# Phrases/sayings you hate/like **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225 "2008-05-06T00:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/81 "2008-05-09T04:21:32Z")
Ugh I found another one, my old friend and his friends (that I only know online from playing Warcraft 3) seem to use “legit” to say “cool.” I suppose it’s marginally better than “tight” but not by much, and my few-hour playing sessions with often leave me wanting to strangle the next person I see (though sometimes it’s for other reasons, a single one of them, I think only an online acquainance of theirs has decided it’s funny to drop the word “nigger” anywhere it could concievably fit, and add a racist joke around it when it won’t). ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/82 "2008-05-09T04:26:53Z")
[QUOTE=wheresgeorge04] The next time I get a note from my boss saying that “This thing needs fixed and the other thing needs cleaned,” instead of “This thing needs **to be** fixed and the other thing needs **to be** cleaned,” I’m gonna snap… Joe [/QUOTE] Yes. Yes! And YES! I cannot get some people I know to stop that! It makes me NUTS. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/83 "2008-05-09T13:01:48Z")
Hearing one person say to another “I hate to burst your bubble…” makes me want to punch someone in the head. It’s _so_ patronizing and demeaning, and furthermore, anyone saying it doesn’t hate it, they’re rolling in it like a dog in a dead seal. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/84 "2008-05-09T13:05:44Z")
[QUOTE=kenobi 65] Also, “That’s how I roll.” Totally done to death. [/QUOTE] Our office lady just quit a few weeks ago. I thought [this was the perfect card](http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10285048) for the occasion. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/85 "2008-05-09T16:30:58Z")
I really like “The shoemakers’ children go barefoot” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/86 "2008-05-09T18:02:00Z")
I really like Tom McCahill’s “dark as the inside of a moose.” ---
**Author:** ![Bi-Polar\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@Bi-Polar\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bi-Polar_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/87 "2008-05-09T22:35:28Z")
I hate hate hate that moronic story about " why the wife cuts the end off the ham before cooking." I also hate it when the boss goes into the " we’re a team here, and everyone works together to get the job done (or variations of the same brainless speech). ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/88 "2008-05-10T18:58:47Z")
Hate it when people write " should of" when they mean “should’ve”. And “every so often” when they mean “ever so often”. There’s no such thing as a “so often” so you can’t have an “every” one. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/89 "2008-05-10T19:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=jimpatro] Hate it when people write " should of" when they mean “should’ve”. And “every so often” when they mean “ever so often”. There’s no such thing as a “so often” so you can’t have an “every” one. [/QUOTE] Hmm… I do say “every so often”–I always took it to mean something like “he’s so (gesture with hand) tall”, “the snake was about so (gesture with hands apart) long”, the fireworks will go off in thirty minutes, then every so often after that (at a regular but fairly short frequency). This message board has an endless ability to make me feel like a complete idiot, every so often. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/90 "2008-05-10T20:10:23Z")
One favorite of mine is,“Here I sit completely surrounded by no\_\_\_.” The original word was _beer_– spoken by **Onslow** in **Keeping up Appearances**. I use this phrase often. I,too, hate “prioritize” and “incentivize” ( also hate the related “incented”). Every time I’m forced to watch a Donald Trump promo, I utter the line, “The APE, Prentice. Aka Donald Trump (sometimes deliberately malapropped as T.Ronald Dump).” ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/91 "2008-05-11T02:41:05Z")
Carbon Footprint which seems to thrown into just about any conversation about anything to show that the speaker is trendy and a really caring person. Young People ! They’re older children for gods sake,stop trying to intimate that they’re really adult in maturity but just have to grow some more physically. Job seekers,some may be a,lot are happily unemployed and living on welfare in the U.K. Little Miss…for any girl child appearing in a newspaper headline. Gentle Giant … any big bloke in a headline who has been attacked whether he’s a viscious bastard or a saint. Pressurise…when they aren’t actually talking about filling a closed container with gas but really mean Pressured. But the one that really makes me livid! Same difference …used by people in a fake jokey tone,who are too insecure to admit to being wrong after you’ve just pointed out that they’ve said something totally and utterly incorrect eg. Astrology instead of Astronomy. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/92 "2008-05-11T03:02:34Z")
See, now I grew up hearing; “If wishes were fishes we could walk on the ocean.” I’m with you on the hate for; “I’d hit that”, how horrid. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/93 "2008-05-11T06:37:18Z")
