You hear this on cop shows all the time, so I’ve kind of gotten used to it. But yesterday morning on NPR, someone referred to someone else as being “well lawyered.” That’s just going too dang far.
“Prayers sent”
So heartfelt. It’s like the condolence version of “yawn”
(Make a) “Joyful noise”
Blazé. Saw this word in an e-mail from this snot-faced editor of an online magazine, and it caused me to not reply to his e-mail for a week, which ultimately resulted in ending our collaboration.
Good riddance.
You mean blasé? That only annoys me when it’s used incorrectly.
It’s correct when it’s uses to describe someone’s attitude towards something.
That makes more sense than my understanding - I thought it was a metaphor that had something to do with trying to put the pin back in a grenade (ie, let’s stop this thing from happening right now). Which seemed odd to me, as trying to put the pin back in a life grenade (even one where you haven’t thrown it or let go of it, so the fuse hasn’t armed yet) is Not A Recommended Course Of Action.
Many of my personal hates have already been mentioned, including click-baity headlines of the “ [things] you didn’t know existed” (I’m willing to bet useful sums of money I was, in fact, aware of those things) variety, along with “Australia loves/hates/loses its collective shit over [thing]” headlines, because there’s 26 million people here and many - possibly most - of them (including me) don’t care about the [thing].
“Going Forward” drives me mental too; I prefer “In the future”, especially because it lets me sound like The Great Criswell or someone similar when I say it.
I’m also not a fan of “reaching out” You’re not ET. You can “get in touch with” or “ask” or “contact” someone.
I’ve always heard it used to shoot down an idea and stop discussion. Pop the balloon type pinning. Follows the “devil’s advocate” phase. Or used to disillusion someone, end their fantasy / hypothetical idea roughly and without debate.
How is it misused? I can only think of it in that context.
My bold.
This. Pinning something to a board as a reminder. As in pinning a thread (“sticky”) to the top/beginning of a forum so people don’t forget the admonitions contained therein.
A lot of people use it to mean that something or someone was boring or uninteresting rather than that someone was bored or uninterested.
I have also heard it used this way “blasé, blasé” instead of “blah, blah, blah.”
“Ramp up”? You mean “increase”, right?
Arguably
Unarguably
Artisan to describe anything other than something actually made by an artisan. “Artisan Bread” for example.
Except a suspect “lawyers up” when he/she requests or demands an attorney during questioning whether or not he/she has hired or retained one already, and it’s supposed to end questioning until (inherently before) the attorney shows up. “I want a lawyer” =/= “I’ve already hired an attorney.”
So “lawyer up” = “invoke one’s right to counsel” but easier/shorter to say, which is usually the reason why a new word or phrase is invented. 
IIRC “datalytics” hasn’t been mentioned.
Heard it for the first time today, on NPR, and almost rear-ended someone, then onto the sidewalk, taking out some recycling bins and end up vertically, stuck in a drainpipe ditch.
Analytics I’m only slightly getting inured to, hearing it out the freaking yin-yang in sports programming, especially hockey.
I understand what it means. But no suspect ever says, “I’m lawyering up.” He says, “I want my attorney,” or, “I want my lawyer.” Or perhaps just, “Lawyer.”
I still can’t stand “lawyer up.” I can’t stand the phrase, “change it up,” either.
“What happens next will make your jaw drop!”
“If I can do it, anyone can do it!”
I hate this for too many reasons.
No kidding. That’s right up there with “you can be ANYTHING you want!” and “it’s NEVER too late!”
Yeah, sometimes it IS too late, you know?
Maybe the speaker just couldn’t pronounce “dressed like an onion”!
Or maybe “battered and fried”?