What phrases drive you crazy?

[Hikergirl]

Adulting

 

[JaneBanks]

Oh, I have more!

Bless your/her/his/their heart

Mamma bear

 

[aristocatz]

Cray Cray
Irregardless....

 

[IAHFTPT]

Hashtag

 

[Nettester]

Baby-Daddy is my pet peeve

Sometimes just to make my teenagers cringe I ask them if the dog is looking "totes adorbs or ratchet?" Or I tell them that their hair/make up is "on point" or "on fleek"

They love it when I use outdated teen-speak, lol

 

[smokeyblue]

Windshield time.

 

[L&Lfan]

Anything mispronounced like that drives me batty.

libary
expecially
realader (it is real-tor)

and there are a couple of others I can't think of at the moment.

How about jewlery for jewelry?

 

[lovin'fl]

Off the chain. Especially when your server uses this to describe item on menu.

 

[JoanneAZ]

I agree with my bad. I always want to ask " Your bad what? Your bad choices? Your bad hair day?" It's not an apology because an apology includes the words "I'm sorry".

Welp (usually in an online post). As in "Welp, I made a reservation today." The word they're looking for is well.

How are we doing? Often asked by a server.

 

[karensi]

My bad....sounds so babyish

baby mama......to me this sounds as if you are talking about a baby who is a mother

put your hands together for....if you put your hands together you are not clapping. You would have to say put your hands together, then move them apart, then put them together again in order to ask the audience to clap.

 

[melanielll]

Sooo many....but one that has irritated me for years is "giving 110%." Sorry - you can only give 100% - that's how the math works.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I'm another ater of the "hot mess"\\

 

[lovin'fl]

Another word that is overused and I hate....authentic.

 

[Cadiewampus]

"Take it to the next level". Not sure why that bothers me so much.

 

[kimblebee]

As others have said..

Fur baby
Four legged child (I saw that on a thread here).
Preggo
Hubby
Hubster

 

[soccerdad72]

Windshield time.

What does that even mean?

 

[smiths02]

Headlines which read

[Celebrity did something] and the internet went wild/lost its mind

It's worse if the celebrity "broke the internet"

The one that bothers me now is "lit." I also used to hate "tight" (well, I still hate it, but no one says it anymore).

No, dear, your 9th birthday party was not "lit."

 

[Cadiewampus]

What does that even mean?

means you are driving a car for a long time

 

[smiths02]

Another one that used to really get me was "proverbial." "Pushing the proverbial envelope"

If the target audience is too uneducated to understand that you aren't literally pushing an envelope, then adding "proverbial" is not going to help.

 

[design_mom]

One that has become popular at the office is "out of pocket" to mean "unavailable." For instance, "I'll be out of pocket after noon tomorrow, so I'll need you to handle the weekly conference call with the client."

I know what they mean, but I can't figure out how the phrase "out of pocket" conveys that.