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(5,250 posts)lastlib
(28,140 posts)In the 21st century, you've got to thnk outside the TESSERACT!

(Good luck with that.........)
True Dough
(26,488 posts)anyone who mutters "thinking outside the box" clearly is not "thinking outside the box," just relying on a cliche.
biophile
(1,386 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(32,853 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,421 posts)Buttoneer
(970 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(1,016 posts)kerouac2
(1,495 posts)It is what it is...
It's such a white flag of surrender thing to say.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,669 posts)happybird
(5,390 posts)It's not always a negative saying.
lastlib
(28,140 posts)FFS, tell us WHAT it is!
chowmama
(1,075 posts)This is the corporate version of 'thoughts and prayers'. I'd rather have time to do my job and the pay for it.)
A runner-up is 'going forward'. It's 'from now on', dammit!
Corporate-speak, blechhh!
lastlib
(28,140 posts)What happens after midnight??
"Half-mast" for a flag flown on land.
Ships have masts. On land, it's "Half-STAFF".
Starting any sentence with "Hopefully". That is an atrocity.
Marie Marie
(11,227 posts)so condescending.
True Dough
(26,488 posts)to getting one's knickers in a knot?
Marie Marie
(11,227 posts)spooky3
(38,563 posts)MIButterfly
(2,624 posts)I've even heard Democrats use that expression. Once and for all, It's the DEMOCRATIC party!!!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,183 posts)FadedMullet
(881 posts)synni
(770 posts)Intractable
(2,018 posts)Does that one count?
LogDog75
(1,266 posts)When I hear this I think "If you had already earned my trust then you wouldn't have to ask me to "trust you." This is the point my internal warning system starts raising red flags. Or, as the robot in the TV series Lost in Space would say: "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!"
rampartd
(4,555 posts)"you can take him at his word?"
i would never take witkoff "at his word"
another one, from an x=boss "you just don't get it"
10 Turtle Day
(1,203 posts)Usually said after some atrocity like a mass shooting. This is EXACTLY who we are. Maybe not us as individuals, but as a society the U.S. can be very sick.
Buttoneer
(970 posts)Fla Dem
(27,593 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,332 posts)GusBob
(8,237 posts)Sorry to all
"FAFO"
and that "leopards eating face" one
Both way over used and just not clever anymore
Skittles
(171,424 posts)they are still VERY relevant
GusBob
(8,237 posts)If something is overused it loses its relevancy
and to see it 2-3 times in threads makes it overused
and actually one reads it here everyday, and posted with any discussion along with it, which in my opinion is just lazy
Blues Heron
(8,752 posts)Blues Heron
(8,752 posts)And also Salty
DBoon
(24,936 posts)WmChris
(718 posts)Now here's something entirely different.
displacedvermoter
(4,326 posts)talking about "Going to war" with teammates. I recall the late Todd Christensen -- one of my favorite all time sportscasters -- going off one time about NFL players using this phrase!
NEOH
(300 posts)Something the corporate media peeps always say. Is it a Civil Engineering course or what??
displacedvermoter
(4,326 posts)"Calling balls and strikes"
Liars.....
PittBlue
(4,788 posts)I hate that phrase.
Zorro
(18,625 posts)Skittles
(171,424 posts)it's just...........gross