Favourite (i.e. most hated) cliches!

[MrsThierryHenry]

From the sublime to the ridiculous.

Ah, yes food cliches can be very annoying.

What the hell is 'pan' fried anyway. How else do you fry something? On a chair? In a hat?

It isn't a cliche but the word "synergy"

Typifies wank, meaningless business speak.

Also "singing from the same hymn sheet".

gnaws fist with irritation

actually i think you will find if we're being honest that at the end of the day the most absolutely fawking annoying cliche that basically gets my goat is .. whatever.

er dont really have one

other than whenever i or anyone else says "when the wind blows" it really makes me smile, me and my dp just look at each other and laugh!

Ticks all the boxes
Singing from the same hymn sheet (again)
Get all our ducks in a line
Washes its own face

And all those other wanky biz-speak farking cliches.

Oh and everything everyone else has said already.

OMG the corporate-speak that some of my friends come out with - especially after a long day at work - "meet with" eeeuuurgh - a "heads-up" to mean a meeting/chat - wtf? - and my favourite is "silo thinking" - which seems to be a terrible insult - it means you just beaver away and get things done on your own, instead of spending every farking second liaising and having heads-ups and "sharing best practice" aaarrrgggh.

As freelancer I'm bloody proud to be a "silo thinker"

My DH said to me this morning: 'Go on then, off you scuttle'.

NNNNNNGGGGGGAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Tsar - re 'pan' fried! Yes! Yes! Yes!!! (thought I was the only pedant about that one)

I hate officey cliches

"A ball park figure"
"Successful cross-border teaming" (FGS only salmon teem and they teem rather than team)

My all time least favourtite is "With respect..." which means they think I am talking crap and have absolutely NO respect at all ! Gits !

"I turned around and said ..." NO YOU DIDNT - YOU WERE IN THE SAME SPOT!!

"We will have to agree to differ then" usually said with a patronising "cos I know I'm right" look on the face

"you're not fat you're cuddly" oh sorry - not a saying, just something someone said to me recently as though I would be blown away at the compliment. Feels better to get the angst of it out though

Shouldn't we, as pendants, be sifting this lot into what technically are clichés & what aren't & have been smuggled into the thread just to gratify a steam-release urge? Ahem?

I quite enjoy a business-jargon turn of phrase occasionally - "baked in", "big ask", even ducks-in-row - sometimes it's a useful sort of semaphore - gets at the essentials, & in a direct telegraphic way that connects straight to the business brain action-centre. (A bit like what "At EASE" does to a soldier.)

However.

Re magazine-speak: personal bugbear is someone described as "working" a "look".

Draw a line in the sand.

Step up to the plate

Basically

At the end of the day

yer know what I mean?

Ah - well you see - I am not a pendant !

To be honest ? rarely is
Car-parking ? in reference to questions at a meeting

The first time I heard that I really thought it meant something to do with vehicles being left in an inappropriate place...

From Bink 'Shouldn't we, as pendants, be sifting this lot into what technically are clichés & what aren't & have been smuggled into the thread just to gratify a steam-release urge? Ahem?'

Ooh quite right Bink. Will a list need to be made ? Licks pencil/adjusts clipboard.

Oh no Bink - "big ask"! That's one of the worst! makes me want to throw a brick through the telly when I see it on the sports news - has it caught on in RL?

This thread is making me feel quite queasy actually. OMG 'Big ask'. Nooo!

There seems to be a rather worrying trend for 'laters' (instead of 'see you later') which is the current bit of verbal silver foil on my fillings.

To be honest/to be fair/to be frank etc. I don't see why your intentions cannot be left unspoken or your honesty/fairness implicit in your utterances.

I agree with the usual 'end of the day', 'on the same page' ones. It seems lazy and unimaginative.

And as an aside from the cliche discussion, I dislike ownership of concepts. People who say 'I really like my hard house I do' or 'I love my food I do' are always the sort of people who wear novelty ties.

List? I was thinking more, perhaps, Venn diagram. As there are overlaps and uncertainties ... and lovely narrowed-eyed taxonomic discussions to be had.

PS - where I work, none of those things below are ever used straight-facedly (and utterly nor with air apostrophes: I think if anyone did one [or, pedantically, two, of course] of those they would be courteously but inexorably walked out by security) nor self-aggrandisingly (more the opposite).

So the whole effect is not quite like elsewhere, perhaps. I think if I saw a sportopundit saying Big Ask I would shriek too.

i put in 110%

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There was complete 'sea change'
come on! We need to 'push the envelope'and do some 'blue sky thinking'

If ye didnae laugh ye'd greet.

OH, and 'PROACTIVE'.

I hate "Those trousers are bang on trend" or "That hat is on the money"

and I am glad someone has mentioned "I'm loving"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO