I am sick to death of this phrase and would be thrilled never to hear or see it again. Things can go badly out of control without forming a spiral. In fact, I think they usually do.

What "in" phrases do you want to throw on a metaphorical fire?

I'll add:
touch bases with (should be touch BASE, from baseball)
cultural meme (if this isn't a meaningless word I don't know what is)
any adjective used as a noun ("we're adapted to like sweet")

Fire away! Give your reasons or don't, whatever.

Edited for typo.

Okay, now I'm dizzy.

Me to.

I'm sick of seeing the same mundane, over-used phrases like: "Why can't I find a good woman/man? :(", "What is love?", "Why can't I find a decent lover these days?", "There are no good wo?en/?en left". Ugh. Enough already. I don't usually ?oan about anything, but honestly, i wish the cliches would stop already.

Think outside of the box.

Whenever I hear, "That's how I roll"... For some reason it reminds me of toilet paper.

I forgot this one:

"Everything happens for a reason."

I've never been fond of the word 'sick' used as a good thing. Example: "Dang, that movie was sick!" (awesome). Not my generation I guess

Well.......I for one....am sick...of spiraling in this sea of no good women, in a box of what is love, I can't get outside of, while some idiot tells me it all happens for a reason.....


But hey.....

Thats how I roll!!!!!

Here's one that really ticks me off: God never gives you more than you can handle.

Someone made the mistake of saying that to me just after my husband died.

Backformations, like "intuit", although I have been forming them like crazy on my own (lugubr, sarc, snark, etc.)

The plural third person singular pronoun for singular third person genderless pronoun. I think it's a good idea, badly used. The badness comes out of the language needing to use plural with "they", even if it's one person, even one particular person, that "they" references. Most hateful from of it: Themself.

Text speech, text writing. I can't even read it, let alone like it. I at the same time welcome it, it's been a long time (make it four hundred years) that English has needed some form of phoneticizing. I am old shkool, it's strange for me, and it abhors me, but I admit it is superiour to using our old-fashioned, letter-wasting incomprehensibly unpronouncable system of writing.

There are cultural off-shoots of English, too, which are particularly extreme and maverick. Some reform schools of linguistics got on to study them, and found that they carry all the elements of English, insofar as everything, even by omission. Many sentences lack a formal "verb", but in those cases the verb is implied, and is implied consistently. And such stuff. A general txt type shortcutting the language, but not in spelling, but in grammar.

So out of the four things I hate in the English language that are new, I practice one big time, and the other three I find positive and very reasonable reformations.

If you die while the handle is in your hands, it's Satan's doing, and that's that. This, an emprically only establishable fact, without any indication or observation who handled you the handle.

I know you are grieving, but despite my removedness, I am too; I am grieving for the death of common sense amongst the religious.

"God has a reason for everything".

NO, GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 2 YEAR OLDS WITH BRAIN CANCER.

Exactly. You are absolutely right. It is Satan who has to do with that, no doubt, the evidence is clear, although we see no god and no satan ever around the poor, sick, innocent who are dying.

Yes, let's blame Satan, for things he is innocent of, let's praise the Lord, for we know he is a mean and jealous god, and let's ignore science which will tell you why a two year old boy gets brain tumor.

Science is completley ignorable, they build rockets that kill people, and school does nothing for us to understand it, so it's obviously not useful for us Ford auto workers and drug runners.

"Kick the can down the road."

If I hear one more politician, reporter, pundit, etc. say this, I'm going to call my congressman. Oh wait.

I got really really sick of hearing....

"... it was the perfect storm."

"just sayin"
"it is what it is"

also "I could care less," as that is not the correct way to say it.

I hate it when someone shrugs their shoulders and says:

"Whatever..."

If we all hate overused expressions, or wrongly used ones, then please consider these words as those to be most hateful:

"the"
"I"
"and"
"arsenokoitei"
and the period (.), the comma (,) and the space bar ( ).