Expressions you hate..

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  • Rockmyskinnyjeans
    Rockmyskinnyjeans Posts: 431 Member
    XXX # of pounds gone forever!!! I really HATE hearing that saying, because I know how easy it is to gain it back with the least bit of stress. I've seen too many people say that exact phrase and gain back everything they lost. I might be the only one this bothers, but it honestly does irk me.
  • Darlingir
    Darlingir Posts: 437
    I absolutely LOATHE when people write an email to multiple people and start it off by saying "Hey All" or "All".
    I effing HATE that! My name is not All! If you're writing to multiple people, just use a generic saying like "Hello", "Hi", Good Morning/Afternoon" etc.
    How friggin' hard is that??!!

    Also, I hate, hate, HATE, when people say sorry to someone after a loved one passes away.
    Why are you sorry? Is it your fault they died?
    This was said to me so many times after my dad passed away, I wanted to vomit every time I heard it.

    I think it's "sorry" as in I feel for you, not "sorry" as in a I apologize...I suppose
  • MFPBrandy
    MFPBrandy Posts: 564 Member
    Wait!....What?
    As a high school teacher this makes me want to puke.

    oh no...I'm guilty of this!
    I think many of us are guilty of at least one thing on this thread. :)
  • Katie3784
    Katie3784 Posts: 543
    "Everything happens for a reason." As an atheist, this one really gets to me. I also loathe when people say "I could care less" rather than "I couldn't care less." It's like they aren't even thinking about what they are saying.
  • kiwipez
    kiwipez Posts: 144
    My Bad
    FML
    Honestly
    Everything's copacetic - I really hate this one!
  • hapoo100
    hapoo100 Posts: 926 Member
    "Irregardless" totally drives me insane.

    yes! this is exactly it!
  • Darlingir
    Darlingir Posts: 437
    Karma will come his/her way

    ....honestly I don't believe in Karma. No one knows if that person will EVER get what they have coming to them...
  • Krizzo87
    Krizzo87 Posts: 14,186 Member
    Same difference....drives me crazy!!!
  • Wysteriajo
    Wysteriajo Posts: 14
    "Back in the day . . ." in my history class. When was "the day" exactly? Was there just one other day? And everything happened on it?
  • GeorgieLove708
    GeorgieLove708 Posts: 442 Member
    "I'll pray for you" is my number one most hated phrase. Even though I don't believe in god I don't mind when people say it in a nice way. Okay, I don't like it, it makes me feel awkward, but I can accept it. However, the number of times I have had this aimed at me along with "CPS should take away your children" or "You're going to hell" just because I have tattoos and purple hair makes me want to vomit every time I hear it.
  • propskat
    propskat Posts: 191 Member
    "My Bad".

    My mother taught me proper grammar (by constantly correcting me).
    Therefore this statement is completely illogical to me!! :)
  • Darlingir
    Darlingir Posts: 437
    "I'll pray for you" "CPS should take away your children" or "You're going to hell"

    those are expressions?
  • crochetnut
    crochetnut Posts: 35
    I know, right? - Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo soooooo sooo annoying!
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    1. "There's nothing you (or we) can do"
    I'm not a submissive person so whenever I hear this phrase, I feel like hitting the one who said that with a steel rod. While there are indeed some things that is way beyond our control but that doesn't mean that it is impossible. That phrase really doesn't help except to make more people lazy.

    2. "God has a better plan for you"
    That's why my faith weakened & then my uber religious parents would wonder why, LMAO!!
  • GeorgieLove708
    GeorgieLove708 Posts: 442 Member
    "I'll pray for you" "CPS should take away your children" or "You're going to hell"

    those are expressions?

    I consider "I'll pray for you" to be an expression. The others are just part of the explanation for why I hate it.
  • jjteddy1982
    jjteddy1982 Posts: 107
    I hate with all my heart "NEEDLESS TO SAY" stupid expression!!!!!
  • hollyNhollywood
    hollyNhollywood Posts: 426 Member
    If I hear "It is what it is" one more time I will burst...I was at the store today and someone next to me said it....I think I bit my knuckles!!! My apologies to frequent users of this expression...but...I - just - can't - stand it..

    what do you got?

