Most irritating cliche/phrase/expression

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(blank) is in the house
or in da house
unless someone is actually in a house, then it's OK
"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.
Also, this is more sports related, and it may be a local phenomenon, but "Do it like you can." Here that a lot. Fills me with barely controlled rage.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

rawk

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

(blank) is in the house
or in da house
unless someone is actually in a house, then it's OK
"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.

Post of the day.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Post of the Month, I say. I practically spat coffee all over my keyboard in utter, unhomogenized mirth.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 19 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Where's Bill?" "Oh, he's in the house." That would be fine.
Naw, it still wouldn't be complete unless its a relentlessly white insurance salesman with thinning hair and owl-like spectacles saying it...and ending the statement with "Yo". As in...
[WHINY HONKEY]"Oh, he's in the house, yo."[/WHINY HONKEY]

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh NO....

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

People who last week couldn't find x on a map are now all of a sudden an expert in y

― anvil, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link

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...also, when people say it was yay big, in stead of this/that big etc. What about elitist twats who refer to The Guardian as The Grauniad?? I'll stop now as I'm only winding myself up...
― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 3:46 PM

I suppose that nineteen years ago this person not understand that “yea” in this context does not mean “this/that” but approximate? Perhaps enlightenment has come and their irritation has subsided.

― Kim, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link

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