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Expressions You Hate!
mariez:
I voted for "With all due respect" b/c it's almost always followed by something insulting.
It's the same when someone says "I don't want to open up a can of worms, but...." Well, of course they do. They're about to do just that! :-\
Irregardless is also a pet peeve. And I would be perfectly happy to never again hear "think outside the box."
Marie
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Nevermore on November 16, 2008, 06:00:31 am ---'Under the bus" gets my vote for the hackneyed expression of the election season, and "meme" became one of those words like "paradigm" and "meld" that are deployed to display intellectual-with-it-ism and seem to emerge from the ether into common usage rapidly enough to go from obscurity to majorly annoying in a couple of days. In fact there's another one--"out of the ether."
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Isn't that one of those annoying performers who don't say a word?
;) ;D
Kerry:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on November 16, 2008, 02:43:35 am ---Oh I just thought of another one! Brad made me think of it!
Whoopsie Daisies!
Yeah. That gets on my nerves! Hugh Grant said it once (and I'm a huge Hugh Grant fan) and even I wanted to box his ears for saying it! :laugh:
(Thank you Brad for voting!)
Kerry, You didn't vote either, and you started this poll! Go vote!! ;)
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Haha - In Oz we say Whoopser Daisy, usually as an exclamation when, for example, someone trips and nearly falls over. ;D
Kerry:
--- Quote from: Nevermore on November 16, 2008, 06:00:31 am ---None of them really irk me, though I remember when I was living in the UK and "at the end of the day" was the phrase du jour--I remember a hilarious interview with Geri Halliwell where she used it like, ten times, including "At then end of the day, in the morning..."
'Under the bus" gets my vote for the hackneyed expression of the election season, and "meme" became one of those words like "paradigm" and "meld" that are deployed to display intellectual-with-it-ism and seem to emerge from the ether into common usage rapidly enough to go from obscurity to majorly annoying in a couple of days. In fact there's another one--"out of the ether."
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I'm familiar with "at the end of the day", "paradigm", "meld" and "out of the ether", but have never heard of "under the bus" and "meme". Can you give me examples of "under the bus" and "meme"? I'm curious. :)
injest:
--- Quote from: Kerry on November 17, 2008, 12:38:00 am ---I'm familiar with "at the end of the day", "paradigm", "meld" and "out of the ether", but have never heard of "under the bus" and "meme". Can you give me examples of "under the bus" and "meme"? I'm curious. :)
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Obama threw his grandmother under the bus..(he used her to deflect attention from himself)
think of a group of people traveling in a bus together...then one gets thrown off the bus and the bus runs over them...it is a betrayal, they thought they were one of you, that they were safe. It is not a good thing to do.
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