‘big time’
As in “it’s messed up, big time”, “the boss is going to go nuts, big time”
Also; “That’s what I mean”, when in fact you have not said anything at all previously, for example:
Me: <walking in the door> Bloody weather
Coworker: That’s what I mean, always raining
“My bad.”
I hate this phrase. It doesn’t MAKE SENSE!!! Stop using it now, or thre’ll be no dessert for you, young man/woman!
This is not trendy! Your grandpa probably said this! Hell, your great-grandpa!
and it’s “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” otherwise it doesn’t scan.
I have never heard anyone say “hella.” Therefore I decree that it’s not trendy either. Although I’m certainly happy with people not saying it.
“Totally”! I, like, totally despise the way this word is used now. 
I even heard a frickin’ televison news reporter actually say, “Like we totally told you about earlier, the ice storm has begun to make driving here in the metro extremely hazardous.”
Oh, yeah…another biggie: “Executive-produced by…” This pisses me off even more than totally. In fact, it almost totally pisses me off! People who wouldn’t dream of complaining about/praising the way Bush is ‘Presidenting’ the country don’t think twice about saying a movie was ‘Executive-produced by’ so-and-so. WTF?
Oh, yeah…I kinda like ‘hella.’ Reminds me of Eric Cartman.
Back in the day.
That one gets on my nerves especially because people often aren’t even talking about the good old days when they use it. “Back in the day the company used to order the photocopy paper from another different company but I forget what they were called.” When people say things like that I figure they picked it up watching reality tv.
“Baby bump” also bothers me. Every time a famous female gets the least bit bloated I see a photo of her in the grocery store line with a big arrow saying “baby bump???” They do it to Angelina Jolie all the time. I always figure she just got off a plane from some place where she didn’t get to take a proper dump for 3 weeks and imagine an arrow pointing to her lower abdomen that says “impacted???”
Ha! I read that one here too, and immediately wished it were my invention. I think I did, however, invent the ADD version. People with ADD often have boundary diffusion issues, it never occurs to them to think INSIDE the box, so the ADD version is, “There was a BOX??”
“Hey, I’m just sayin’!”, used after making an inappropriate or tactless comment, is at the top of my list of hated phrases. What a useless follow up. You’re not apologizing for, or defending, or further explaining your comment – you’re just sayin’!
What I especially like is that it basically excuses any form of racist behaviour from being denounced, as any such denunciation is, by definition, playing the race card.
One that drives me bananas: “…or, as I like to call it…” It means, LOOK LOOK LOOK I’M BEING CLEVER LOOK LOOK LOOK and usually presages that whatever the name is, it isn’t a tenth as clever as the person thinks.
Twenty four seven
I hate people who use this to imply how busy they are. I bet they’re not working 168 hours straight!
This is one of my favorite expressions. I take it to mean, “I agree with you so completely and utterly that I can in no way add to your statement to make it closer to my truth.” I do use this. I think I’ve already used it on the SDMB at least once.
Regarding 'Mibad?
As I understand it, ‘‘bad’’ is meant as an adjective, not a noun. It’s short for, “Am I bad?” Which is a playful way of saying, “I made a mistake, please don’t hate me for it.” I don’t mind hearing it occasionally but it does get excessive.
My least favorite expression at the moment is “step it up.” I am also not fond of “take it to the next level.”
Pretty much any expression will get nauseating if you hear it too often.
I saw it for years as “me bad”, an attempt to simulate toddler-talk. “I’ve been bad,” said with that downcast look and absolutely no repentance… what, the kids you babysat didn’t do that?
At the end of the day, I really hate when people say “word” when what they really mean is “right on” like we used to say back in the day.
What I really hate is baseball announcers and their endless use of “If he hits,----”, or “If he slides,----”, of if he “does this or that,—” after the action in question has already taken place. “If he hits to short center field, he’s on first,” when they should say, “Had he hit the ball to short center field, he would now be on first base rather than being out on a fly ball.” It irks me, that’s all. I do understand that the majority of fans would have no idea of what the announcer was talking about.
Didn’t “word” used to be “word up?”
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I wish this were mine, but it’s from some other thread. Someone was frequently praised in meetings for thinking outside of the box, and he said something like, “That’s because you won’t give us enough money to buy a box!”
Maybe you could come up with a variation that would work for you.
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Thanks! I’ve got to remember that and use it the next time one of my cow-orkers comes up with the box thing. Inevitably, someone’s going to say it at the next meeting and a quip like that might go over a lot better than my banshee-scream idea. 
Maybe, “Stop with the box, I’m claustrophobic!”
Okay. I’ll just use the not-enough-money-for-a-box concept. Maybe, with a little luck on the right day, they’ll all get it. :rolleyes:
Stat!
A phrase that needs to bugger off as soon as it is reasonably possible for it to do so, and it need not hang around to close the door on its way out.
A horrible phrase that for several years confused the hell out of people who did not watch medical TV shows.
The correct response to someone demanding something Stat, if we are going to be all latin about it, is Perite
cheers
nbc
“That’s SO not [insert adjective here].”
Nah. “Bad” = “error, mistake, fault”; an adjective being used as a noun.
So “My bad” is a truncated version of “[sorry, that was] my [error]”.
I first heard it 15 years ago or so, coaching little leaguers. A player would apologize to another for throwing a ball over his head by saying “my bad”.
referring to the word fuck as the f-bomb is pretty annoying.
I’m getting a little tired of commercials that start with the phrase “Life needs…”.