The most irritating phrase in the... (quote, words)

[RjRobb2]

Originally Posted by Fred314X

Buzzwords and catch-phrases...I hate 'em. The one I detest lately is from those new Bud Light ads: drinkability. When will it end? (No...don't put an answer in writing. I don't want to know!)

The ironic part about that is that Bud Light has about the least amount of drinkability as any beer out there. Bud Light is the beer for people that dont like beer.

[HonuMan]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

My ex used to say your all's (-----), possessive form of y'all.

In WV we said youse guys and youns. Lot of Pennsylvania Dutch and Italian influence there.

Then there's "all y'all," which implies a bigger group than just "y'all." I lived in Atlanta for 25 years, though, and I don't recall ever having heard "y'all" used as singular. When I heard actors playing Southerners in movies or TV shows use it that way, I assumed they didn't know anything about true Southern dialect.

[HonuMan]

Originally Posted by sayulita

"Think outside the box"....can someone please do same and come up with a new expression for innovative thinking?

Once enough people start thinking outside the box, the big opportunities are going to be in the box, unnoticed by the sheep-like, innovative masses.

[HonuMan]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

they did not pass on, leave us, move forward, pass away, fade out, . . . They died. Why can't people just say "dead?"

And in the news, it's always a "tragic death." It's never just a death.

[HonuMan]

Originally Posted by kaykay

Ok, I'm probably weird here, but is anyone else bothered by the phrase " to go missing" or "She went missing." I just never heard that till a few years ago. It seems more correct to me to say something like "She was missing since Friday..." or "She is missing..." not "went." Now I hear it everywhere including the local news. Is this proper grammar?

That bothers me, too. Before people "went missing," they "disappeared." It seems like word inflation to me.

[HonuMan]

"We can do this -- it ain't rocket science!" What do rocket scientists say when they want to get across the point that something is doable?

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by HonuMan

"We can do this -- it ain't rocket science!" What do rocket scientists say when they want to get across the point that something is doable?

They say, "It ain't brain surgery!"

[Bluesmama]

"I have a question for you." It's the 'for you' that stabs at me, and I've no idea why. But I'm a receptionist, and this is the initial introduction that bugs me the most.

[kingd]

Just heard another: "if you have skin in the game." Please make all sports metaphors stop.

[Green Irish Eyes]

Originally Posted by kingd

"if you have skin in the game."

What the heck does THAT mean ???