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(5,395 posts)lastlib
(28,535 posts)In the 21st century, you've got to thnk outside the TESSERACT!

(Good luck with that.........)
True Dough
(27,205 posts)anyone who mutters "thinking outside the box" clearly is not "thinking outside the box," just relying on a cliche.
biophile
(1,530 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(33,200 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,591 posts)Buttoneer
(991 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(1,038 posts)kerouac2
(1,514 posts)It is what it is...
It's such a white flag of surrender thing to say.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,908 posts)happybird
(5,407 posts)It's not always a negative saying.
lastlib
(28,535 posts)FFS, tell us WHAT it is!
chowmama
(1,111 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
(28,535 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
(11,465 posts)so condescending.
True Dough
(27,205 posts)to getting one's knickers in a knot?
Marie Marie
(11,465 posts)spooky3
(38,822 posts)MIButterfly
(3,076 posts)I've even heard Democrats use that expression. Once and for all, It's the DEMOCRATIC party!!!
Mad_Dem_X
(10,220 posts)FadedMullet
(1,003 posts)synni
(785 posts)Intractable
(2,358 posts)Does that one count?
LogDog75
(1,357 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
(4,901 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
(1,292 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
(991 posts)Fla Dem
(27,747 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,340 posts)GusBob
(8,290 posts)Sorry to all
"FAFO"
and that "leopards eating face" one
Both way over used and just not clever anymore
Skittles
(172,621 posts)they are still VERY relevant
GusBob
(8,290 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
(8,996 posts)Blues Heron
(8,996 posts)And also Salty
DBoon
(25,117 posts)WmChris
(773 posts)Now here's something entirely different.
displacedvermoter
(4,938 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
(354 posts)Something the corporate media peeps always say. Is it a Civil Engineering course or what??
displacedvermoter
(4,938 posts)"Calling balls and strikes"
Liars.....
PittBlue
(4,823 posts)I hate that phrase.
Zorro
(18,821 posts)Skittles
(172,621 posts)it's just...........gross