# Oft-used phrases/sayings you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758 "2002-12-30T22:07:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/41 "2002-12-31T17:20:15Z")
“ **A certain jenesaisquoi** ” is oxymoronic; jenesaisquois are _ipso facto_ uncertain. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/42 "2002-12-31T19:21:49Z")
“It’s always in the last place you look!!” Well, yeah. Typically, after I find something, I stop looking… ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/43 "2002-12-31T21:04:40Z")
“Get a life” ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/44 "2002-12-31T23:08:25Z")
“I’m rubber, you’re glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you.” Goddamn board meetings anyway. ---
**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/45 "2003-01-01T00:52:18Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by TVeblen_ > “Rode wet and put away dry.” Hey, **Veb** , next time you hear that one, expose him for the poseur he is: “Uh, you mean rode _hard_ and put away _wet_.” Take it from the Wyoming Guy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/46 "2003-01-01T02:34:41Z")
“Chill out” ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/47 "2003-01-01T03:25:09Z")
I’m bothered by the misuse of “hopefully,” as in “Hopefully it won’t rain tomorrow.” ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/48 "2003-01-01T04:30:05Z")
\*\* Weapons of Mass Destruction \*\* ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/49 "2003-01-01T04:54:48Z")
Expect the unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b2d939/32.png) [@\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/50 "2003-01-01T05:06:12Z")
**When push comes to shove** isn’t that the same thing? **All that and a bag of chips** ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/51 "2003-01-01T05:24:54Z")
The one that really annoys me is: “I’m outty!” meaning that the person who says this is leaving. My little brother heard it on the show _Lizzie McGuire_ on the Disney Channel, and now he uses it…ahhhhhhhh ---
**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758/52 "2003-01-02T01:17:54Z")
“Cheer up, it might never happen” Why do they think I look so miserable in the first place? It’s already happened! Just now! _Twice!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oft-used-phrases-sayings-you-hate/145758.md?page=2)