"At the end of the day" and "That's what I'm sayin' " Have you been hearing them?

I hear them alot in person and on tv. Funny how little sayings catch on all of a sudden and then everyone is saying it!

I probably don't hear those as much because I'm not out in the major working force.

Shamefully...I must admit that when I've told my husband something which either raises his eyebrows or makes him frown, I have gotten into the habit of saying, "I'm just sayin'."

I was just sayin' to DH last night how a current phrase I have noticed is "I'm just sayin'..." at the end of a perhaps unpalatable statement someone has made.

Others are "back in the day," "24/7," etc. They've been around awhile.

Also, "good times..." -- the most recent of these kinds of statements that catch on.

And let us not forget "That's what I'm talkin' about!"

Fumebag, I have heard "at the end of the day" quite a lot lately. Another one I've been hearing a lot for a while now is "at this point in time." It sounds redundant to me. Either "at this point" or "at this time" are sufficient to my ear.

Yes! That one too! I almost forgot about it! LOL

Fiveoaks, "at this point in time" was made famous by White House counsel John Dean during the Watergate hearings in the '70s. People joked about it, as they should have, but the statement entered the national lexicon and I guess we're stuck with it. It died down and I thought it was gone. I'm sorry to hear that it is in use. :<

Boxwood, thanks for the background on that. That would explain why it has a vague aura that the speaker may be scrambling for a few more seconds' delay to think up a believable lie. LOL

One day last week, I heard on the radio that if you want to sound intelligent, you have to forgo certain expressions, which were 5. I only remember two. One is: "It is what it is" and the second: "The perfect storm". If anyone knows the other three, please post. ; )

Ooooh, I hate so many of these phrases!!! Hate, hate, hate them all. So may pet peeves, I have a kennel for my pet peeves!

"At the end of the day" ...well, then there's night.
"It is what it is" ...so much for be all you can be.
"At this point in time" ...we are where Hemingway would call Now.
"That's what I'm talking about" ...no really, where's Edgar Bergen? I swear his lips are moving.
"I'm just saying" ...and I'm just not listening!

I found the list of "banned" words and phrases and it was not top 5, sorry about that:

Banned Words and Phrases


perfect storm
• Webinar
• waterboarding
• organic
• wordsmith/wordsmithing
• author/authored
• post 9/11
• surge
• give back
• `blank' is the new `blank'
• Black Friday
• back in the day
• random
• sweet
• decimate
• emotional
• pop
• It is what it is
• under the bus

I've been hearing "at the end of the day" for a good 18-20 years now. I kind of like it. I kind of like "Just sayin' " too. Of course, I don't want to hear either one over and over and over and over.

I also don't mind "at this point in time," if the speaker is referring to sort of a global historical perspective, as in "This was the point in time when man first walked on the moon." It emphasizes a moment along a larger continuum to me. Granted, it's wildly overused and abused: "Did you want to get Chinese tonight?" "At this point in time, I'm not hungry." Bleah.

"do you know what I mean?"

I must admit that I have a truckload of these sayings. It's American slang. That's all. I'm just sayin........

Here's another: "It's what I do." Or, "It's what we do." Self-congratulatory advertising.



Can we relax yet over what I perceive is a decline in the use of level playing field?

Twitch, then wouldn't the correct expression be "at that point in time?" "This" point in time is as Thomas stated: Now. (Hemingway's minimalism is getting to look better and better.) If it was another time, it would be "that" time. Please excuse me for nit-picking but it's so much fun!

It is fun, isn't it?

I think you'd usually say "that point in time," as you point out, unless you were making a comparison (between this point and that one, say). Or for a certain kind of emphasis or immediacy, which I find hard to define: "This was the moment she'd been waiting for all her life. Now she could finally go." "This was the point in time when everything changed."

I like many of those phrases, but then I love slang. "It is what it is" and "it's what they do" are profound to me in their way. They help me settle down.

My husband use those as well as "That's how we roll" as a means to mock ourselves. For example, it is pretty funny to pull up to valet parking at a fancy restaurant in an ancient four door toyota with Winnie the Pooh window shades. Especially when every other car in the lot is a BMW or Lexus. We chuckle and say, "that's how we roll!"

My pet peeves are "My bad" and "Where you at?" Ugh!

-Noelle



I really should edit before I post! I apologize for all of the mistakes.

-Noelle

I agree! "My bad" sounds immature, trying to be cutesy, cutesy. Like trying to avoid a ticket. Ugh!!

There is one expression that I like and it is: "that is who I am". To me, it is a sense of empowerment. No one can take that away from me because "that is who I am, I am what I am". Dang it.

Isn't it "I yam what I yam"?

My husband makes fun of me when I have those moments when I have to justify whatever it might be. I would say "I am what I am" then he would "correct" me with the Popeye saying.

So *that'*s who just dropped by and told me to post that ...

Ha,ha : )

Righto! Poetic license and all that.

The commercial with Martha Stewart and a bunch of stars decorating Macy's this Christmas, and Jessica Simpson caused all the lights to go out...'My bad' she says, as she replugs in the lights, and I just wanted to reach into the TV screen and ......

I heard this one twice in the media today. When did "What was he thinking?" become "What was he thinking about?"

I love "that's how I roll." It's delightfully self-depricatng.

I HATE "get it right" or "got it right," but that phrase seems to come up more on the BBC and in British media. I've heard it here though, I'm afraid it'll catch on.

My latest bugaboo is actually. Actually, I'm getting like, actually really tired of actually hearing this word a lot. Actually.

"It's all good." No it isn't!

I sorta like "That's how we/I roll" from time to time.

I'm with you, Brenda.....I detested that Martha Stewart Christmas commercial with the celebs and then Jessica says that about the electric plug. Grrrr.

The word that irritates me due to overuse is "amazing".

Everything sounds aMAZing. When 99.9 percent of the time, it's not.

In Australia we often hear politicians, journalists saying "At that point in time" ..... why not to just say " now"

Totally, totally this and totally that . That " totally " is totally everywhere, I hope you getting me like...totally.

AWESOME!

I have caught myself using "totally" and "dude" an alarming number of times since moving to California. ("Dude" still sounds funnier when my Middle English professor says it, though.) And I've caught my boyfriend saying "hella" recently.

"At the end of the day" is the reason I stopped watching "The Apprentice" during season 2. It drove me up a tree to hear that phrase every five minutes.

The one that annoys me is when something is talking then they say "blah blah blah" or "yada yada yada".

Are we so slack we can't even finish a sentence?

LOL Jicky, I just did that on a post here on POL earlier today.

Sorry!

Ha! I have a friend who's nearly 70 and from New England (I don't know if either thing accounts for this but I mention it just in case) and instead of yada yada, she says "da da da, do do do," and sometimes "da da da, do do do and whatever! Whatever. You know what I mean?" and occasionally I do, but mostly I have to say no, I have no idea. It gets to a point you would have to be psychic to know what she means from da da da do do do whatever.

It cracks me up.

Cool - very popular , on POL as well, but it is used so much and it is so booooooring. "Totally Cool "I hear quite often- such a cliche.

On the other hand, such occurances can provide a handy venue for a drinking game.

With Brits it's "Brilliant".............I think I'll say that one more often!

I go to do it myself, Velvetsky, simply because you hear it so often most days of the week, at home, with friends, on tv.

I tend to do 'etc etc etc', and as soon as I've done it I'm annoyed with myself.

Ones I hate:
Blah blah blah
It's all good
My bad
baby-daddy

I think baby-daddy sounds especially stupid and make fun of it by asking my husband if he is my "baby-daddy"