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

I think 'slow up' is an occasional southern US thing? I don't know - I've heard it a few times. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/slow-down-v-slow-up.940985/

offering up has a specific connotation ime

Yeah, more like surrendering something, maybe?

its a sacrifice to a higher cause, yeah

specifically a hurt or suffering (afaict whether or not twas asked for or not, you can offer it up the way youd swap a gift for store credit iirc)

Though I suppose I've heard it in the sense of 'The restaurant offers up a wide variety of dishes etc.', which seems to have less of the sacrificial element.

well it adds a frisson until the food arrives at the very least non

offering up has a specific connotation ime

i keep seeing it in the context of companies “offering up” products and services

awesome sauce

stop it now

thought that one finally died. just let me believe that, okay?

OK.

it didn't go away, it just morphed into Shut The Front Door! Shut. The Front. Door!

first time I heard STFD I thought it was hilarious, and I still kinda do! guess I haven't been bludgeoned to death with it yet

Are ppl saying that now? I mean I've heard it but rarely. It feels very old fahioned to me.

tbh i don't know what people say these days, i spend most of my life in the same 25 ft radius

first time I heard it was just, idk, 6-7 years ago. is it old?

sick of heartbrokenness

^ terrible

add heartsick, brokenhearted

anything having to do with the state of one's own heart that is not literally about heart disease

I always liked the Germanic flavor of "heartsick" it's so radiantly non-Latinate! The Old English heortseoc actually meant literal heart disease but we ruined it

"Shut the front door" sounds like something mormon teenagers would say.

Ha! I think I'm right about that one!

if you hear someone say awesomesauce it's only a matter of time before they say amazeballs. it's endearing at sufficient remove

https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1404632

It's Napoleon Dynamite isn't it, along with "flippin'" etc., it's all Napoleon Dynamite

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"Shut the front door" sounds like something mormon teenagers would say.

― Dan I., Wednesday, June 20, 2018 5:22 PM

lol

if you hear someone say awesomesauce it's only a matter of time before they say amazeballs

i literally forgot those two were separate things

decine of western civ: awesomesauce is in the OED

I have experienced heartsickness/heartbrokenness, as the word is used in the emotional sense, not in a medical sense. It was during the time when our desperate struggle to take care of our daughter was reaching its nadir and the only apparent remedy that might bring anything resembling peace would be death, either mine or hers.

fwiw, it felt like a peculiar sensation more or less where the heart is located, somewhat behind the sternum, not quite an ache, but more a sense of painful loss and emptiness that rarely went away except in sleep. My physical heart muscle did not seem to be connected to it, other than sharing a similar space. Some weeks after I began to notice it, occurred to me that I was "heartbroken", a word that made perfect sense to me at the time. It still does.

Oh. That is very moving, A.

but LL is probably correct to say it is overused hyperbole in almost all cases

famous example: "the heartbreak of psoriasis". hell, I have psoriasis and heartbreak isn't even in the same country.

exactly -- i'm not saying it's not real, just saying it's an overused and cheap cliche

I wrote a couple sonnets recently and it turns out all metaphors and most three-word phrases are cliches. :(

I can't really imagine that kind of pain, Aimless, I hope you never experience it again.

‘Shut the front door’ is associated with ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’ because Guy Fieri says it more often than ‘flavortown’.

I picture Elaine saying it on Seinfeld. I’m glad I don't watch any Guy Fieri shows.

^ Yes! I'm certain that Elaine said it at least a couple times. I have no idea if it's old or not it just sounds like it is somehow.

We're probably getting into overly-prescriptive, distinctly 'my problem' territory here, but I keep hearing people at work say 'squash' when they mean 'quash' and it's driving me nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20hgQa-mkVQ

That undercuts the impact my much-beloved retort, 'no, YOU'RE the door!'

Flippin' eck, Tucker.

"hydrate" is not a better way to say "drink water."

Nobody actually says "quash." Everyone says "squash" instead.

It's the new 'expresso'.

I don't think I've ever heard that usage of "squash" irl.

I'm going to up the ante and start using 'squish' in the hopes that someone will tell me that, um, actually, it's 'squash'.

"up the ante" reminds me about "up your game."

Up Your Avocado Game With These 11 Tricks.

um actually its quish

quash, btw, quote commonly used and i dont think ive ever seen squash used instead in the manner offered itt

Come to the States, we love to say things worng.

ive been and I heard