I really hate when people say something is "old school". what does that mean? when does the old school start and the new school begin?

also...
- "right on"
- "on the same page"
- "developing countries" (what are they developing into? when will we know when they get there? the term is just codified term meaning places where colored people come from)
- "eastern europe" (this term gets bandied about to refer to anything west of france. it's just been abused and means nothing any more)

also, i guess it's too much to ask that people stop saying things are "so cute", but i have hated it for a long time (though i am occasionally guilty of using it)

Let's eliminate AWESOME. My grandchildren use it all the time. I can't stand it!

JB @ #7: Worse, to me, than "It's all good," is "It's goodness," meaning "It's a good thing." People at IBM use that all the time, and I find it horrid. "If we can win in the marketplace, that's goodness."

Another of my favorites & often said on talk shows: Thanks for having me (was the speaker the main course, side dish, or, perhaps, a yummy dessert?)

How are you? "I'm good" like fingernails on a chalkboard. (I'm feeling well!!)

Level playing field

On the same page

Let's dialogue

Empower. Another term used by those who latch onto the latest catch-phrase. They're usually NOT empowered, and the ones who are don't feel the need to use that word.

Oh, one more: "At the end of the day". What an idiotic idiom. Whenever someone starts a sentence with "At the end of the day," I jump in and say "sunset."

I love "The Takeaway" show but the phrase is already as dated as "groovy". What I take away from the show is that you'll soon have to change its name, i.e., if you want to remain groovy.

the phrase "get out????" obviously, its meaning is one is surprised, and the topic at hand, is news... but it sounds so uneducated...
oh my! or are you serious? what?!! or simply something else that does not imply one is 12 years old....

oh my gosh, i'm like afraid to talk now. amazing that like has not only endured in speech but has now like crept into my emails and texts and letters. ugh. sorry.

I teach HS and stupidly liked to believe that i invented
the term: "Crackberry"

I hate any expressions used in "therapy" ie.:

"here's my piece I'm bringing to the table..."
--I hate this term because it triggers a pavolvian reflex to expect dessert or a piece of chocolate

The mantra at my school WAS....
"doing our best" --most often than not, we weren't.

"we need to have that conversation" -- an ultra serious dialogue cloaked in socializing-- but in a stupid office. Its never at a Starbucks w/coffee & a teacake

Comment #1 from karen

"Besides, what happens if you're in the US and your 'soulmate' is living in, say, Argentina???"

As Governor Mark Sanford likes to say...

Roadtrip!

"That said" -- a totally meaningless transition phrase, which can usually be dropped. And what's wrong with "However"?

"seemingly" -- which seemingly appears in seemingly every news or magazine story I read

Comment #1 from karen

"Besides, what happens if you're in the US and your 'soulmate' is living in, say, Argentina???"

Governor Mark Sanford knows what to do.

"in harm's way"

"that's legit"...ugh so horrible!

'Whatnot' makes my skin crawl.

How about:
"I can't wrap my head around..." --actually I'd like to see that in action physically

" We/I need to unpack the ____..."

"Crackberry": I teach HS I & stupidly thought I invented this word

Referring to EVERYTHING as "amazing"

If everything is amazing, then NOTHING is.

"these ones"

I'm sick of hearing 'what is the takeaway?' or 'the takeaway from this is.....'

I seem to hear that a LOT on NPR.

"Issues"

"The King of Pop"

I HATE Americans using the Britishism "spot on".

It's all good. Yuk.

FML, an acronym and text speak.

No worries!

UGH!!!!!

Most irritating work phrases:

• on my/your radar
• fleshed out (often misspelled flushed)
• capacity (when used to describe if someone can do more or less work)

Cheers - if you aren't european. this drives me nuts when americans say it.

and, unpack, as in "can you unpack the situation for us?" i used to like it but now find it overused... sounds lofty to me now.

i used to like the term "unpack" as in "can you unpack the situation for us?" and now i just find it overused.

SOULMATE! A huge red flag that the relationship is doomed. It is extremely emotionally immature to believe that there is only ONE person for you in the whole world or that love doesn't need to be nutured or worked at, it just miraculously appears. Besides, what happens if you're in the US and your 'soulmate' is living in, say, Argentina???