Overused Phrases in 2021?

. . . and deeper in debt.

That is all that could be asked. It’s not the concept that’s objectionable, just that specific phrase.

English is a rich language, something evocative will evolve.

“No worries” is typically used as a reply to “thank you”. I have been working on responding to “thank you” with “you’re welcome”.

Worse than “easy peasy” is “easy peasy lemon squeezy”. I have a co-worker who says this daily.

My version: “easy peasy George and Wheezy”.

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“Holistic approach.” Gaaaah, quit trying to sound fancy. Just say “We’re trying something else.”

“We have been trying to get in touch with you about your car’s extended warrantee.”

I’ll nominate “normalcy”. I think the term has context in post-war history, and even if it has some relevance WRT the pandemic, it seems to be the catch-all, overused phrase for any ember of the pandemic easing - people are saying it thru their mask. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Should people be using “normality” instead?

Groovy with me. It’s the word I’d use.

I prefer “normality.”

It seems much more commonly used.

Been many years since I visited Oz, but I have heard “no worries” (twenty years ago) to mean:

  1. Don’t mention it//You are welcome.
  2. It’s no big deal./Apology accepted.
  3. Things are fine.

“… bad, bad, bad…” :laughing: :wink:

I would like to see that chart updated to include 2020 and 2021 (it appears to be thru 2019, prior to all the pandemic stuff). Nearly every newscast today someone says “normalcy”.

“Normalcy” is forever linked to Warren G. Harding, mitigated somewhat by the fact that nobody knows who Warren G. Harding was. Isolationism, women and Blacks have come far enough for their actual limitations, Big Business is good for everyone; basically 1920’s MAGA.

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Enough of “woke,” used 1000 times as a sneer for every one time anyone used it in sincerity. Just use “sanctimonious,” and trust your readership sees your point.

Enough of “problematic.” If you believe something is offensive to any reasonable person, just say so. “Problematic” lacks trust that the average person can be reasonable, and, unlike you, only read Foucault and Baudrillard in translation if at all.

I’m pretty weary of the phrase “I see you” in either the negative sense of “I have surmised your true intentions” or the positive sense of “your efforts have not gone unnoticed.”

Nothing lexically wrong with it. It’s just an affectation that’s starting to wear.

That made my day. Thanks mmm! :blush:

Hey…!!

I stole it from somewhere. Maybe “Community”?

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