Doesn’t necessarily have to be slang (Goat forbid, then, that they’ve entered our lexicon!)
proactive
is it what it is
empowerment
self-starter
bromance
run it up the flagpole
vacay
staycation
bae
feels like there’s a trillion others on the tip of my tongue
meme
just meme.
Biggs and smalls. (Basketball).
pretty much any “click-bait” headline. you know, things like:
Iconic.
Run it up the flagpole is trendy!?
Try this one simple trick…
Using share instead of tell.
Using feel instead of think.
Using impact because you don’t know the difference between effect and affect.
The phrase “needs to go away”. No one should use it, ever.
All fine choices. <beat> But at the end of the day…
“Pivot”. Refers to startups realizing that their existence is predicated on nonsense and changing their focus to something else.
“Scrum”, “sprint”, “agile” and other jargon related to the trendy development style de jure.
Even though it has a use, I hate BOGO!
I’d say it’s definitely a commonly-enough used phrase.
Sadly.
good ones - or I guess I should say incredibly annoying ones.
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I think we finally got synergize and paradigm out of the workplace, but they’ve been replaced with ‘pain point’ and ‘low hanging fruit’ and ‘ladder up’. Bleccch.
meme, trope, and curate
“Optics” gets overused by talking heads and political pundits on TV.
I know it was in the OP, but ‘bae’ actually makes me want to hurt things.
Bwahahaha needs to die.
“For the win”. I loathe that twenty something standby. FTW will always mean fuck the world.
Frenemy
YOLO
Deflategate