top Ten Irritating Phrases

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<p>Enjoy and add to the list:
[Oxford</a> compiles list of top ten irritating phrases - Telegraph](<a href=“Oxford compiles list of top ten irritating phrases”>Oxford compiles list of top ten irritating phrases)</p>

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<p>One of my fellow students would say, “Your point is well taken,” every time someone said something critical at a critique. By the end of the day I was ready to strangle him!</p>

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<p>No. 12 - That being said,
And its variations: That said, Having said that,</p>

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<p>“It is what it is”</p>

<p>“threw him/her under the bus”</p>

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<p>Grow the economy.</p>

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<p>Drink the Kool-Aid.
Change the paradigm (or anything that even mentions the paradigm).</p>

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<p>The three most commonly misused words/phrases that I encounter are:</p>

<p>“countless”</p>

<p>“110 per cent”</p>

<p>“literally”.</p>

<p>I myself have literally given 110% effort in countless activities.</p>

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This is the one that makes my teeth hurt. My husband says it all the time.</p>

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<p>My students cannot discuss somethng, or even write an essay, without the phrase “I feel as though”.</p>

<p>What do you mean by “as though”??? Just tell we what you think!</p>

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<p>“your mileage may vary”. That was clever, oh, maybe the first ten thousand times someone said it.</p>

<p>“Too much on my plate”</p>

<p>“on the same page”</p>

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<p>those ones…</p>

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<p>My H does, too. Maybe it’s a man thing. :)</p>

<p>“touch base with you” is another one that I find annoying.</p>

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<p>“My Friends”</p>

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<p>In presentations, when someone is breaking something down, I hate when they say, “the evaluation piece” or “the instructional piece” or whatever . . . that phrase “the piece.” I’m so sick of it!</p>

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<p>“doing the hard work of…”</p>

<p>“unpacking” anything abstract–a concept, a plan, etc.</p>

<p>any kind of conceptual “toolkit.”</p>

<p>Pretty much all hackneyed efforts to make abstract blather seem concrete and real.</p>

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<p>Ditto to, “Keep drinking the Kool-Aide”. God, that’s got to be one of the most presumptuously arrogant lines there is. I honestly wish everyone who ever used that “witty” line would be shot in the face. -_-</p>

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<p>“take a listen”</p>

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<p>“At the end of the day…” is a phrase I’m hearing way too often. It’s starting to annoy me.</p>

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<p>There is a phrase which I have never heard any where but Massachusetts that annoys me more than any other; “so don’t I”. This actually means something along the lines of “I agree.”</p>

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<p>Not quite phrases but I have a pet peeve about the use of 24/7 and 'nuff said.</p>