Re: Phrases You Hate To Hear

Forbidden Fruit · ‎09-04-2014

1. Speak your truth. (Great to have your opinion but how about getting to the absolute truth?)

2. I have anxiety. (When used as an excuse to not deal with something.)

songbird · ‎03-21-2010

Any sentence that starts with the word "Like....."

PJinIA · ‎03-21-2010

@on the bay wrote:
Also if someone says "relax" or "chill" when I'm upset about something and trying to communicate it, its' kind of like saying shut up or not understanding or dismissing what you are trying to say.
It just makes me more upset.
I've only heard guys say it.

Yup, or in my case my husband would always say "calm down"....not a good idea to tell someone to calm down when they are already all worked up!!

Goodie2shoes · ‎04-30-2012

" and again"

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

Ah, yes, @Forbidden Fruit "speak your truth" is the worst! Ugh

I also hate when people say they are "keeping it 100" with you.

Actually, I agree with just about every poster here! All of these phrases are annoying.

I dislike it when someone says they will "reach out" to me.

Redshoes07 · ‎01-26-2021

I don't like the phrase "it is what it is" ugh.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@PJinIA wrote:
@on the bay wrote:
Also if someone says "relax" or "chill" when I'm upset about something and trying to communicate it, its' kind of like saying shut up or not understanding or dismissing what you are trying to say.
It just makes me more upset.
I've only heard guys say it.

Yup, or in my case my husband would always say "calm down"....not a good idea to tell someone to calm down when they are already all worked up!!

@PJinIA,

Yes! "Calm down." That one especially-I was getting so annoyed I couldn't think of that which is the worst one-I think I blocked it out!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

Hearing some of these phrases make me think of some of my favorite phrases....

Bite me

Suck a lemon

Shut the *uck up

DrakesMomma · ‎06-02-2010

"and what-not"

Bookplate · ‎08-19-2011

@Bonkers1 wrote:
Mine - step out of your comfort zone.

@Bonkers1 : I know what you mean. It had never occurred to me that I HAD a comfort zone, but if I indeed had one, why in the world would I ever want to leave it?!