Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

‘yeet’

You are what you yeet.

Yeets don't fail me now

Yeet the rich.

God made Yeet and man's gotta eat

Yeet your heart out.

Phew nobody's done the obvious yet

if this gonna be that kinda party ima stick my yeet in the mashed potatoes

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, where to the climber upward turns his face: But when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. Yeet.

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not yeet of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

'abundance of caution'

^ been overworked lately and in need of a rest

ironically the phrase, "a form of words"

something referred to - most likely in the workplace - as an "x piece"

"this is part of our online piece," someone might say, or, "because of the values piece"

Jesus yes

I'm generally not with just offering up normal office jargon itt but that one is a horror

“across the piece” very common where i work, meaning “affecting many parts of the business”

"Naming" things - meaning mentioning them, but with some vague connotation of bravely telling the truth - is very common in my place of work.

I just wanted to name that...
Thank you for naming that!
What you just named is interesting because...

Often used in conjunction w/piece, meaning element of teaching practice - "that piece you just named..."

"And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field"

“always already”

I tend to picture the writer leaning back smugly like they know they’ve just blown my mind

"Speaking my truth"

"talking around" as in "today we're going to be talking around X", which is inadvertently a good description of those point-missing meetings. The better ones are "focusing in on X".

let's really bottom that out

we need to really drill into that

Misread that as dril and was about to quibble.

what now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoWRPLOVgAIMUYc?format=jpg&name=small

whoa let's pump the brakes on that

i’ve got some builds i can share on that one, holy canneloni!

Wrote this four years ago and I'm sticking to my story:

When the tedium is intense, business jargon can inject some brief excitement into the day. embracing it with real enthusiasm is a sign of desperation.

I was about to go off on the "Resolute Desk" for being insufferably pretentious, but it turns out that the president's desk was made from salvaged oak from the Arctic explorer ship HMS Resolute, presented by Queen Victoria as a gift to Rutherford Hayes in 1880.

tbf rutherford b. hayes was a . . . melt

what are the knock-on effects? we need to iron that out

The only downside of vaccination is that I have to hear the phrase 'roll out' all the time now.

I realized just now, whilst innocuously browsing online for outdoorsy gear, that the word “snood” gives me instant rage.

"anecdata"

“learnings”. wtf why plural?

Ugh that one has me out in hives tbh

Borat’s to blame.

Athleisure

"Deep dive" is already on here a few times (including from me). Let me add its almost-as-annoying twin: "drilling down." I don't know if there's anything intrinsically obnoxious about either, it's their ubiquity.

Never liked "nosh." Never.

It's a serviceable noun that migrated from yiddish into english and then underwent verbification by the Twee Set. Just try to remember that it once had a dignity that its new owners have robbed from it.

I had no idea it was used in the US tbh.

Only dates from the late 50s too, surely not?

Having consulted The Joys of Yiddish, I see 'to nosh' was an accepted verb form, in addition to using 'a nosh' as a noun, by speakers who mixed yiddish and english. So, the verbification began well back.

can never see it now without thinking of giles coren's massive hissy fit:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

David Mitchell might be a posh twat, but you have to feel a little sorry for him having a brother-in-law who's that much of a cunt. Anyway 'nosh' is a word I associate exclusively with The Beano, not blowjobs.

Yes, it's very much a Leo Baxendale type word.

What I liked best about that letter was that he "wrote that entire paragraph for the sake of that joke" and it was a totally unfunny worthless joke. He happened to be right about the sub editor screwing up by removing "a" from "a nosh", but -oh my!- all that fury for the sake of a crap joke he grossly overestimated the value of.

A much-missed Jewish deli in Minneapolis had an ad campaign in the 1970s with the tag line ‘KIBITZ AND NOSH’.