Phrases that like really bug us all, basically

The Telegraph ^ | 5/29/2007 | Johanna Leggatt

[bruinbirdman]

"That's so gay."

[Diogenesis]

I’ve got to go clean the yard.
There is a small tree I will chop down, and then chop up.

[bruinbirdman]

"partnering", "texting"

yi9tbos

[Aeronaut]

I’ve been driving on the parkway, now I am going to park in the driveway.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This sort of thing is a stock slow news day filler item. I’m sorry, but not a particularly good example, either. I like certain Briticisms like, “Stop whinging.”

[Man50D]

Same difference.

[Wil H]

I cannot stand “winningest”

[albee]

bump for later read

[bruinbirdman]

"This sort of thing is a stock slow news day filler item."

Early morning, slow post day filler.

yitbos

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

OK, I’ll stop whinging.

[Syberyenta]

“Thusly”

[Yankee]

“multitasking” which apparently means (at least at my job) banging your own head against the wall while your boss simultaneously kicks you in your ass.

[Thrownatbirth]

I never understood “your personal” whatever from nose hair trimmers to pan pizza. I suppose it’s meant to appeal to people who grew up in orpanages and had to share every worldly possession with the other kids.

[BubbaJunebug]

“at the end of the day”

[ichabod1]

No, that’s a good one.

[ichabod1]

“At the end of the day”

That one annoys me, but it’s a pretty descriptive aphorism.

Here are some that annoy mean because the original meaning is (mostly) lost: Mixed bag, cakewalk, decimated.

[GATOR NAVY]

“I could care less” when they really mean “I couldn’t care less.”

[ichabod1]

I think we’ve, at least partially, like the word ‘liberal’ managed to turn ‘multicultural’ into a bad word. Even ‘diversity’ is coming to be recognized as a synonym for ‘bullshite.’

[ichabod1]

sleeping in.