Favourite (i.e. most hated) cliches!

[MrsThierryHenry]

From the sublime to the ridiculous.

"Shit happens."
"Just bear with me"

"as a fully paid-up member of the [cunt's club], I feel I must point out.. "

"Oh good boy, well done, that was anticipatory."

so-and-so's been tasked with..

Were I a betting man (always man)

Been there, done that, got the T shirt

"Got the T-shirt." Just awful.

"Back in the day" had not heard this until recently and now every book/article I read seems to have this phrase.What day FGS?? Grr a really annoying Americanism.

Additionally

Thinking outside the box

Target driven

Singing from the same hymn sheet.

Aaargh

'pushing the envelope' (yuk)

and 'only time will tell' intoned sonorously at the end of a news item ...

onebatmother

am intrigued as to your house's glitter factor.

do you have a sparkly mural in the lounge?

we "rolled it out" across the whole house, harpo...

it's v important to hit the ground running when you're going for the glitter factor

Has anyone noticed the over use of the word "robust" at the moment?

Radio 4 and politicians are really guilty of this one at the moment.

It really pisses me off.

Blue sky thinking.
It will be something or nothing.
Ergo.
Wow factor.
Thinking outside (of) the box.
Between you, me and the gatepost.
He pulled rank on me.
Me time.
Catch some rays.
He's really coming on. (Said of 6 week old baby).

The ergo one makes me want to fall about laughing.

"going forward" (instead of in the future)
I know who in the office has just arrived from a management course, because "going forward" suddenly appears on their emails.

Me time is the very worst, I think. With its implication of an entirely manufactured aspiration to 'hedonistic' consumption involving the purchase of 'laboratory' beauty products or 'gourmet' chocolate.

or candles.

Reading this is like being back in the office, even though I left half an hour ago.

My manager uses all these sick-inducing, teeth-grinding, toe-curling phases all the time. What's more, he has no idea how ridiculous he sounds because he has been stuck in the same company for 25 years and hasn't had the benefit of other environments where they just don't say these things.

lol onebat. 'me time' is the absolute worst expression ever, no question about it. using it means that you are the sort of person with whom no one else would wish to spend 'their time'.

with respect

delievered just before something truly humungusly rude

personally i hate

• the marriage broke down.

No it didn't.it isn't a seperate entity. They just couldn't be in the same room anymore.

I hate
throws his hat into the ring.
Only political pundits ever use that phrase.

'We'll touch bases later' - WTF
'Same shit, different day'
'Don't judge a book by its cover'

Have been known to utter 'no peace for the wicked' when slaving for the kids

OH!!

When you open a letter and it says "Please find information attached"

I always get an image of someone forgetting to LOOK for the attached form, and go "WHERE!!! WHERE is the information!!!"

I suffer very much whenever someone says "it's all good".