The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

[Marc Chevalier]

The most common use of "como no" is as a response to a request, such as:

"Can you please give me _____?"

"Cómo no."

It's still used in Buenos Aires by waiters of a certain age.


(Incidentally, Buenos Aires is famous for its waiters: they never, ever write down any orders on a notepad -- no matter how many customers are at a table. They take great pride in their powers of memorization.)


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[jamespowers]

Cool Beans:

Originated in America during the late 1960s. Hits of [tabbed drugs] were dubbed "cool beans" for their bean-like shape. They were also referred to as "whacky beans" or just "beans."

Interjection

cool beans

1. okay; a humorous and light-hearted nonsense phrase

References

* J.E. Lightner "Historical dictionary of American Slang (Vol 2)" (New York: Random House Publishing 2007; ISBN 978-0195174182).

Hippies and drugs. Gee, who would have thought?

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Hippies and drugs. Gee, who would have thought?

...lol lol lol lol

 

[jamespowers]

...lol lol lol lol

Someone call the 1970s their village idiot got loose again.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Bump
Bump is an annoying term.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I can't abide "reach out," as in "We're reaching out to you today to...." What's wrong with "We're contacting you today..." or "We're asking you today..." or "We're inquiring about..."

Corporate jargon in any form makes me want to vomit, but especially when it's wrapped up in a fake touchy-feely manner exuding from the insincere lips of a cheap PR flack. Get a real job, schmuck.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Hmph. Doesn't anybody say "eat yer greens" anymore?

Nope, they say "Eat your Green S or E142."

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Price Point makes me crazy!
“At that price point....blah blah” is a waste of 5 keystrokes and sounds so pretentious. Some times the boardroom econo-speak need not leave the boardroom.

 

[Edward]

I hate, loathe and despise the use of the word "wicked" as a substitute for "cool", an expression of approval. It makes me want to bludgeon the person employing the word in that fashion with the bloodied stump of their own arm.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Another and i’ll feel better.
In some regions, when someone is given or takes a bath, they say “I bathed”(short a) Granny or whatever. Totally drove me crazy when i moved to WV. I just want to yell “Bathe...bathe”!
Bath is a noun...bathe is a verb!
I feel better now.
B

 

[LizzieMaine]

I hate, loathe and despise the use of the word "wicked" as a substitute for "cool", an expression of approval. It makes me want to bludgeon the person employing the word in that fashion with the bloodied stump of their own arm.

The correct phrase, as all New Englanders know, is "wicked pissah!"

 

[tonyb]

Price Point makes me crazy!
“At that price point....blah blah” is a waste of 5 keystrokes and sounds so pretentious. Some times the boardroom econo-speak need not leave the boardroom.

I’m right with you, man. Those two-word (and more) phrases where one word will suffice annoy me as well.

“Skill set”? How ’bout “skills”?

“Lived experience”? What other kind of experience is there? Vicarious experience, maybe? But isn’t that phrase kinda oxymoronic?

 

[Nobert]

I have hated the phrase "disconnect," used as a noun, since its inception. It's the apotheosis of looking like one is making up a new concept or paradigm when it is, in reality, just dropping a syllable. And now even otherwise rational and educated people are using it. You expect this drivel from corporate ne'er-do-wells, but it has become insidious.

"Multitasking," meanwhile, comes from the same gene pool of company buzzwords, and means even less. Every job will require you to, at some point, do more than one thing at a time. The notion that most people (including self-described multitaskers) can do seven things at once as effectively as a single task has been disproven by researchers, but the word is still the bane of any of us who have had to do rounds of interviews, knowing in the pit of our stomachs that someone in H.R. may trot it out, because they have heard of it, and it sounded good at the time.

My least charitable peeve, I admit, is "draw." Specifically, those who write the word "draw," when they mean "drawer." I cop to being a bit snobbish here, because I know that some people have arhotic accents and may actually have it had in their heads as young ones that that's how it was spelled. You can pronounce it any way you like, but when it comes to the written word, learn the difference, says I.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's the root of the old vaudeville line -- "Cold weather is coming -- winter draws on." The accent was common enough at the turn of the last century that everybody in the Northeast got the joke.

 

[tonyb]

Has “at the end of the day” made the roster yet?

 

[tonyb]

And ...

“I could care less” when what the speaker hopes to convey is just the opposite.

I take it as a sign of the speaker not thinking about what he or she is saying.

It’s not just us trailer trash given to this. I recently heard former California attorney general, now U.S. senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris say “I could care less.” I was tempted to bring it to the attention of her campaign staff.

 

[Frunobulax]

ATM "machine," MSDS "sheet," etc. Stop repeating yourself.

Using lesser when fewer is correct.

In professional settings, over the past 15 years or so - usually when making a presentation - it's become common to pronounce "processes" as "processeez." I'm on a personal mission to stand athwart language saying "stop!" on this one.

And don't get me started on apostrophes.

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[Nobert]

And ...

“I could care less” when what the speaker hopes to convey is just the opposite.

I take it as a sign of the speaker not thinking about what he or she is saying.

It’s not just us trailer trash given to this. I recently heard former California attorney general, now U.S. senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris say “I could care less.” I was tempted to bring it to the attention of her campaign staff.

 

[3fingers]

Lived experience

Along with "living my truth". Apparently what I thought truth meant is open to interpretation.
I'm not sure but we'll "circle back" after we "drill down" to "break through the clutter".

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

And another:
The ever dismissive, especially when spoken in a snarky tone, by my children when i just finished telling them something friggin important, that could save a life, like “it’s 5 compressions then 1 breath”....whatever.
No....not whatever...it’s exactly this...