Whatnot
So to speak
If you will
…
Amazing!
Awesome!
Sphere of influence
Like, you know?
Not a big Jeff Gordon fan?
Needless to say…
then why the hell are you going to say it anyway?!?
quite literally
as in " I quite literally finish my shift in half an hour "
And I think, oh I am so glad you said literally there because if you just said “I finish my shift in half an hour” I would taken that to mean that you really have 9 hours left to do. NOT!!
At the end of the day…
I’m like, totally, y’know.
I also hate it when people use literally when they mean virtually, as in “I’m literally starving to death.” Umm, no, you’re not.
Um, basically, I um can’t stand it basically, when um, people overuse the work, um, basically.
You Know… NO I DON"T KNOW… if I DID I wouldn’t ASK!
So I was thinking…
Essentially drives me insane since two guys I work with both use this word to vomit-inducing levels.
In a nutshell and the bottom line have become increasingly irksome to me.
Where the rubber meets the road gives me visions of someone tossing a used condom out their car window and onto the street.
I’ll second basically as one of my pet-peeve words.
While whatnot doesn’t really bother me, what-have-you does. It just sounds so awkward when used in a sentence:
“The Smith’s are selling books, clothes, tools and what-have-you at their yard sale this weekend.”
“Are you busy now?” and “What’s on your plate today?”
Both are boss-speak for “Don’t plan on going home tonight - I’ve got a big project for you.”
Last week, I anwered the “plate” question with “leftover meatloaf and pasta salad.” I think her brain blew a small fuse. 
“Like”
Oh and any of those bloody PowerBusiness buzzphrases.
Be Here Now
“Think out of the box” or anything where the word “networking” ties in…
“Like, you know?”
Anything corporate used in a casual setting makes me want to hurl.
A lot of the people (drones) where I work say, “<b>Why don’t you go ahead</b> and do…” and it drives me up a wall.
Duh, my apologies. I was trying to bold some of the text in the previous post, but obviously failed. Plz pardon. :smack:
IRREGARDLESS
I know it’s a word - I looked it up on Merriam-Webster, but it’s soooo redundant!
“It’s like,”
“Um, well, um”
“You know,”
“Like, yeah”
“You know what I’m saying”
Aaaaaggghhhhh!!! I admit I don’t have perfect verbal habits, but some people just go WAY overboard. I went to my childbirth classes when I was pregnant with my first son exactly one time and one time only because the instructor was absolutely incapable of uttering a single sentence without including at least two of the above “crutches”. By the time I left, my palms were bloody from clenching my fists so tightly in tense simmering rage. Like, you know?
per se
smam and UES guy my cousin has to be physically restrained if someone near her says something along the lines of, “That movie was so good I was literally glued to my seat.”