The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93709   Message #2118492
Posted By: emjay
03-Aug-07 - 03:14 PM
Thread Name: what phrases do you hate?
Subject: RE: what phrases do you hate?
Damn. this is so much fun!

"Give it up for" when the crowd is supposed to applaud for someone.

How about someone saying such and such an athlete gives "110 percent." Where does he get that extra 10 percent and does anyone ever really give 100 percent?

And one that seems to have faded out now, when you want a little sympathy and someone says, "That sounds like a personal problem to me." Ok, so that's what it is.

And any statement that begins, "Thankfully," which I almost used to introduce the preceding paragraph. It is so easy to use some of these, even the ones I dislike the most.