<shrug> Well, you can please some of the people some of the time…
**“Into harm’s way.”
“Good luck and Godspeed.”**
They both drip with the sort of romanticized faux-earnestness that makes so much modern public discourse so cringeworthy. Archaic and twee, they’re invariably delivered with an air of plummy pomposity that’s intended to demonstrate the profound gravitas of the speaker. In reality, they just make you sound like a tool.
“As our soldiers go into harm’s way, we say ‘good luck and Godspeed.’”
Ick. How much more honest to simply say:
“As our soldiers go into combat, we say ‘good luck, and may God watch over you.’”
‘We really need to leverage that resource.’
Dude, just say ‘Use the copier.’
“No problem.”
“I’m like…” or “I was like…” to mean “i said…” or “I thought…”
This? Construction needs to die.
Yeah, but at least you can be miserable in comfort.
[Brett Maverick] I been rich and I been poor and believe me, rich is better. [/Brett Maverick]
“…in any way, shape, or form.”
There is no reason, justification, or rationale for using three words that all mean the same thing where one will do perfectly well.
Yep, this one I hate. It’s a verbal botworm. I try to appreciate its irony when I hear it (there’s nothing more inside the box than using a tired cliche instead of coming up with your own words), but that doesn’t work.
Daniel
My office mate keeps saying to everyone she talks to 1,000,000 times a day:
“Okey Dokey Smokey”
Minor, but I may have to strangle her and hide the body.
For years of my youth and young adulthood, my father used to say to me in trying times:
“Do you want the right thing done, or do you want to be right”
Though good advice, it pissed me off. He finally stopped saying it, when I finally responded, with:
“I want both”
“…And remember everyone, give until it hurts”
I don’t know how bad the original problem was but now we have everyone in pain. That can’t be an improvement.
It’s emphasizing the point that [whatever] is not the case at all, remotely. Emphasis is a perfectly legitimate rhetorical device.
Oh, get with the program. That’s Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disorder.
When my cat thinks, and goes outside the box, I holler at him. Dagnabbit, cat! What is it wit chew?
I used to hear, “The devil hates a coward,” when I hesitated in playing Eucher. I never understood it. Why should I care what the devil hates?
“Is it ‘canonical’ Simpsons / Alien / Britney / &other ephemeral pop triva?”
::murderous rage::
The use of the word proverbial in a context like “it was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back”. It strikes me as pretentious.
“Reach out to”. Gah. Just call the guy.
It’s a tiny little peeve of mine. Not enough to keep me awake or spoil my day or anything of the ilk, but the phrase that gets me the most is one that’s used on these boards a lot when people are telling stories about thier friends but want them to remain anonymous.
The phrase “Let’s call him, x” or “We’ll call her x” for some reason it slightly irks me. If you feel the need to change names, do we really need to know? Is it important to the story what you christen them.
But then the enjoyment that I get from these boards far outweighs any tiny annoyances that I have with them. Y’all rock. Keep up the entertaining posts 
Anything. That. Has. A. Period. After. Each. Word.
Not really a saying so much as a “writing”, I suppose. I do see it more than enough on These Boards.
(Ha! I slipped in another saying I hate! Do you know what awful and mindlessly repeated saying “on These Boards” is a paraphrase of?)
"in These Rooms". It’s something you hear way too much of if you ever go to many AA meetings. But then again, AA is the world’s largest producer of Overused Sayings That Annoy Me.
Have a nice day.
“God works in mysterious ways”
When I worked jobs as a laborer in Florida over the summer:
“You’re fired before you hit the ground”
I say some stupid sayings frequently that probably annoy some of my friends:
“Hindsight is 20/20”
“A penny saved is a penny earned”