Phrases you are sick of

"Actually, the proper way to say it is . . ."

Bend over

loser wrote:

I don't want to go out with you anymore

HA!

In the educational world:

"It is what it is"

"We are charged with ------"

"Looking through the lens of ---"

1) all "office/work speak"

2) 110%

3) for all intensive purpose (although that just make me laugh when someone says it and thinks they are correct)

4) hope and change

15 minutes of fame...

"I'm taking my talents to"

I'm gonna lose weight just for you!

cantstandya wrote:

"Frankly" means "marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression". So if you have to qualify your statement with this, you are implying that normally, your statements are insincere. So yes, frankly, using "frankly" or "honestly" or any such thing is horrible.

I don't think that is really what is being implied, nor do I ever think to myself, "Hmm, he must be dishonest all the rest of the time." I think it implies you're saying something that you normally wouldn't even say [out loud]. You're being more blunt than usual.

Of course, it gets used way too often, and unnecessarily. But I don't think it generally has the connotation you ascribe to it.

But honestly, that's just my opinion.

Jumped the shark

Throw under the bus

cantstandya wrote:

"Frankly" means "marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression". So if you have to qualify your statement with this, you are implying that normally, your statements are insincere. So yes, frankly, using "frankly" or "honestly" or any such thing is horrible.

Notice how you ignored the first two words in the definition? When people say 'honestly,' they mean that they're just stating their opinion without regard for the consequences. It means the same thing as frankly except that no one says frankly anymore.

I could really go for not hearing 'irregardless' ever again.

There was a thread on this a while back. My favorite response was from "Boromir of Gondor" on page two.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=1585262&thread=1585030

1) Go figure! (Bob Costas says this a lot. I want to strangle him.)

2)...going forward

3) EXpresso (instead of ESpresso)

"Inbox me." Inbox is a noun, not a verb.

"JUST SAYIN'"!

(Just sayin')

I axed her if she liked me.

calling it quites

any phrase with toolbox or synergy in it.

"Wanjiru Arrested"