New phrases that grate on my nerves...

[4greatboys]

Yeppers. Ugh hate it. I also cannot stand the phrase "hunker down". It is all I heard when we were about to be hit by Ike back in '08.

 

[tvguy]

"Gone Missing".
Exactly how do you go missing? You disappear, or are missing.

"It is, what it is".
Usually used by a manager at work when confronted with facts that prove without question that a situation needs to change to fix a problem, comply with the law, eliminated a safety hazard, but the manager has no intention of ever ever ever taking action to do so.

 

[Spoodleink]

My bad
Grow (as in grow a business). You can't grow a business. It isn't living.

Grow just doesn't refer to living things. It's anything that becomes larger or increases in size.

 

[dejr_8]

Grow just doesn't refer to living things. It's anything that becomes larger or increases in size.

OK then how about grow the business organically.

 

[Robinrs]

"It is, what it is".

I think my boss and my cousin says that 20 times a paragraph!! shut UP!!!!!

 

[Robinrs]

Not a phrase but an inflection that drives me INSANE.

-wah at the end of a one syllable word -- like NO-wah... what the heck IS that???

The young girls at my office do it ALL THE TIME. So do those horrendous Kardashians... when did NO become a 2 syllable word?????

 

[Evita_W]

I am with an earlier poster with the word Man Cave....Thankfully my DH doesn't use that word...

I also do not like the term on the DisBoards... Pooh Sized..as someone of that stature it just doesn't sit well...

The last one I just can stand is when a noun starts becoming a VERB...now I know that happens with many words but it bugs me most when I hear...

"Oh yea....I remember Bob, you know he FACEBOOKED me..."

and if I hear O...M....G..one more time...

 

[Spoodleink]

OK then how about grow the business organically.

Growing a business organically generally refers to growing the business as a whole rather than working to increase an individual part . People may use it wrong but that is what the meaning behind it is.

 

[Phlip]

OMG-This is a like totally awesome thread, like really!
Now that I have your attention-
Nike is two syllables. As is Porsche.
Seriously? No, I am not serious I am joking.
Hamburger is a three syllable word. Not two.
It's Nordstrom, Costco, Wall-mart. No s on the end.
Space is the final frontier, not your living room.
Dude. Must say, I do use this one and awesome a lot-My surfboard is in the back of the woodie.

 

[crz4mm2]

"Gone Missing".
Exactly how do you go missing? You disappear, or are missing.

"It is, what it is".
Usually used by a manager at work when confronted with facts that prove without question that a situation needs to change to fix a problem, comply with the law, eliminated a safety hazard, but the manager has no intention of ever ever ever taking action to do so.

OOoh, I hate that too.

"It is what it is " doesn't really bother me though.

 

[mom2cinderella]

"Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars!"

The moon is what? 200,000 miles from us, and the closest star (our sun) is approximately 93 million miles away?

No, you are not landing among the stars. You are hurtling towards death.

 

[Grandmouse]

Absolutely! It's no problem! See what I'm sayin?

 

[aprilgail2]

My SIL says "nummers." As in, my hamburger was nummers. Ugh.

Ugggg...that is as bad as yummy!!

 

[Poppinsme]

Foreally
Foreals



And I am so sick of this:

 

[KimR]

'Delish' instead of 'declicious'.

 

[AshleyW]

OMG-This is a like totally awesome thread, like really!
Now that I have your attention-
Nike is two syllables. As is Porsche.
Seriously? No, I am not serious I am joking.
Hamburger is a three syllable word. Not two.
It's Nordstrom, Costco, Wall-mart. No s on the end.
Space is the final frontier, not your living room.
Dude. Must say, I do use this one and awesome a lot-My surfboard is in the back of the woodie.

As someone who used to work for Nordstrom, let me say... THANK YOU!! Nothing gets on my nerves worse than hearing someone say "Oh I'm at Nordstrom's..." or "Hey, let's go to Nordstrom's"... UGH!! Seriously, I don't say "I'm going to run to Targets", so why would you say Nordstroms?!

I also dislike -

"At the end of the day..."
"With all due respect..."
"It's not rocket science"
"I, personally,..."
"Oh, what the hey"
"It's all good"
"Don't get me wrong..."

 

[Jennasis]

I should also add...

OVER THE MOON...usually found in Peopl magazine. every celeb mom is "over the moon" about her new baby. Blech!

and

TUMMY.....I cannot stand when people refer to their stomach or their children's stomach as a tummy, particularly when speaking to another adult.

 

[Psychodisney]

"I know right?" and "Really, (insert name)...... really?" are the bane of my existence.

These are mine too! I'm glad I read the thread all the way through! It's funny that my two pet peeves are exactly someone else's.

 

[Sugardimples]

I really don't like when someone responds "no problem" after I say "thank you". What happened to "you're welcome"?

 

[Jenlan]

The abbreviations...ressie, brekkie...drive me crazy. Also "kiddos" - they are children, kids, and in my case, students. And my ex-husband always said "Question for you." and then he would just stop and wait for me to say Yesssss...Aagh! Just ask the darn thing.