# Most hated idioms **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875 "2011-10-07T07:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/41 "2011-10-08T01:43:47Z")
“Eat shit and die!” If you’re like me, you get tired of people saying this to you all the time. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/42 "2011-10-08T02:06:26Z")
“-tastic” other than fantastic. “It is what it is.” “It’s all good.” and Ken Harrelson’s “He gone!” ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/43 "2011-10-08T02:22:14Z")
Actually, I just heard the one that makes my skin crawl. “ISH” It’s not a sentence on its own and you can’t turn every word into an adjective. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/44 "2011-10-08T04:20:24Z")
I personally almost used the phrase “screw the pooch” earlier today. I kinda like it, it’s funny. “Touch base” is grating. Guesstimate gets on my nerves too. I can’t stand when people “could care less” but choose not to. “It’s always in the last place you look” is laughable. but the absolute worst of all is “ **Needless to say** ” Really? Needless to say? So you are admitting that whatever you are about to say or whatever it was you just said was a complete and utter waste of time? Fuck you! And yes, I use needless to say… but I recognize I am an idiot when I use it. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/45 "2011-10-08T11:23:18Z")
The phrase “Old people”. It is a generalisation that has no specific meaning - it is dependent on where you are in your life. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/46 "2011-10-08T11:42:48Z")
A few months ago Warren Buffet made “skin in the game” the overused phrase of the season. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/47 "2011-10-08T11:50:54Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > So how do you feel about “the ol’ ball ‘n’ chain”? I’m good with that one. I like it even. :0) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/48 "2011-10-08T11:54:26Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Man I guess I’ll have to really think outside the box as I haven’t gotten laid since I knocked up my old lady. I think I screwed the pooch when I hit that since she was on the other side of the aisle. > > Well six o one, half a dozen of the other, at the end of the day it is what it is and it’s all good right? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/49 "2011-10-08T15:01:47Z")
“…, it does,” but not like, “Hey, did that new add on work?” “Oh yeah, I guess it does.” No, it’s some weird sentence tag like, “It makes me happy, it does.” Are you Gollum? No? Then maybe you could rethink writing like you spent your life alone in a cave. I used writing instead of talking because I only ever see it here. See also: “…, that.” I’m not a fan of the word “grotty”, now that you mention it. It brings Beatlemania to mind, and I also hate the word “Beatlemania”. Somebody used the word “wojus” in a thread here recently, and seriously, fuck that guy with bullets. If you’re wondering, it’s Irish slang for “poor” or “crap”. Nothing wrong with those words or the sentiment, but there’s something wrong with getting me to google a word that could be replaced with “not good”. Of course, if you’re Irish and hanging out with all your Irish pals and they know what it means, that’s totally unwojus, because I won’t be hearing it, seeing how I’m not. Now that I’ve shared my prejudices, allow me to share how open-minded I can be: “Screw/screwed the pooch” is delightfully folksy, provided it comes out of my mouth. “It is what it is” is not my favorite phrase, but my boss uses it, so I file it under “meaningless things people say when they have to say something non-committal.” “I could care less” bothered me when I was 10. Now I see it as: “Theoretically, it is possible that I could care less, but it would require work to determine exactly how little I care, and the subject at hand isn’t worth the thinking about.” I still wouldn’t use it, but I’ve made my peace with that particular idiotism. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/50 "2011-10-08T15:19:08Z")
Raining cats and dogs. What sort of coincidental phenomena need to occur for this to actually happen? And the end result would be fairly gross. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/51 "2011-10-08T15:25:23Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Raining cats and dogs. Although I’ve used that phrase I never did get that… why cats and dogs? Then I looked up [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals). ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/52 "2011-10-08T15:25:56Z")
It is interesting to hear the “I know, right?” hate, because I have been noticing the hate online lately, but the actual phrase is old as hell. I mean, literally 25 years old. I have always heard and used it, so it is really weird to see fresh hate for it on line lately. I kind of like “It is what it is” because the phrase is so…layered. It really is a deep and meaningful quote if you think about it, so to hear it coming out of the mouths of nitwits is fun, in that they are waxing philisophical in a way they don’t really understand. It’s like hearing Plato drop from the lips of some slack jawed yokel. Fun. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/53 "2011-10-08T15:32:49Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > It is interesting to hear the “I know, right?” hate, because I have been noticing the hate online lately, but the actual phrase is old as hell. I mean, literally 25 years old. I have always heard and used it, so it is really weird to see fresh hate for it on line lately. It’s caught on a lot, in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/54 "2011-10-08T15:35:42Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Although I’ve used that phrase I never did get that… why cats and dogs? Then I looked up [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals). I enjoyed the other languages part at the end. Old ladies and sticks, pieces of dung head first, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/55 "2011-10-08T15:38:42Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Ken Harrelson’s “He gone!” Thank you for this one. He sounds so damn ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/56 "2011-10-08T15:38:49Z")
I’ve got one: methinks. I really only ever see it on this board, and it always sets my teeth on edge … just pretentious, twee, and awful. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/57 "2011-10-08T15:48:13Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > I’ve got one: methinks. I really only ever see it on this board, and it always sets my teeth on edge … just pretentious, twee, and awful. Salute. So much twee… although I hate that word and will never use it again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/58 "2011-10-08T15:59:42Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > " **That being said…" usually followed by something completely contradictary to what they just said.** > “Kick Rocks” - favorite saying of that clown Kasey on Bachelor Pad. (bolding mine) 😕 I’m not a native english speaker but isn’t that what that expression is for? ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/59 "2011-10-08T16:00:57Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Thank you for this one. He sounds so damn ignorant. and “The good guys”… ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875/60 "2011-10-08T16:04:28Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Salute. So much twee… although I hate that word and will never use it again. I think “MeThinks” is cute but I guess that depends on who, what, when, where. How about “Moi”? I use it once in a blue moon but I have mixed feeling about the use in English. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-idioms/598875.md?page=4)