Which Cliche Do You Hate The Most? Mine is "He Always Gives Me 110 Pecent!"

[jensinc]

win one for the gipper

that one was from a Ronald Reagan movie...

This originated in American football. Knute Rockne was the coach of the US Notre Dame team in the 1920s and George Gipp was his star player. The story goes that Gipp fell ill and when dying he asked Rockne to promise that, when things were going badly for the team, he should inspire them by asking them to 'win one for The Gipper'.

Ronald Reagan played the part of Gipp in the 1940 film Knute Rockne: All American. The screenplay has the line:

And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper.
​

Reagan was given the nickname Gipper, which lasted throughout his life. Reagan later used the quotation when seeking election as US president.

 

[jensinc]

At work I hate it when I hear management tell people they "need to work smarter" when they've laid off a bunch of people, and those still employed are doing the work of more than one person.

Um, like people are working dumb?

I feel like saying "shut the fuck up."

Ask the management.. they are the ones that want you to work smarter.. if i wasn't doing it smarter all along, maybe it was because of your training

 

[Mr_Mark]

Going forward

I like the saying "going forward" when its used in the sense of cant be focused on the past

 

[Mr_Mark]

one that I hate in basketball is "he makes them when it counts" every shot and every free throw count

 

[jensinc]

Maybe some of you parents may feel this one

"they are all winners"

No, i played peewee soccer, and one of the teams won, and one of the teams lost. The kids know the difference.

 

[Mr_Mark]

Which cliche do you hate the most? Mine is when a coach states that his player 'Always gives me 110 Percent !" My follow-up question would ask that coach why, if his player can give 110 percent effort, why can't he give 120 percent? 130 percent, etc.? Always pissed me off to hear that and inevitably , we will hear it again soon. What are your pet-peeves with cliches? PS. I guess we all could start with the cliches in Bull Durham, and go from there(even though I love that movie).

Reminds me of the Man show episode when they try out for the dodgers and Tommy Lasorda gets so mad when they keep saying 100%

 

[Mr_Mark]

Reminds me of the Man show episode when they try out for the dodgers and Tommy Lasorda gets so mad when they keep saying 100%

<iframe width="512" height="288" src="http://www.hulu.com/embed.html?eid=n0dvarwwijxwqvaa3uo8gw&partner=dailymotion&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dailymotion.com%2fvideo%2fxsod2t_the-man-show-spring-training_fun" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[quantumleap]

It is what it is. What the hell is that?

EVERYTHING is what it is.

I think people are trying to say "that's just the way things are".

 

[bigtendominator]

I hate when people in sports say, don't look now, but team X is only down 3 or 3 back in the standings.

 

[HarryCaray]

"That guy is some kind of *insert word here* <insert word="" here="">"

As in "Boy that Steph Curry is some kind of shooter!" Really? What kind? Good? Bad? Streaky? Accurate?

You're the professional announcer, you think of the goddamn adjective.

This drives me absolutely nuts.</insert>

 

[bigtendominator]

Pat haden would also say, he is somekind of special.

 

[dannymcnagger]

"Unbelievable! We made it!"

 

[HacheMan]

How about this one...

"My hands are tied"

 

[slapshot]

I didn't jinx em

 

[CFBFan]

At work I FUCKING HATE "ITS A WIN - WIN" ##)

 

[Ticotaco]

Thanks to All who responded - made me snicker many times reading all of the responses. Not sports related but how about this oldie," To have your cake and eat it too!" What the hell does that mean? Who would have cake and not want to eat it (All of it, in my case!)?

 

[DELSOL]

"busier than a one arm papaer hanger." Fucking can't stand it.

 

[Hotpizza]

Ever ask someone how they found 10% extra of one self. Do they have a jar of extra fingers or toes ? No such thing as giving 110% of a 100% entity. Always correct people on that and they never have a valid reply back on where the extra 10% is located.

 

[Bakes1]

It is what it is. What the hell is that?

Hate this also.. people at work say it all the time.

1 guy says " 9 times out of 10" for just about everything, always want to say I doubt the odds are that high.