What other monosyllabic uttering do you suggest for pizza?
I would kill for a slice of P!
Piz is the Shizz!
I’d die for some pi right now!
“'Za” conveys what you want with minimal ambiguity. I still hate 'za a little bit, even though I use it.
“I rescued <insert pet name>”
You rescued? You ran into a burning building? You swam in a raging flood? You rescued?
No, you got a free pet, which is cool, because… free pet!
You adopted a pet.
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FWIW, adopted pets aren’t free. Mine were $250 and $50. If you rescue a dog from the streets yourself, though, it is free. And rescued from a life of living on the streets.
I know this seems to be a novel concept but it just might work. Say the whole damn word!! Pizza! What’s so hard about that?
I have no idea how old it is but “at the end of the day” is really over-used. Well, it’s really over-used on reality shows.
I was watching a lot of Jersey Shore and The Real Housewives shows a few years ago and the people were constantly using this phrase.
It’s just as grating as, and somehow fits in with, “Just my two cents” and “Just asking questions.”
“Amazeballs” drives me kind of nuts, but I occasionally use it in an ironic oldster sort of way.
“whomp whomp” (the vocalization of the cartoony trumpet muffle sound effect) has been going around everywhere lately, drives me nuts. I think it was popularized with Archer.
It’s died down somewhat, I’m glad to say, but “ginormous” was among the most idiotic things an adult could say.
It’s fine for a four-year old, because it sounds a lot like “eleventy bazillion” or something stupid. But adults who say “ginormous” should own a tuxedo rental store.
(How many tuxedo rental stores are there now? If these people owned one, they’d go bankrupt, which is what they deserve.)
Nah bruh, pizza hard, too long, za is for good.
This is why you are a bad person, but that’s just my two nuts.
Could this have evolved from wretched? The people I know who use ratchet have no knowledge of the mechanism or the tool named after it.
An expression that seems to have gained a lot of currency over the past few years is “ramming it down our throats”.
I actually think it works well to describe figuratively force-feeding someone something undesirable, but I find it grating because it seems to be so over-used in political rhetoric, and usually in the most ridiculous way.
What etymology there is for ratchet suggests that it sprang from the dance.
Definitely not wretched. It’s interesting that you assume people who use ratchet to mean a hot mess or a trashy lifestyle wouldn’t be familiar with the ratchet tool but would be familiar with the, let’s be real here, quaint at best word wretched.
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Thanks. Please don’t tell my daughter I screwed up her name.
Yeppers…that, plus an onion check.
Oh, Brilliant!
Thanks ever so much for reminding me of this abomination beyond all abominations. Of course, I’m referring to “Brilliant”. You thought maybe I was being an idiot beyond all bounds?
No. I’m not that “brilliant”.
Oh wait. I just used it like an idiot. Ummm … can I get a warning for calling myself an “idiot”?
Oh, Brilliant! Or maybe … “not so brilliant”.
Der.
“Bae”, as used by the 13yo set in S. Texas, is an acronym, meaning “Before All Else” or “Before Anyone Else”. I learned this while escorting my daughter and her 13yo friends to Age of Ultron, where they promptly started ranking the Avengers according to their BAE-ness.
ETA: I see that like 94% of the respondents have pointed that out, however, my scientific listing of the Avengers according to their BAE-ness should still be promoted. 
I like “I know, right?” My daughter says it in such a way that it just drips in sarcasm.
If I could ban one word from the English language, it would be shudder “selfie.”
Every time someone says that I think of the movie Clue.
WADSWORTH: “To make a long story short”
EVERYONE ELSE: “Too late!”
Could this be just possible: a verbal corruption of “rat shit / ratshit”? I’ve come across (in writing) the expression “it’s all gone to ratshit”, signifying that something has degenerated and deteriorated to a horrific degree.
A handle for a socket wrench, right?