# Phrases we could do without.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-we-could-do-without/3718>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 29, 1999, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-we-could-do-without/3718 "1999-12-29T20:24:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-we-could-do-without/3718/61 "2000-01-06T23:39:00Z")

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WallyM7 said:

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> “Thinking outside the box.”

I agree that it’s trite- everyone thinks outside the box. Except for fetuses.

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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-we-could-do-without/3718/62 "2000-01-07T05:11:00Z")

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I’m sick of “Even Sven, you are a Goddess” and “Even Sven, can I give you free money?”. It was cute the first time, but every day from every one, it gets kind of annoying.

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**Author:** ![smilingjaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@smilingjaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingjaws)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-we-could-do-without/3718/63 "2000-01-10T19:02:00Z")

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Bond, schmond. You LOVE your children, you don’t bond with them. You make friends with people, you don’t BOND with them! Unless of course you both roll in super-glue and then embrace!

ANY fool who uses y’all to address only one person. Y’all is plural. If you’re not Southern, don’t assume you can fake it!

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**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-we-could-do-without/3718/64 "2000-01-10T19:39:00Z")

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“duh” I hate the worst

you know…when it comes at the end of a sentence…like I don’t know.

Get Real

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“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda

_You wanna know something about me…ask me…not my friends…_

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-we-could-do-without/3718/65 "2000-01-10T20:03:00Z")

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Similar to “like” people who use “go” to mean “say”:

“So I go, Do you want to go? And she goes, I don’t know, are you going? And I go, Maybe; and she goes, Yeah, maybe . . .”

I would commit grievous bodily injury on these people, but they all seem to be fourteen-year-old girls.

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Jodi

_Fiat Justitia_

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