Formerly hip expressions you're tired of hearing

[spooky3]

“I’m OBSESSED with (something).”

Just stop, please.

[Scrivener7]

1. "It's giving" As in "Her expression is giving snootiness" or

"That outfit is giving money."

The expression "it's giving" is giving "trying too hard."

[johnp3907]

2. I'm so unhip I don't even know what the hip expressions are!

[Skittles]

3. I don't know if it was HIP

but I never could stand "I just threw up in my mouth a little"

[spooky3]

4. Hee hee - we can do without that one nt

[electric_blue68]

5. I get the emotion, but EWW, No!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. That always struck me as jarringly juvenile when uttered by adults. . . . nt

[yorkster]

35. Same here. Mentioned this in a comment

awhile ago. Could never get why it was used so often for so long as it is so repulsive.

[electric_blue68]

6. 🤔 Groovy? Oh, I used it back in the day, but now? Fairly cringey.

[LeftInTX]

37. I never said it. Too cringy for my crowd back then.

I swear it was a "made for TV" saying....

"Groovy man"...

[gay texan]

64. still use it n/t

[electric_blue68]

65. Everyone is free to choose. 👍

[Frasier Balzov]

7. I've noticed that "Right?" is injected a lot.

I'm on the lookout for it now.

When somebody says "Right?" in every other sentence, I began to devalue whatever else they have to say.

Maybe it's technically not a hip expression, but it aspires to be. More than the old verbal crutch of "ya know."

[spooky3]

13. I agree--very annoying and ubiquitous! Nt

[electric_blue68]

20. Oh! My sister broke me of the "you know" habit in my early 20's, luckily!

[Freddie]

8. Hack

“The latest dinner hack”
“Money saving hack” etc
Hack it off now.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Good One

I don't care for it either.
Never used it. I just use "tip".

[Harker]

57. But not the "pro tip", which fits the category for me.

That's cringey... which is also on my list.

[ProfessorGAC]

60. Fair

Cone to think of it, if I say "pro tip" it's usually sarcastic. If we're on the golf course, and a guy block one into the woods I might say "Pro tip; hit it straighter." I did say that to our handyman whose 2 teenage kids are both guitar students. I told him that if they want any advice or pro tips I was available. But, I actually got paid to play music so it seemed appropriate.

[Harker]

61. Ah. It's all personal, Professor.

My wife's eldest son (26) views me as a corny old man, as a lot of my terminology is outdated.

When I was eighteen in 1977, I was sure I'd always be hip.

[ProfessorGAC]

62. Right With Ya

I'm 3 years older than you. And, I played in bands until i was 51.
Now, I'm just an older guy that used to play in bands!

[Scrivener7]

21. Oh, God. Yes.

[paleotn]

52. That one is extremely annoying.

[hlthe2b]

9. The shortcut phrase "go with" or "come with..." Why is it "cool" to leave off the object

of the verb? It just sounds utterly ignorant to me. sigh...


Or to those still using "my bad..." Damn, this dates back twenty years at least.

[yorkster]

46. I thought it was a regional thing. But all of a

sudden, I started hearing it everywhere.

[Ocelot II]

55. It's regional - Midwestern, from German and Scandinavian immigrants.

For example, "Are you going along?" can be said "Skal du med?" in Norwegian - literally, "Shall you with"?

[msongs]

10. broken hip? nt

[JoseBalow]

11. OMG! You're literally killing me!

Figuratively speaking...

[spooky3]

12. Good one! Nt

[cloudbase]

15. Literally.

Awesome.
Epic.

[spooky3]

17. Those words have lost their meaning. Nt

[Different Drummer]

50. Exactly!

If everything is "awesome" or "epic". then nothing is. Both have been overused to the point of becoming irrelevant.

[nuxvomica]

16. "No worries"

I first heard it Ireland in 2014 and every server or barista or hotel employee under the age of 30 used it, and it seemed quaint. Then I started hearing it over here, again, people in their twenties, as if the phrase "Don't worry about it" never existed. I used it myself recently in a text message and I felt like a sellout. Now I want to use it, but ironically.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. I think it was first popular in Australia in 1990s. Different from "Don't worry", but it is the same as "No problem"

It's different from "Don't worry". That is a command to you. "No worries" means "I have no worries about the issue or event". It is meant to put the hearer at rest without COMMANDING them.

If you don't like "no worries", do you dislike "no problem"? Pretty much the same, except one is singular and the other plural. Two words each, same number of letters.

I don't worry about "no problem" and I have no problem with "no worries".

[LeftInTX]

40. "De nada" is the Spanish equivalent of "you're welcome"

If literally means "for nothing" and pre-dates "no worries" and "no problem" etc.


We learned it in Spanish class in 1968. We always thought it was a strange saying. It sounds like slang, but it isn't.
I think it was picked up in English in the 80's or something like that.

Hubby used "de nada" at work, but learned "no hay de que" (there's nothing to it) in school.
"No problema" is probably the most common informal/slange "you're welcome" in Spanish.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/comments/x1lcci/other_ways_to_say_youre_welcome_instead_of_de_nada/

https://spanishandgo.com/learn/15-different-ways-to-say-youre-welcome
https://en.amazingtalker.com/blog/en/spanish/64925/

[dai13sy]

18. Thank you. I hate that phrase.

[WestMichRad]

19. Like, really?

…

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Or even just "like"

Like it is epicly overused, ya know. Like speakers think it is an awesome way to, like, avoid saying "uh" or "um" yaknow, but it is just as bad.

