Slate has some comments on “thrown under the bus”, along with several other favorite cliches.
Fucken GIFTING.
The verb is “give”. People use “gift” when they want to sound important/wanky/new age/etc and it shits me to tears.
Another one is “kitty” used seriously by anybody over about four. The word is CAT!
EDIT: Yeah, I know these aren’t “buzzwords” as such, but “perfect storm” and “Staycation” had been taken, and I needed to vent my righteous anger somehow. 
Yeah - and it makes my skin just crawl up the back of my neck, too.
24 x 7 x 365 is 168 years, not one year.
Correct would be 24 x 7 x 52 but it sounds wrong even if it’s more correct.
(even more accurate would be 24 x 7 x 52.17857 but that’s doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue)
“Ideation” really is a legitimate word, although in recent times it has been taken over by blithering ideates.
I agree with most of the ones here, but would like to single out paradigm and going forward for utter disdain.
My contributions are:
speak to, usually spoken as “Apocalypso will speak to this issue”. I am not speaking to an issue, I am speaking to you about a particular situation, problem, etc.
asshat, unlike most of the buzzwords listed so far, actually means something (a “clever” :rolleyes: way to say someone has their head up their ass), but it’s way too overused.
teh Ok, we get it. You’re hip and cool with your deliberate misspellings. Now do the rest of us a favor and stick your toungue in an electric socket.
“Speak to” is from parliamentary procedure; I happen to have my *Robert’s Rules * here because I was trying to look up something else (which I didn’t find).
but Apocalypso is right in that it is consistently misused, abused and confused. Ban it.
Worst. Just sayin’… (bolding mine)
Fucking Green!!
Don’t take my favorite color and apply it to anything that can be remotely construed as environmental. The worst is when it is applied to more economical issues:
“Don’t leave the water running when you shave! Don’t you want to be greeeen?”
“Don’t buy that gas-guzzling pickup truck! Can’t you see this plug-in sardine can is much greener?”
The there is ‘greening’. Everybody in my town from the grocer to the plumber is ‘greening their business’. At first I actually thought it was about making more money, but then I started wondering why they were advertising it. :rolleyes: I don’t want to help the environment, god damn it! I just want you to cut my hair! Preferably as cheaply as possible and without any heart-wrenching seminars on global warming.
Private Eye magazine has its own column devoted to sightings of “solutions”. Just where the hell did this solution-mania come from? You don’t have a frozen food aisle in the supermarket any more, you have Frozen Meal Solutions. Last week I passed a bus with the slogan “Flexible Coach Solutions” on the side. I’m glad I don’t work in the chemistry lab any more - I imagine the reagent suppliers have taken to advertising “High Quality Solvent Solutions” by now. 
Looks like everyone is on the same page in this thread…
I hate “solutions”, too, but that one seems to be dying out, at last. There was a time where every software company sold “solutions”, not programs.
My current bugbear is “Westminster village”, referring to the Palace of Westminster, that seems to be gaining traction amongst political commentators on TV.
Don’t use utilize, when plain old use will do.
The marketing of “Green” seems to be an attempt by business interests to give environmentalism the same level of respectability and success as the “War on Drugs”. The sooner it’s marketed and promoted, the sooner the public will tire of it and things can go back to the way the have always been. There was a “Green” promotion before the film last night, and it was so smug it made me want to club a baby seal. And I’m someone who recycles, using only compact florescent bulbs and takes public transit everywhere!
I agree with “Staycation.” I just saw that one the other day in my local newspaper and I wanted to hurt the person who came up with it. What a stupid word!
Also, “circle” or “circle the wagons,” as in, “Let’s circle on that and meet again next week to discuss ideas.” No…no, let’s not.
But the one I just want to shoot anyone who uses (fortunately it seems to have come and gone quickly), is “Push present”: the gift (more like bribe) that some women expect their husbands to give them after they’ve pushed out a baby. Ugh.
We have enough **"_______ Nation"**s too. Being a diverse group who like a certain ballclub or product does not make you a nation. Graduating from or attending the same University does not make you a nation, it makes you alumnae or students. Nor does the t-shirt make you any kind of nation.
I have an irrational amount of hatred for the term “man cave”.
I like the idea of everyone in a house having a space of his or her own; I just really, really hate when they call a guy’s room his “man cave”.
I agree on “gifting.” That drives me nuts. It’s giving! Along the same lines, “We’re going to be conferencing on that.” NO! You’ll be conferring. When you confer, you have a conference.
Current use of “leet” or “elite.” Being able to spell poorly and 5ub5titute numbers for letters (i.e. “leetspeak”) doesn’t make you part of an elite group. It makes you an idiot.
It’s much more motivational when his balls are in the fire and the irons are in the air (think Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum).
One of the best retorts ever came from a cartoon. I think it was Zits. The dad (an orthodontist) is trying to come up with a new slogan and wants to “think outside the box.” His teenager says, “Think outside the box? Dude, you are the box!”
There’s one that gets me. The use of “so” as a synonym for “very” or just inserted as filler or intensifier. It’s so cool. I’m so going to see that movie. It’s a comparative. Okay, pedants. Come and get me. Tell me that it’s common usage and people have been doing it for many decades. I don’t care. I still detest it.
My new pet phrase. I’m hobbling you for the hyenas if you don’t cut that out! He became a liability so we decided to hobble him for the hyenas. Yeah!
Nah. Some of us are still back on page 1
Gah! Makes Squiddy ANGRY!