my butt want a dip of snuff.

Instead of MY FAULT now it's MY BAD.

"This. So much this."

"I can't even."

"SMH" or "SMDH"

"Can you talk to that?" instead of just saying "Can you talk about that?"

The use of the term "hack" for things other than internet/computers, i.e. food or cooking techniques.

Expressions like "Where you at?" make the talker sound ghetto and low rent.

A'ight, R195?

GIFTING

"Babe"

"Baby bump"

Anything with "phobic" attached to it.

anything with AHOLIC attached to it. I can't STAND- I love sweets I'm a SUGARAHOLIC.

or I love chocolate I'm a CHOCOHOLIC.

White frauen and wannabe white frauen who try to justify their alcoholism with cutesy "It's wine o'clock" shirts and memes.

All of those "wine o'clock", "beer o'clock" type expressions sound stupid.

look at her she's a DISNEY PRINCESS. I not only dislike this I don't understand it.

I was just watching a video on youtube and this average looking guy says - I'd just like to give a SHOUT OUT to my wife.

I loath SHOUT OUT. In the video he was restoring a 1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo and he kept referring to the car as SHE. SHE needs some work. SHE used to be a beauty, SHE,SHE, SHE!

“It’s been a minute” meaning a long time

There are some British expressions I can't stand. FRUIT AND VEG. That's even WORSE than the American expression - Fruit and veggies.

They often refer to men and women's sexual organs as- DANGLY BITS ( that's plain WEIRD)

What a hoot!

Husbear. Any gay man who refers to his partner as his husbear should be shot.

[quote]They often refer to men and women's sexual organs as- DANGLY BITS ( that's plain WEIRD)

In one of the first movies I saw Matt Keeslar in, Run of the Country, he was nude at the very end, with just a sheep covering his "dangler," as he referred to it, r205. It took place in Ireland.

"Amazeballs" and "Awesomesauce"

Engaging with stakeholders.

"cancel culture"

I hate it when someone says they CAN’T STAND something.

Well, sit down then, you FAT BITCH.

Va-jay-jay

Nitwitmobile

Warm grain bowls

I started this thread thinking there were no expressions that I couldn't stand, and then I got to R35

It's "ningún problema" por la puta madre!

Some of you need to unclench, including myself.

[quote] It's "ningún problema" por la puta madre!

“No problema” is perfectly acceptable Spanish. In fact, I’ve never heard any of my relatives use ningún problema.

__________ "age like milk"

R218 Non-native speakers are usually ok with "no problema". Don't try it outside of the U.S.

R218 Also, you can say "No hay problema".

"Living my truth" - insinuates that "your" truth isn't the actual truth. Otherwise, you'd just say "THE truth".

"Living my best life" - who are you trying to convince when you say this? Yourself?

"Haters gonna hate" - you're not a girl and you probably haven't been a teenager in a lot of fucking years. Stop it.

R222, "my truth" sounds like "alternative facts" (espoused by that anorexic blonde in Trumpy's administration whose name I mercifully can't remember).

All the "my truth", "my lived experience" type expressions are bullshit peddled by SJWs and people like Harpo. I even had an argument about it with a journalist acquaintance who said something about how her responsibility was to report "the victim's truth" in stories about rape or sexual harassment allegations. She is not concerned about reporting whatever facts can be ascertained, only about taking sides and reporting her favored side's "truth". Unprofessional nonsense.

I’m against the death penalty, but in this case....

Partially due to the fact that the incident at hand was such that I was not on that location at the present time therefore where to for .. translation black folks in court

"Now, that's what I'm talkin' about"

also whenever someone agrees with you they say "Right?"

[quote] Warm grain bowls

LOL, so true. Awful. Who exactly came up with that name and WHY do so many fast casual healthy (whatever) restaurants think it’s a good name??

R228 some vocal fry McKenzie made the shit up

[quote] “is bae”

I loathe "bae," but it seems to be losing popularity, thank god. Feels like I haven't heard it often at all over the past year or two.

[quote] Warm grain bowls

Now that you mention it, there's something really gross about that name. Sounds as though you're ordering a big bowl of steaming shit.

"Bae" is loathsome but even worse than that is "boo". The mere mention of "boo" conjures up images of some shrieking ghetto hetero bitch yelling "Hey boo!" at her baby daddy du jour.

"bae" means poop in Danish.

R232

"Dollface." I just put some wastrel on ignore for typing it in a headline. Nothing deserves to be called that icky, smelly, dirty name. I mean, think about it.

The way people uptalk and say "so" at the beginning of every sentence, and "right?" at the end.

Oh and also sick to death of the word "kind." BLECH.