[Different Drummer]

51. Valley speak. (n/t)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

58. Now that you mention it, you are right. Amazing how much influence that little pocket had. . . . . nt

[ArnoldLayne]

22. Gotcha!! and Multiple this or Multiple that.

[Figarosmom]

23. Im tired

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Of people copying Mathew McConahay's "alright, alright, alright"

[Iggo]

24. The GOAT.

Just stop.

[Auggie]

66. Yes!

[KitFox]

25. "You got this"

I’m tired of hearing this non descriptive phrase for a specific situation. There are so many other possibilities for words of encouragement

[NJCher]

26. That one

Strikes me as patronizing.

Oh, please. I don’t need to be told I can handle something, especially by (patronizer).

[yorkster]

36. Or even I've got this.

Especially when heard in dialog from a film or series depicting events of many decades earlier. It just jumps out.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Vocal rise: it communicates neediness for affirmation. Vocal fry: misplaced seduction voicing

It is popular among women and some men to use the vocal rise on statements, voicing them as questions. It should be dropped immediately because it projects insecurity, being unsure about the statement, or needing affirmation from the listener because of a lack of confidence.

Usually the person using the vocal rise is pretty confident about what they are saying but somehow it is a habit, a popular affectation that devalues what the person is saying.

Vocal fry, also popular among mostly women, is a seductive voicing that communicates intimacy and late night drowsiness. When it is applied in conversation and interviews the speaker is almost never trying to be seductive. But it comes across as like "Come on over to my place at night." It's another affectation that sabotages the speaker's intent.

Fortunately vocal fry is finally receding from its fadishness. Though vocal rise is slowly declining it still plagues many speakers.

[WestMichRad]

33. Overuse of vocal rise drives me crazy.

Makes me immediately question the competence of the speaker. Makes them sound like they have no conviction in what they are saying. Arrrgh!!

[Different Drummer]

53. Or, in some cases, selling.

Think Christina Hall in those Jacuzzi Bath Remodels commercials.

[yorkster]

38. Sometimes to me vocal fry suggested that

the speaker was only going to expend a very small amount of energy while speaking. Too cool to make an effort, as in
I'm going to just barely speak or respond to you.
There is also, of course the effect of drowsiness/intimacy that you mentioned.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

44. Remember when the DJs on FM radio (when they had DJs)

Remember how the FM DJs had their bedroom voice: soft, low, not going to wake anybody up.

[yorkster]

47. Yes, I do. Most often it was very pleasant,

as opposed to the braying, adenoidal pitchman style of some am djs.

WGBH in Boston had two of the best voices at one point. Ron Della Chiesa
had a jazz program in the pm and Robert J. Lurtsema was the classical fm voice in the early am.

Both quite mellifluous in very different ways..

[GoneOffShore]

68. I remember listening to WBZ AM late night with Dick Summer.

He was an excellent broadcaster and just died this May.

[yorkster]

70. BZ had good "talent'. Summer was very good.

Dave Maynard and Jefferson Kay (Kaye?).
The latter used to have a folk show and I think he used the word hootenany on occasion. I was 16 or 17, liked rock and follk, but hated the word hootenany...
When I was a kid, Carl de Suze was the voice of authority on the radio, Boston wise anyhoo.

[Mike Nelson]

31. Zap Go the Expressions!

[Walleye]

32. Needs. Somebody or something "needs" something.

When really it is the speaker that needs something not the subject. He “needs” to be fired , for example

[Ocelot II]

59. Like this, right here on DU?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219855296

[quaint]

34. Random

[Wingus Dingus]

39. "All the feels". Ick.

[hlthe2b]

48. Eww! I agree. That sounds nasty.

[Different Drummer]

54. I *hate* that one!

[chicoescuela]

41. I'm old enough to remember.... Way overused, especially on the tv

and about things that happened very recently. Sounds dumb.

[bif]

42. "Don't be bogue, man"

[bif]

43. "What's the ask?"

[Redleg]

45. "It's in my DNA"

People use this to explain why they act or think a certain way, as though it is carved in stone.

[Clouds Passing]

49. Right? At the end of a sentence, usually every other sentence.

Sorry it’s a current expression, but pet peeve!!!!! It is annoying!!

Why do so many people think that every single thing they say has to be validated by who they’re speaking to?! It’s as if they are so wracked with self doubt they must announce it frequently, right?!

[pandr32]

56. Starting sentences with "So..."

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[hatrack]

63. "Meemaw" and "Peepaw" for grandparents . .

Really? Sounds great for six-year-olds, I guess.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

67. "puppers" . . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

69. Punchable face

When people deploy that phrase, there is nothing particular or noteworthy about the face. It is simply a call to violence because they don't like the person. It's the language of bullies.

It is a little disgusting how many erstwhile "progressives" use this expression, as if violence or vigilantism or appearance shaming are some kind of liberal value. People who think it is funny are easily amused and don't realize how words mold thinking and actions.

"But I'm not a violent person!": prove it by not praising it. Prove it by not introducing it into respectable discourse.

"But it is just a joke!" That's what right-wingers say to get around their racist statements when they get called on it. Let's not employ the same underhanded ways to get around advocating assault and battery. This is not high school.

Is there not too much violence in the world already?