Simpsons reference.
Fat Tony (the mafia guy): I don’t get mad… I get stabby.
I agree with many here, too many to name. I’ll add “noone” when you mean “no one.” Awful. Makes me think less of the person writing.
Alright, not really an idiom, but we kind of veered off anyway… I hope.
I don’t have anywhere to bitch about this at the moment, so I’ll throw it out there. I know you guys will understand my pedantism.
Yesterday our admin came to me three separate times with stupid piddly-ass shit that she doesn’t know how to do. Like find a calendar for December 2012! Whatever - I showed her. (See this here internet thingie? It’s magic!) I did her three “favors” yesterday.
She needed it so that she could create a recurring meeting for the year, and needed the final date. Then she titled the meeting “SPS Designer’s Meeting.” I will have to see this for a year! We have already had it this way for most of the current year.
It bugs me! So I asked her very nicely if she could do me a favor, and correct the title by removing the apostrophe. “Oh, no,” she says. “I’m not gonna worry about THAT.” I whined a little more, and she refused.
Arrggh. She doesn’t even get why it’s wrong.
Please don’t let Gaudere’s law bite me in the ass.
Do the Actualers bug anyone else? An Actualer is someone who actually never seems to actually get through an actual sentence without actually saying actually or actual a few times more than actually necessary.
“Passed” for died. I don’t know why, since passed away doesn’t bother me, but this drives me nuts.
“Yes, my father passed 4 years ago”. Passed what? A kidney stone? A convenience store?
Okay, I’m tired or something, but when he got to the part about, “but if I already have the fish here, and I have caught them, why do I need to shoot them”…
Ouch…
“are these salt wat fish? are these fresh wat fish”??
Cute! But then, I’m a sucker for a “foreign” accent.
See now, I say that when I’m about to say something honest, but potentially unpleasant. Something I’d rather not discuss or possibly hurt someone’s feeling with, but that does need to be said. I guess it’s sort of a “darn, this might sting a little” preface.
When I hear other people use it, that’s the way in which they’re meaning that particular saying as well.
“comfortable in his/her/my own skin”
as opposed to being more comfortable in someone else’s skin? or being more comfortable when I slip out of my own skin and hang it up on a peg for a while? or maybe my skin doesn’t fit properly or has a woolly texture that irritates my subcutaneous tissues, making me uncomfortable in my own skin… what the heck?
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Then she titled the meeting “SPS Designer’s Meeting.” I will have to see this for a year! We have already had it this way for most of the current year.
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It makes sense to me; there’s one SPS designer, who is having a meeting with other stakeholders in the SPS design process…
I have a coworker who inserts the phrase “and let me be perfectly frank with you, and I do mean this” at least once in each conversation. Often, three or four times per discussion.
“on the ground,” as in, “how do things look on the ground?” My sense is that the phrase bled into non-military usage after military officials, politicians and news organizations used it over and over and over and over and over and over… after the US invaded Iraq. Now you hear it any time some stupid news anchor wants to sound more important - “we hear the fourth graders are mounting Silly Sting demonstrations in the playground, Mary-Jo. How does it look on the ground? Is there any violence?”
Using the word “hats” and “caps” in a business setting. I’ve heard managers say, “Put on your Sherlock Holmes hat,” or “Put on your thinking cap.” That’s fine if you’re talking to a first grader, but it has no place in an adult setting.
‘Haters.’ I can barely even type it without making a face like a cat smelling something disgusting.
No one can say ‘haters’ without sounding like some whiny mindless idiot off the vilest kind of ‘talk’ show. It doesn’t even *mean *anything. It just means ‘I don’t like what people are saying, but I have no way to refute it.’
Hater = a name one calls those who object to one’s stupidity or bad behaviour. 
I give you “the Alot,” courtesy of Hyperbole and a Half.
Mine is “don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
Fine, then I’ll hate both, instead. Also, don’t tell me what to hate.
You’re bugged by noone, but all right with alright? :dubious:
Are these cousins to the Basicers? Who basically can’t basically say anything without basically pointing out that they’re basically saying something?
No, it’s a gathering, by the Design Manager, that all the designers are to attend.
Similarly, “hatin’” really gets under my skin. Even used ironically, “Don’t be hatin’” is a sentence I’d love to see whiped from the earth.
I enjoyed that Alot.
Try the fish.