Turn of phrases you hate

[Velcro]

I don't trust X as far as I can throw them really gets on my tits. Any others you guys dinnae liek

 

[mayfly]

Thank you sooooo much!

 

[Paul-less]

"all of the sudden."


WTF is "all of the sudden"  ????

SAY SUDDENLY!

 

[Velcro]

Another one, I know it's a bit dark :evil4: sometimes you get headlies where it says someone was brutally murdered, what? Can someone be gently murdered? 

 

[jalane]

"At the end of the day..." has always kind of bothered me

 

[CrackedPepper]

"all of the sudden."


WTF is "all of the sudden"  ????

SAY SUDDENLY!

I always thought it was "all of a sudden"... 

 

[ptirman]

He died of a "massive" heart attack. Well if it kills someone, probably wasn't mild. How about, all of a sudden, he died of a massive heart attack.

 

[NLD09]

I notice that yahoo news has started using the word "epic" to describe anything. An epic soccer goal, an epic windstorm, an epic sweater. It's getting Epicly annoying.

 

[Velcro]

I epicly agree, I don't like the overuse of the word epic. Also I don't like the phrase "turn of phrase". :icon_scratch:

 

[taez555]

He died of a "massive" heart attack. Well if it kills someone, probably wasn't mild. How about, all of a sudden, he died of a massive heart attack.

Even better..  "All of the sudden, he died of a massive, fatal, heart attack"

 

[Velcro]

Same difference is another one I don't like

 

[mayfly]

I epicly agree, I don't like the overuse of the word epic. Also I don't like the phrase "turn of phrase". :icon_scratch:

I actually like "turn of the word"  as in, "she had the ability to mesmerize her audience with a turn of a word"

Being a songwriter, I like words that sound good together - just not ones that are horribly overused in modern media.

 

[Velcro]

here here :rock-on:

 

[AutoBat]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15664_9-words-that-dont-mean-what-you-think.html
^those, plus Factoid
A factoid is a small piece of information that is false, but often thought as true.

 

[NLD09]

He died of a "massive" heart attack. Well if it kills someone, probably wasn't mild. How about, all of a sudden, he died of a massive heart attack.

Even better..   "All of the sudden, he died of a massive, fatal, heart attack"

of epic proportions?

 

[GoDrex]

I hate "really gets on my tits." WTF does that mean? :icon_scratch: :laughing7:

 

[m4rk0]

I dislike all phrases that belong on a bullshiit bingo...
I have actually played that once during a meeting..

I also dislike the word "uber"  (or any other German word that is trying to sneak in the day to day English language)

 

[Paul-less]

He died of a "massive" heart attack. Well if it kills someone, probably wasn't mild. How about, all of a sudden, he died of a massive heart attack.

Even better..   "All of the sudden, he died of a massive, fatal, heart attack"

of epic proportions?

at the end of the day?

 

[Kadmium]

Another one, I know it's a bit dark :evil4: sometimes you get headlies where it says someone was brutally murdered, what? Can someone be gently murdered? 

"Comic scenes today as a clown is hilariously murdered."

I hate it when people say "I could care less." That means you have to care at least a little, if you could care less. That's pretty much the opposite of what you mean. The phrase for which you're ineffectually grasping is "I couldn't care less."

Also, "a whole nother" and "sweating like a pig" (pigs have no sweat glands; that's why they roll in mud to keep cool), "begs the question" (it doesn't mean what most people think it means) and not knowing the difference between "less" and "fewer."

Incidentally, the phrase is, "All of a sudden," not "All of the sudden."

Oh yeah, I'm great at parties .

 

[bpmorton777]

the two I hate the most are juxtaposition and paradigm...if yo use these there is a reason for you getting shot..

Brian