So as someone who's conversationally anal retentive there are certain phrases that people use that I absolutely hate. Not so much because they're over-used but more because they just don't make any fucking sense. Last week a friend of mine was bitching about something and he was going on and on and on and then at the end he says "Eh. What are you gonna do?" So I asked him, "I don't know. What are you gonna do . . . aside from bitch and complain?" He didn't really have an answer for that.
Here's one I get a lot - "it's neither here nor there." Hold on just a fucking second! It's neither here NOR there? Then where the fuck is it? If it's neither here nor there then it simply doesn't exist!
And then there's this - "very unique". First off, "unique" means "one of a kind". It's from the latin "uni" meaning "one" and "que" meaning "of a kind". So if something is very unique that means it's even rarer than "one of a kind". I guess it would mean "none of a kind"? Yes! It's so unique and it's so rare that it's neither here nor there! Eh . . . what are you gonna do?
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