Overused Phrases/Sayings

[thirstyboots18]

Any percentage over 100 is idiotic.

I can't stand 'score the ball'. You can rebound the ball, but you don't score the ball. You shoot the ball through the hoop, and you score.

Look at hockey. You don't score the puck. You score a goal. In football, you score a touchdown, you don't score a football. In baseball, you score a run, you don't score a player (you drive the player home).

You do score salmon skin before you grill it. I suppose you could score a basketball that way.

People can save time and breath by not bothering to add a direct object to score when talking about basketball.

ha ha ha.  I don't "score" the salmon skin before grilling it....

  Does the skin curl up?

I never noticed that it curled up...usually just cooks and loosens from the fish.  I don't score salmon skin when pan broiling, or broiling it, either. 

Smooth...basketball and food.  My two favorite subjects.   

[guava_wrench]

Any percentage over 100 is idiotic.

I can't stand 'score the ball'. You can rebound the ball, but you don't score the ball. You shoot the ball through the hoop, and you score.

Look at hockey. You don't score the puck. You score a goal. In football, you score a touchdown, you don't score a football. In baseball, you score a run, you don't score a player (you drive the player home).

You do score salmon skin before you grill it. I suppose you could score a basketball that way.

People can save time and breath by not bothering to add a direct object to score when talking about basketball.

ha ha ha.  I don't "score" the salmon skin before grilling it....

If the piece is small or if you don't want to eat a nice, crispy skin, then there is no need to score. I you want to eat a nice crispy skin on a 10-ounce piece of salmon, scoring helps.

Apart from the curling up others have mentioned, cutting through a nice crispy unscored salmon skin is a little more difficult without turning the salmon into mush.

[Rondo2287]

I'll start.

I cannot stand the saying,

"I'll take _____ seven days of the week, and twice on Sundays."

For some reason, sometime last year, I started reading that and then hating sunshine. Really? You'll take it twice on Sundays? Given a choice between winning potentially winning a goldfish or buying a small cotton candy, you take the cotton candy every day of the week and twice on Sundays? Well screw you buddy, what if they don't serve cotton candy on SUndays at all??? WHAT IF THE FAIR LEFT???

How is, 'every day of the week and twice on sundays' superior to 'I want option A, and have no interest in option B'?? I mean..I appreciate color in commentary, but Come On. Sometimes, if they color you're using would've also been used to color the Brady Bunch's commentary, maybe choose a different shade of hyperbole, yeah?

I know that 'it is what it is', but honestly, unlike the emmy-award winning completely underrated show Family Guy, it really Grinds My Gears.

So I think this started with "I thank god each day and twice on sundays"  as in somebodies praying every night and then goes to church on sunday.  Doubt it makes a difference but I thought the context was neat.

[Fafnir]

My first thought isn't overused sayings but instead ones people mangle.

"The proof is in the pudding"

"I could care less"

"Frankenstein" when refering to the monster

Beyond that, trickeration. Its a made up word that for some reason football announcers use instead of "trickery".

[sofutomygaha]

I literally always thought that it was "I couldn't care less"

... you know, because you care so little that it would be impossible for you to care any less

weird

[Redz]

I'm definitely guilty of using this one when someone says or does something unbelievable dumb, but "Really?" has sort of jumped the shark.

For that matter "jumped the shark" is kind of annoying.

[KGs Knee]

I literally always thought that it was "I couldn't care less"

... you know, because you care so little that it would be impossible for you to care any less

weird

That is how the saying is supposed to be phrased.  Sadly, many people bungle it.

[Redz]

I literally always thought that it was "I couldn't care less"

... you know, because you care so little that it would be impossible for you to care any less

weird

That is how the saying is supposed to be phrased.  Sadly, many people bungle it.

Because if you could care less then there is something slightly less important than the thing you care next to nothing about.

I could care more about straightening that out.

[guava_wrench]

Did I mention I love crispy salmon skin?

With or without mashed potatoes...

[thirstyboots18]

I literally always thought that it was "I couldn't care less"

... you know, because you care so little that it would be impossible for you to care any less

weird

I agree.  I thought the same, sofutomygaha. 

Way back when I was a kid, my least favorite thing to hear was:  "Because I said so, that's why."