Annoying (to me) Phrases

[Acmemfg]

I am not a linguist, but from time to time certain "catch phrases" or slang terms when spoken just go through me like a hot knife through butter.

Having recently finished a "conversation" with another person, I was convinced if I had heard "Really???" and "Just Sayin'" one more time I would fall off the chair.

The "Really??" (indicating a sense of sarcastic disbelief) seems to be replacing the popular/gone viral Valley Talk "Oh my God!!" phrase (also not a favorite of mine) lately and although I guess it sounds OK coming from a Jr High student, there is somethiing about hearing it every 30 seconds during talk with a 55 year old.

"Just Sayin'..." by definition alone discounts the speaker and the point they are attempting to make....by definition-from "Urban Dictionary":
"a phrase used to indicate that we refuse to defend a claim we've made---in other words, that we refuse to offer reasons that what we've said is true"
So essentially when qualified with the "just sayin..." tacked onto the end, it indicates the statement is as legit as you think the speaker is and has no other value.

......now if there was ever a time to utilize this trite phrase, it would be right NOW.

Anyway...hey y'all have a Happy 4th!!!

 

[buffdaddy]

"It is, what it is"- The most over used phrase of the last 20 years. Think I first heard it when I first saw Goodfellas.

 

[luvmysuper]

Really?

I think catch phrases cycle through and try not to import any hidden meanings behind them aside from the fact that people tend to pick up what is currently in the popular vernacular.

It is what it is.

Just sayin'...

 

[DC_MPA]

Just sayin' to me is a way of someone to say something and it's their way to get out of being held accountable.

It really ticks me off too and I'm 29 years old haha.

 

[AABCDS]

• +1 on "Just saying."
• "It is what it is." - Thanks for the clarification. I actually thought that it is what it isn't. A != B?!
• "Not so much." - "Do you like that?" "Not so much." That phrase doesn't even make sense. Not so much what?

That's it for now but I'm sure I'll think of others.

 

[rickboone1]

I agree with the just sayin'. Of course you're just sayin' you just said it! Well, more often than not, they're just typin'. One of my biggest is YMMV. I don't know why but man that one just irks me. Also, SWMBO.

 

[AABCDS]

I agree with the just sayin'. Of course you're just sayin' you just said it! Well, more often than not, they're just typin'. One of my biggest is YMMV. I don't know why but man that one just irks me.

I have no problem with that one.

Spoiler

YMMV. Hey, no one made you click it!

 

[oc_in_fw]

Hey, no one made you click it

That's what she said. Seriously, I hope that one runs its course soon.

 

[Walter Sobchak]

I could do without people saying "That's Amazing!" in reference to things that are merely above average to good.

 

[D.W.B.]

"Like a hot knife through butter."

 

[luvmysuper]

I'm much more annoyed by catch phrases that have been adopted from popular films or TV shows like "Show me the money" or "Houston, we have a problem" than I am merely popular current phrases.

About the only other one that irks me is "I'm not going to lie to you..." or "To be perfectly honest..."

And possibly "With all due respect..." Because when you hear that, I guarantee the very next thing you hear from that mouth will be dis-respectful.

 

[jtb]

Paradigm shift

 

[inspiringK]

When someone says "no offense", you know they are about to say something that will offend. Or, the ugly older brother "I don't mean to be racist, but..."

Also, more of an expression than a phrase and possibly only annoying to me because I don’t understand it – “you can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Have cake, will eat!!!

 

[Kentos]

I don't like "what?", when an "excuse me", or "I'm sorry?" is warranted.

 

[noahpictures]

I could do without people saying "That's Amazing!" in reference to things that are merely above average to good.

+1

I witnessed an exchange between a guy and a woman in a store that went like this:

Guy: How are you?
Woman: Amazing!

Really? Amazing? Out of all things she was amazing? I thought it was narcissitic on her part. BTW looks wise there was nothing amazing about this person, I mean nothing. Just sayin'

 

[AABCDS]

+1

I witnessed an exchange between a guy and a woman in a store that went like this:

Guy: How are you?
Woman: Amazing!

Really? Amazing? Out of all things she was amazing? I thought it was narcissitic on her part. BTW looks wise there was nothing amazing about this person, I mean nothing. Just sayin'

This made me chuckle, Noah.

 

[benvh]

"At the end of the day..." in a business setting annoys the crap out of me. It's like a business stutter or something.

Ben

 

[OldSchoolYoungin]

"May or may not be".

 

[scottish steve]

There are so many things people say all the time which I find irritating I can sometimes feel distinctly misanthropic. "Going forward", "Fashion forward", "In real time", "Beta Testing", "I could care less", "Awesome" "The market" and a host of other phrases, catchwords and the like which show the person speaking has put no thought whatsoever into what s/he is saying. I HATE the fact that we are all supposed to pretend to be fast-moving, go-getting, finger-on-the-pulse, part-time stockbrockers who idolise anyone who's made a bit of money and think Ray Charles is "Jazz" (NO-ONE mention Jamie Cullum or I'll puke over my keyboard).
I have had to make a deliberate effort to get away from a large proportion of the ex-pat community here as so many of them talk so much rubbish it makes me sick. Like the guy who'd just been fired for the 5th time in 2 years complaing to me that the Chinese "Just don't know how it works". Their country mate, you're obviously not getting that fact. And if you love 'freedom' so much why the $%^$$ are you living in a Communist Dictatorship?

 

[mdove47]

"At this point in time"....what is wrong with "now"