    Yes! Yes!! Me too! I can't stand it.
    What is worse is "it was what it was"..
    Really!??!?!

    Ugh.
    Another pet peeve of mine is when people say "wah-lah" instead of "voila!" "Wah-lah" isn't a word. lol (I hear this ALL the time on the HGTV shows.. its like nails on a chalk board for me)
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    "Everything happens for a reason"...bleh!
  • AliciaBeth78
    AliciaBeth78 Posts: 437 Member
    I can't stand when people say, "For all intensive purposes!"

    SERIOUSLY!!! WTF DOES THAT EVEN MEAN????

    It's for all intents and purposes!
  • realia
    realia Posts: 169 Member
    "Time heals all wounds."
    "Same difference."
    "Everything happens for a reason."
    "If God meant for it to happen, then it would have happen."

    I kept hearing these after my dad passed away and after I didn't get into NYU. The two lowest points of my life. :mad:
  • kayemme
    kayemme Posts: 1,782 Member
    It's all good.

    NOOOOOO, it's NOTTTTTTTTT!!!!

    oh, but it is (if you want it to be) :)
  • AliciaBeth78
    AliciaBeth78 Posts: 437 Member
    Oh and the expression, "Bless your heart!"

    All southern women know that means nothing more than "Go f**k yourself!"
  • ElizabethObviously
    ElizabethObviously Posts: 380 Member
    My ones are :

    You have such potential. (which makes me feel what I have now is *kitten*!)

    You have such a pretty face...( because everyone knows after that is the unheard rest of 'but the rest of you needs serious work")
  • MisterGoodBar
    MisterGoodBar Posts: 157 Member
    "it is what it is" hate it and the phrase "vajayay" it sounds so unpleasant and adolescent.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    "Everything happens for a reason"...bleh!
    I forgot to put that one... I hate that as well especially if coupled up with "God has a better plan for you" , BOOOOOOOOOO!
  • kwest_4_fitness
    kwest_4_fitness Posts: 820 Member
    While not an expression, hearing people say they want to 'aks' a question or say 'ek cetera'.

    EXCETERA IS THE WORST.

    The f---ing term is ET. The Latin word for "and". CETERA. The Latin word for OTHER THINGS.

    It's also not ect. ...It's etc.

    I think I love you. Or as the kids say, I heart you! As a former Latin student, this one grates on my nerves so badly. I want to smack someone when they use, spell or pronounce it incorrectly. Another one that slays me is the "c" in miscellaneous. It's silent; I wish everyone knew that. Oh, and the "ask" not "aks"...I can't even talk about that one.
  • snowmaniac
    snowmaniac Posts: 600 Member
    Oh snap
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    Also...words shortened for the sake of trendiness...like "Oh she's just jelly" (as in jealous) and girls adding in the word "so" unnecessarily like "are you SOOOO excited?!"

    OMG! I hate that too. I was watching last season of American idol, and every time, Jennifer Lopez said, "I got goosies..." I got irritated, It's goosebumps!!
  • Aviendha_RJ
    Aviendha_RJ Posts: 600 Member
    1) "guestimate"... it's "estimate"... thanks. "guestimate" is NOT a word.

    2) "Irregardless"... it's "regardless". Believe me. If you don't, look it up.

    3) "That's gay"... Do I even HAVE to explain this one? It's just rude, insensitive, & makes you sound homophobic... No, I'm not gay, but it still sounds like nails on a chalkboard.

    4) "I was Jipped/Jewed"... racist comment against Gypsies/Jewish People used as nazi propaganda to make people think they were thieves, & that was why they needed to be (as a race!) killed... and YES... I *do* ask people if they know the origin of that phrase when they use it, and am not afraid to tell people the TRUE meaning of what they just said. Once again... I'm not a Gypsy, nor am I Jewish.
  • I've always hated "Not for nothin' but..." You can rest assured whatever comes after this is stoooooopid