Worst Common Sayings Ever

“…unprecedented…”

I can’t explain it, but any phrase containing that word (too many IMO) makes me oddly suspicious.

Sort of like how anything said after having said the word “basically”, sounds a little less like truth…

Hermit Philosopher said:

“…unprecedented…”

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Interesting. Certain things can simply never have happened before in human recording of events. Doesn't seem all that outlandish or presumptuous if used as honestly as one can estimate.

Hermit Philosopher said:

Sort of like how anything said after having said the word “basically”, sounds a little less like truth…

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Not sure I get that from this either. I take the word "basically" to mean that whatever is following is an attempt at a more basic description of whatever is being discussed. Perhaps a different wording, or more succinct explanation, or something analogous after taking a stab at fleshing out an idea more fully - which might have been more pedantic or possibly harder to grasp with a simple reading, etc.

Snow White said:

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

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Whose bush?

I slept like a baby.....

Ok, so you woke up 6 times crying/screaming, **** yourself once, and sucked your thumb?

All good things come to those who wait.

.... Uhm. No.

Snow White said:

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."

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That one makes sense.
A bird one has is a certainty
....vs....
2 birds that one might not get at all.

It Aint Necessarily So said:

It takes two to tango.

This comment immediately gives false equivalency to two different positions when one is making a legitimate complaint about the behavior and reaction of another. I usually respond with, "Yeah, and it takes four to square dance and one to go-go dance. Did you have a point?"

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I usually only hear this phrase in a sexual context that tends to include babymaking.

"Whatever!"

If you can't spell a word look in the dictionary

Look to the present moment
Shoot. That moment just past. Next time.

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My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.
– Jon Bon Jovi

Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
– Brooke Shields

I believe there would be many people alive today if there were a death penalty.
– Nancy Reagan

It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment, it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
– Dan Quayle

I know how hard it is to put food on your family.
– George W Bush

You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
– Yogi Berra

I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.
– Britney Spears

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.
– Steve Martin

Nobody notices what I do.....until ..
I don't do it.

Give you an inch and you take a mile !

Rival said:

I usually only hear this phrase in a sexual context that tends to include babymaking.

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That's common in my experience as well, but I've heard it used elsewhere. It's not always wrong or inappropriate.

I heard it once when I was definitely tangoing. I was an intern on call in the ICU of a hospital in which some attending physicians shared their cases with us and mentored us in exchange for the help we provided addressing issues in the hospital and creating the chart documents like the dictated history and physical that the attending only needed read and cosign.

But there were also the docs and their patients that we didn't see except if they coded while we were there, or died and needed to be pronounced dead. One such doc was a neurosurgeon, whose patient that none of us had been involved with, died after months in a coma while I was on duty, and so, I was called. The neurosurgeon on the case was disgraceful in his charting. The entry every day for pages and pages of chart notes was, "Unchanged" followed by an illegible signature. That was it. I was so offended, that when I pronounced the patient dead, opened the chart for the first time to indicate as much in the record, and saw what looked like something from The Shining, I couldn't help myself, and simply wrote "Changed" and signed it.



Not surprisingly, the neurosurgeon was not as amused as I and the ICU nurses were, and he reported me to the head of medical education, who read me the riot act, and at one point told me it takes two to tango. I don't recall why - maybe I was trying to put the blame on the neurosurgeon and his subpar performance - but I didn't argue, and frankly, he and I tangoed alright. It was so worth taking the hit. Here I am decades later with this story that still makes me laugh. I'm laughing right now.