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Local radio had a good segment today on phrases or sayings that if you were given full immunity you could punch the next person to say it right in the mouth!

One that comes to mind for me?

"give 110%"

You can only give everything you have which is 100%.

What's yours?

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When my boss wants to check on how (anyone) is doing he walks up and asks "everything going your way?" After a few hundred times I'm really sick of it. Today I was asking someone else a question, he did it and I just turned to him and said "no".

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"At the end of the day"

I played softball with a guy years ago that said this all the time...drove me nuts.

Mine:

"24/7"

"Do you want to come with?"

anything "viral" ( unless you're speaking about an illness you have, then it's acceptable )

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"At this time"

it's just now, or just leave it off. self important extra words ignorant people use to try to make themselves seem important.

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"metrics"

Engineering learned a new word about a year ago. We don't look a data anymore we look at "metrics".

"let me break this down for you"

Another phrase used in meetings. Apparently we're all to stupid to figure something out on our own so we need the speaker to "break it down for us".

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