[QUOTE=NajaNivea] Hmm… I do say “every so often”–I always took it to mean something like “he’s so (gesture with hand) tall”, “the snake was about so (gesture with hands apart) long”, the fireworks will go off in thirty minutes, then every so often after that (at a regular but fairly short frequency). This message board has an endless ability to make me feel like a complete idiot, every so often. 😉 [/QUOTE] Disregard. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s “every so often”, for the reason you stated. It’s like “every 5 minutes” or “every hour”. If there’s no such thing as “so often”, is there such thing as “so long” or “so heavy”? Also, it’s “There but **by** the grace of God go I” meaning “I do it only because God gives me the strength to.” I don’t know how that implies that the other person does not, or anything other than weakness, for that matter. Anecdotally, Pittsburgh has an h on the end, and it’s important too. It’s a tiny pride thing that we’re the only (I think) “burg” to have an h on the end…you know, like a freckle. Some doper’s location is “Da Burgh”, a common nickname highlighting the H. Hate: “Real” instead of “really” I answer “It’s real good.” with “Well it’s better than fake good.” Also, “Excuses are like assholes. Everyone has one and they all stink.” Gross, not clever! Like: “In truth lies victory”, from the Military Intelligence Creed. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/94 "2008-05-11T14:05:01Z")
One more I meant to put in the original post. I’m going off to “Find Myself”. Which seems to be said by people who have apparently never had the moral courage during their lifetimes to be honest with themselves about their personal thoughts or motivations or had the nerve to do anything in the slightest bit unconventional or risky. It just sounds so bloody pretentious, “No I’m not boring,unimaginative and scared of taking chances Quite the opposite in fact as after a boring wasted lifetime I have to make a great performance of going off somewhere to investigate the subtle depths of my Psyche” And be congratulated by everyone that they know on their imagination and daring. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/95 "2008-05-11T15:21:37Z")
Somebody mentioned “It’s all good” bugs the crap out of me. I guess it’s supposed to mean “don’t worry it’s no big deal” but I hear people use it in other ways , such as to excuse some bonehead move or attitude of theirs. In that case, no, it’s not \*\*all good \*\* and the proper phrase is “My mistake, I apologize” I’m a long way from a prude and enjoy dark and sometimes crude humor but for some reason the phrase “_On the Rag_” when someone is in a bad mood really bugs me. Usually said about women it annoys me more when one woman says it about another. I can’t understand the need to pick up catch phrases to seem cool or hip. It doesn’t work unless you’re 11 to 17 years old. I had a 30ish white guy say “Ya feel me?” the other day. "Why no I don’t and I’d rather not. If you’re asking if I understand you then the answer is yes. Slight differences, while “ **I hear ya** ” seems okay to me as a substitute for I understand and agree, “_I heard that_” bugs me a bit. If they use _dat_ instead of _that_ it’s even worse. An old phrase I rarely hear except in exaggerated jest “Slicker than snot on a marble” ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/96 "2008-05-11T16:38:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Young People ! They’re older children for gods sake,stop trying to intimate that they’re really adult in maturity but just have to grow some more physically. Similarly, I hate “little ones.” ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/97 "2008-05-11T17:27:04Z")
[QUOTE=IntelSoldier] Disregard. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s “every so often”, for the reason you stated. It’s like “every 5 minutes” or “every hour”. If there’s no such thing as “so often”, is there such thing as “so long” or “so heavy”? Also, it’s “There but **by** the grace of God go I” meaning “I do it only because God gives me the strength to.” I don’t know how that implies that the other person does not, or anything other than weakness, for that matter. [/QUOTE] Vindication is mine, every so often! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/98 "2008-05-11T17:28:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Disregard. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s “every so often”, for the reason you stated. It’s like “every 5 minutes” or “every hour”. If there’s no such thing as “so often”, is there such thing as “so long” or “so heavy”? Is there such a thing as _a_ “so long” or _a_ “so heavy”. Nope. Sure you can say " he falls down _so often_". Not the same as "he falls down every so often. No such thing as _a_ “so often”. This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/99 "2008-05-11T19:53:33Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard the construction used, rarely, in other contexts. Maybe something like “space the stepping stones every so many feet” with a general idea of how far apart that is to refer to. The difference between “he falls down so often” and “he falls down every so often” to me, is consistency. The first guy is just clumsy and falls down a lot. The second guy has something that’s causing him to fall down in a regular, timed frequency, as though he stumbles every ten steps or every five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225/100 "2008-05-11T19:59:48Z")
Damn, missed window. It seems to me that in this phrase, “every” indicates a specific interval while “so often” indicates an approximate amount of time. It would be another way to say “he falls down once each five minutes” except you don’t know for sure that it’s exactly five minutes. So, he falls down every so often, every five minutes or so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-sayings-you-hate-like/448225.md?page=6)