# Trendy Expressions That Need to Die! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469 "2007-01-18T17:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/1 "2007-01-18T17:19:54Z")
What sayings or expressions are you hearing too often recently that deserve to die in 2007? Right now, at the top of my list: \*It is what it is. \* :dubious: Makes me foam at the mouth. Yours? ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/2 "2007-01-18T17:21:52Z")
Oh, and: _I’m all about…_ (Making a list now) ---
**Author:** ![Renob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@Renob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renob)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/3 "2007-01-18T17:24:39Z")
[QUOTE=wonderlust] Right now, at the top of my list: \*It is what it is. \* :dubious: [/QUOTE] How is that trendy? I’ve been saying that for years. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/4 "2007-01-18T17:32:44Z")
Yes, but at the end of the day… ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/5 "2007-01-18T17:34:38Z")
_My bad_ Gah! Hate, loath and despise this expression. Are people so lazy they can’t be bothered with the extra syllables for “I’m sorry”? _'Sup my bitch._ This phrase is rude. As a woman, I don’t appreciate the connotations. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/6 "2007-01-18T17:34:43Z")
_“Drop the F-bomb”_ irks the fuck out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/7 "2007-01-18T17:52:30Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] _My bad_ Gah! Hate, loath and despise this expression. Are people so lazy they can’t be bothered with the extra syllables for “I’m sorry”? _'Sup my bitch._ This phrase is rude. As a woman, I don’t appreciate the connotations. [/QUOTE] Number one, I despise. Where did it come from? I first read it here and now I hear it ! Number 2, I’ve never heard. Thankfully. You know what really bugs me, now that I think of it. “Hi there!” Usually uttered in a singing-type voice by 20-something female store clerks intent on serving me. Why “there?” Why not a simple, “hi,” “hello,” etc. No. It’s always (singing) “hi there.” ---
**Author:** ![Lush\_Puppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Lush\_Puppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lush_Puppy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/8 "2007-01-18T18:08:09Z")
Phrases with “hella” as in: “That’s hella messed up!” “That guy was hella rude!” ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/9 "2007-01-18T18:09:51Z")
I posted this to an earlier thread, but it bears repeating: “On the ground” and especially “the reality on the ground” need to die swiftly. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/10 "2007-01-18T18:20:28Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Number 2, I’ve never heard. Thankfully. [/QUOTE] A student in my lab greeted me with “'Sup my bitch.” My response, “I ought to ‘sup’ on your disrespectful tounge! I am NOT a female canine, nor am I your property. The proper greeting is ‘Hello, Ms. Maven.’ A major component of research is articulating your findings to others. If you can’t cope with standard speech, **leave now**.” Another term that can go away: _Props_ This falls into the same catagory as _My Bad_. Is there some sort of superstition that saying less will make you live longer? ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/11 "2007-01-18T18:30:30Z")
Count me in on the “It is what is it”, and I’ll add “At the end of the day, I’m over it.” Both are used by my upper management all the time. If my attitude about my job was really “At the end of the day, I’m over it”, I’d deserve the pink slip they gave me. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/12 "2007-01-18T18:45:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] Are people so lazy they can’t be bothered with the extra syllables for “I’m sorry”? [/QUOTE] I’ve never used “my bad” to mean “I’m sorry,” nor have I ever heard it used that way: to me, it means “that was my fault/mistake.” ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/13 "2007-01-18T18:55:38Z")
_It is what it is._ [QUOTE=Renob] How is that trendy? I’ve been saying that for years. [/QUOTE] I’ve been hearing it much more in 2006 than before, and I’m complaining about when it’s used as a cop-out for saying something of substance. Yes, there are zen moments when it’s appropriate, but I think it’s being used more frequently, inappropriately. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/14 "2007-01-18T19:01:24Z")
I absolutely cannot stand “No worries!” (used as an affirmative) for some reason. It spontaneously cropped out a few years ago, and now it seems like I can’t have any interaction with hipsters without it cropping up. It just makes me want to punch someone when I hear it. Another that’s really proliferated in the past year is white urban hipsters using the british slang “cheers.” Next person that does this to me gets a “Ferry down the mersey!” and a fat lip. Yeah, it sucks that we in the U.S. don’t have an analogue to the phrase, but that doesn’t mean that you’re not a douchebag if you use it. ---
**Author:** ![Renob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@Renob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renob)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/15 "2007-01-18T19:26:56Z")
[QUOTE=wonderlust] _It is what it is._ I’ve been hearing it much more in 2006 than before, [/QUOTE] Perhaps my influence is more pervasive than I thought. . . ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/16 "2007-01-18T19:51:22Z")
The one I hate? “It’s all good.” Oh shut up. Like you even _know_. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/17 "2007-01-18T20:04:32Z")
“Yeah, baby!” or “[sentence], baby!” I heard someone interject “baby!” on to the end of a sentence a week or so ago (totally forget where I was) and I remember this feeling of thinking I just went deaf or something. It made the person sound boorish, childish, unoriginal and annoying to me all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/18 "2007-01-18T20:08:00Z")
This isn’t a new trendy, but for some damn reason it is still here. \*\*“Word”/b] Hey dude. The early 90’s called. They want their “word” back. Of course, if it does go away I won’t be able to use my comeback. Me: “So I said ‘you need to back off this now’.” Them “Word!” Me: “Sentence. Dog.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/19 "2007-01-18T21:12:45Z")
I am sick of things having traction. You’d think there’s a SUV convention in DC, there’s so many things trying to get traction. Bleh. Give up your Buzzword of the Week email subscription. Now. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469/20 "2007-01-18T21:29:26Z")
I thought “hella,” “props,” and “my bad” went out in the 90s. I hardly ever hear them any more. Then again, I am 36, so maybe I’m not hanging out with the people who say them. I used to say “yadda yadda” until I became aware of its association with Seinfeld. I hate that show with a passion, and I don’t want anyone thinking that’s where I got it. I kinda miss it. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trendy-expressions-that-need-to-die/388469.md?page=2)