There should be a ban on overused phrases and ones that are really annoying; and ones that should have expired. I have a few candidates.
My Bad - Used instead of "I made a mistake". From the first day I heard this one it grated on my grammatical sense. It sounds so juvenile and illiterate. I've never used it.
Throw him/her/them under the bus - This one is just plan old and worn out. Retire it.

Down here in South Jersey there are two phrases I hear all time and I want to know if they are unique to this area or are they common in other areas. By common I mean used all the time.
Have a good one. Used when departing instead of "have a nice day" or simply "goodbye".
No Problem.Used as a response to "thank you". Both of them bug me.

Get the fuck outta here, MC.

Now as for overused phrases, let me think .

MC, I agree about "throwing under the bus". As far as "mistake" goes, God , how overused. "I'm sorry I murdered those people. I made a mistake." If I pick up the wrong keys, that's amistake. But applying it to just about any illegal or immoral action - get outta her!

"That being said . . ."

"He's good people."

"It is what it is."

"It's so surreal." ---- I really hate that one. Every time a pinhead celebrity wins an award they say, "Its all so surreal." I'd like to ask Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton to spell it .

One that made me want to scream everytime I heard it was
"He thinks he's all that plus a bag of chips"

Sometimes I'll say "Have a good one".

How about "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less"?

Pizza Boy - Amen! I am SO sick of people saying "It was surreal" I could vomit!

It is what it is you know. Today at work I made a mistake in front of my boss and a co-worker who thinks he's all that plus a bag of chips.

But before my co-worker could throw me under the bus my boss interrupted and said "Lilo's good people". So I said "My bad" and proceeded to correct the error.

That being said, I don't like to make errors and since I usually don't it was all so surreal. So I apologized to my boss and he said "Just don't make a habit of it". He thanked me for swiftly fixing the error. Of course I said "No problem".

When I left I told everyone to have a good one. Cause you know, when all is said and done, at the end of the day, for all intents and purposes, the bottom line is we're a team.

"I could care less..."

You could also interpret it like

I could care less [but I don't]

"wait till next year" its so annoying...if i hear it i punch either a white sox fan or cardinal fan.

If you have teenagers, you quickly get sick of "WhatEVER!", also, the word "no" gets an extra syllable, as in "No-uh!".

In business, I learned to hate "synergistic" and as a parent "diorama" and "rubric".

God, I really, really don't like rubric. So many of my colleagues use it and it almost drives me crazy to hear it.

Those two have been around literally* forever! In fact, the latter is abbreviated np in online parlance. I don't have a problem with either of them, and use them myself.

*NOT literally forever, but that's one example of a phrase used all the time. Nothing's been around "literally forever" except perhaps the cosmos. lol

It also grinds my gears when people misuse irony instead of coincidence... Big difference!

And LOL, Lilo -- well, not really "laughing out loud", but "haha that was amusing" ROTFLMAO

It is but it isn't.

Long story short

Thinking outside the box

the misuse of "in lieu of"

"irregardless"

genius

whatever

back in the day

Oh yeah, I forgot that one.

Good job Lilo.

dt.....I do love that good ole "irregardless"

how about "shits and giggles"? I just don't get that one.

The Col. says that one.

ANother one that drives me crazy is when a wait-person comes up to you while you are taking a break from eating ans asks "Are you done?" First of all I might be finished, but I am not "done." Second they should be able to tell by where I put my utensils on the plate, and third if I am sinished or not they should not take away the plate untl everyone else at the table is finished.

Also when you talk on the phone to repair people or credit card people who are in India, they always say their names are something like "Troy" or "Skip." This is obviously untrue.
Are they trying to protect their identiies? Do they not want us to find out their surnames are either Patel or Singh?

I have a lady sitting near me at work who always cheerily answers the phone with either: 'YO!', or "Hey there..." (when she knows the caller, of course).

The fact that she's in her mid-50's might just contribute to how silly this sounds.

Apple

Yes, "irregardless". Uggh.

One particular word that irritates the hell out of me is the (over)use of the word "event":

Weather forecasters now refer to a thunderstorm as a "rain event."

A car dealership will now have a "sales event."

I swear, I once even heard death described as a "life cessation event"!



Just boggles the mind...

Signor V.

They've been told to do that by the companies for which they work. Some Americans are extremely upset with the whole idea of outsourcing and don't mind sharing these feelings over the phone, often in a hostile or vulgar way. In order to try to avoid this reaction, many firms work very hard to get their workers to try to assume a stereotypically "American" identity. This includes reduction of accent and assumption of non stereotypically Indian name. Obviously this doesn't work most of the time.

Especially with the accent.

Dare we touch the subject of politically correct "language"??

George Carlin did a wonderful routine on annoying words and expressions and how we've become used to using them to hide their real meanings. Here is a transcript of that routine. Take a minute to read it and see if you don't agree:

"I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language.

And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation.

For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. I'll give you an example of that. There's a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum. Can't take anymore input. The nervous system has either (click) snapped or is about to snap.

In the first world war, that condition was called Shell Shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables, Shell Shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was seventy years ago.

Then a whole generation went by and the second world war came along and very same combat condition was called Battle Fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell Shock! Battle Fatigue.

Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called Operational Exhaustion. Hey, were up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It's totally sterile now. Operational exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car.

Then of course, came the war in Viet Nam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Still eight syllables, but we've added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I'll bet you if we'd of still been calling it Shell Shock, some of those Viet Nam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I'll betcha. I'll betcha."

LOL(laugh out laugh)

I hate that saying..

You know, I know there a some, but for some reason the only really annoying word/term that comes to mind right now is "Diva." Everybody is a "Diva".

I always thought (and really never bothered to check) that Diva referred to a female Opera Singer. Nowadays, any female singer it seems is a Diva. From Madonna to J-Lo, to Whitney Houston, Barbara Streisand. Why even just yesterday, I was reading an article about Dancing With The Stars claiming that Kate (Jon & Kate Fame) was acting like a "diva." Any bratty little girl can be called a diva.

It's used loosely and can apply to just about anyone. The term has been so overused that it doesn't have any impact anymore as far as I'm concerned. Whatever the hell it's original definition was, I'm sure hardly applies any more.

TIS

"RIP". When someone dies and someone will say, "I didn't know that person, but RIP". If you didnt' know him/her how do you know they should Rest in Peace? Maybe they should burn in hell.

Well, we could start putting BIH to those we feel should.


TIS

I hate that fake sympathy crap, too. Why bother? You didn't know them, what do you care? It's like when a celebrity dies, and you see people building shrines and crying. WTF? It's not like a member of your family or your best friend died. Do you think Princess Di would have been crying if she found out YOU died??