Way OT: Phrases you Hate 932are asking, and exactly since drive OK sure - 1) "I could care less" - yeah I'm sure you could freaking care less! The phrase is "I couldn't care less" As in, no matter...
Wayne Boatwright
Okay, one that really gets me - not a phrase as such - is "gal". I absolutely hate it when someone calls someone a gal or says "guys and gals".
When I first got on Usenet about 14 years ago I really hated a lot of the terminology - flame was one, but I've sort of gotten used to it so it doesn't bother me as much, and also it seems you don't hear it being used nearly as much these days. But the one I still hate and always will is "newbie". It just makes my skin crawl and my teeth grit. I think it is used elsewhere in the same sense but you really get it a lot on the newsgroups.
And then there are the phrases which are just poor grammar, such as "as of yet". In fact you don't need the "as" but I can tolerate "as yet", but the "of" is totally wrong here.
Then there's the way the cooks talk on tv, especially the ones on the Culinary Insbreastute of American show and others of that ilk. They always add an unnecessary preposition to every cooking verb - cook off, plate up, reduce down, etc. (Yikes, for some reason I can't think of any good ones, but I know I'm always gritting my teeth when I watch these shows and they say this stuff.) Now there are some idiomatic uses of prepositions after verbs that I'm fine with - "I'm gonna fry me up a pbuttel of greens." or "I'm going to cook up a pot of grits." or "You have to boil off all the liquid
Well, that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I could come up with tons more stuff if I really thought about it. ;-)
Kate
