01-28-2020, 01:26 PM | #1 |
Wizard
Posts: 1,035
Karma: 12018368
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Canada
Device: Sony PRS-650, Kobo Clara
|
Current Phrases You Can't Stand
If you're like me, then you notice things when you're reading a book or watching a movie or TV. You notice trends. Once you notice them, it seems you see them everywhere. If you're like me, then they soon get on your nerves. What once might have seemed unique and clever has become trite and over-used. I'll give a couple of examples of what I mean, and invite you to add your candidates. These are dialog, but you don't have to restrict yourself.
"Wait. What?" "I know, right?" |
01-28-2020, 01:34 PM | #2 |
Wizard
Posts: 2,776
Karma: 30081762
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: US
Device: ALL DEVICES ARE STOCK: Kobo Clara, Tolino Shine 2, Sony PRS-T3, T1
|
"lean into"
|
Advert | |
|
01-28-2020, 02:11 PM | #3 |
Now what?
Posts: 60,505
Karma: 135181808
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Durham, NC
Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!
|
"cautiously optimistic"
|
01-28-2020, 05:09 PM | #4 |
Running with scissors
Posts: 1,555
Karma: 14325282
Join Date: Nov 2019
Device: none
|
What about single words? I actually get tired of actually seeing the word actually; it's actually often used too much.
|
01-28-2020, 05:17 PM | #5 |
Running with scissors
Posts: 1,555
Karma: 14325282
Join Date: Nov 2019
Device: none
|
My favorite ones to hate are the ones the journalists beat to death. It's finally dying out but the "N things you need to know about X" used to make me laugh. It's sort of morphed into "What we know about X".
|
Advert | |
|
01-28-2020, 05:18 PM | #6 |
Not scared!
Posts: 13,424
Karma: 81011643
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Midlands, UK
Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10, Huawei M5 10
|
"literally"
|
01-28-2020, 05:45 PM | #7 |
null operator (he/him)
Posts: 20,937
Karma: 27620688
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sydney Australia
Device: none
|
A word that's bothering me, rather than one I can't stand
Use of the word 'liberation' in the context of the Russians arriving at Auschwitz in January 1945, and the arrival of the Free French Army arriving in Paris in August 1944.
Doesn't feel right to use the same word for both events. I think the opening of the death camps needs a different word, one that conveys the horror - but I don't have one BR Last edited by BetterRed; 01-28-2020 at 06:15 PM. Reason: title |
01-28-2020, 06:31 PM | #8 |
Now what?
Posts: 60,505
Karma: 135181808
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Durham, NC
Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!
|
"wreak havoc" -- used indiscriminately for anything that goes wrong
|
01-28-2020, 07:18 PM | #9 |
Wizard
Posts: 1,035
Karma: 12018368
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Canada
Device: Sony PRS-650, Kobo Clara
|
|
01-28-2020, 07:28 PM | #10 |
o saeclum infacetum
Posts: 20,562
Karma: 224837692
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: New England
Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5
|
"iconic"
...used about anything at all, now, so that it's meaningless. |
01-28-2020, 07:51 PM | #11 | |
Old Gadget Guy
Posts: 1,910
Karma: 6854865
Join Date: Jun 2018
Device: Oasis 3, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPad mini 6, iPad Air 2020, Alexa Devices
|
I’m sick of hearing:
Quote:
|
|
01-28-2020, 07:55 PM | #12 |
null operator (he/him)
Posts: 20,937
Karma: 27620688
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sydney Australia
Device: none
|
"stand up" - an evacuation centre, a quarantine facility, a consulate etc.
Might be local jargon, our Marketing Manager says it all the time. BR |
01-28-2020, 08:04 PM | #13 |
Now what?
Posts: 60,505
Karma: 135181808
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Durham, NC
Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!
|
"shout out" - used as a noun
|
01-28-2020, 09:16 PM | #14 |
hopeless n00b
Posts: 5,110
Karma: 19597086
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: in the middle of nowhere
Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9
|
|
01-28-2020, 10:17 PM | #15 |
Surfin the alpha waves ~~
Posts: 25,011
Karma: 459220161
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: New Jersey
Device: Jetbook Lite & Mini, Nook STR, Kobo, Hanvon N516, Kindle 2, Androids
|
When something happens and it ... "turns his/her world upside down."
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Writing Phrases and Words I Detest | Dr. Drib | Writers' Corner | 98 | 10-12-2017 10:24 AM |
How to export chosen neat phrases from books? | gilc333 | Onyx Boox | 1 | 09-08-2017 08:03 AM |
Can't read phonetic phrases in Kindle dictionary | xneuromancer | Amazon Kindle | 3 | 07-30-2013 01:12 AM |
another regex puzzle - detect capitalised phrases | cybmole | Sigil | 6 | 02-24-2012 09:04 AM |
Podzinger -- Searches for phrases within podcasts | Bob Russell | Lounge | 2 | 01-16-2006 04:36 PM |