[shhrubbery!]

I wonder if these toxic little phrases come from television shows -- sitcoms, maybe? I don't watch them, but through osmosis figured out that the annoying 'yada, yada, yada' came from Seinfeld.

Another dumb ubiquitous phrase is 'lose it,' which I guess means to have an emotional breakdown. Don't know where that came from.

The mother of all stupid phrases is, for me, 'affirmative action.' (Of course it differs from sitcom expressions in that it was created to be obfuscatory, rather than just cute.)

I was in Europe for a couple of years in the early '70s, and when I came back, all the talking head on television were spouting 'affirmative action, affirmative action.' I had no idea what they were talking about.

[lorrainer]

...and when I came back, all the talking head on television were spouting

All your talking head are belong to us.