It's not a phrase, but I'm really tired of the word "surreal." Does it mean anything? At one time, it was a useful word for dealing with the strange art of Salvador Dali, but that was a long time ago.

I once heard a woman describe the kid who zipped around on a motorcycle in the movie "Local Hero" as surreal. All I could think of in reply was "Ummm."

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It's dying out, fortunately, but I always disliked it when people used "anal" to mean "precise or perfectionistic." It was another way people had of arming themselves with the jargon of psychology when they were not qualified psychologists. Other examples:

paranoid = more nervous than I am
narcissistic = cares more about clothing and appearance than I do
nymphomaniac = has more sex than I do
over-emotional = makes me tense