“Who hurt you?”

These days, that’s shorthand for “I’m an emotionally stunted liberal who is so incapable of self-reflection that anyone who disagrees with a point I have must be acting from a place of unresolved trauma”. It’s always felt like people-who-definitely-used-to-post-to-4chan burning extra words to get to the r-slur they so desperately want to use; but with the exact kind of plausible deniability that gets their squishy bits either hard or wet.

“bend the knee”
“Sweet summer child”
And other phrases from GoT that people now pretend they’ve been saying their whole lives

“The proof is in the pudding.” It makes zero sense! The actual adage is, “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” It means that a dessert can look perfect and enticing, but if the cook used salt instead of sugar it will taste disgusting.

I don’t know what people even think they’re saying with “the proof is in the pudding”.

“Would of” annoys me to no end. Which is silly because English isn’t my first language and I know I make many mistakes, but would of is just… Ugh. Ick.

I do the “eh” thing sometimes without thinking about it but I agree with you, I don’t like being on the other end of it either. I’m trying to work on that

Never mind I found it

…took the effort to nvm-d the post, but did not share how, where, or what etc

Calling someone a bot or a shill because they post something you disagree with. It’s so stupid. Like even if the person is a bot, would that matter if the point they’re making is salient and sourced?

“I don’t need to engage with the fact Biden has deported more people than Trump, because you are actually russian. Thus I have no reason to investigate my worldview.”???

It’s also such a tell. Like the person can’t imagine anyone thinking anything other than what they think, so they must not be real people with internal lives. Can’t imagine independent thought, literal NPC behaviour.
Especially because it’s always the most average of redditor-take-havers that say it.

“Hence why”

Syntactically makes no sense. Just say “that’s why,” that’s what you are trying to say.

SME (pronounced smee)

My company is flooded with SMEs who aren’t even good, let alone experts at anything

For me it’s “I’m offended” or “this offends me”. I get it, some topics might be triggering for some people but if you get offended because someone has a different opinion, that’s your problem, not the rest of the world problem.

Fucking “pre-prepare”. Prepare already means to get ready ahead of time.

Okay my bad, I do like all of these lol

Lemmings. A creature with a (erroneous but nevertheless extant) reputation for idiotically following each other off a cliff to die.

‘Playing Devil’s advocate’.

Mostly because most people who use it do so in glaringly wrong ways.

Especially in news headlines: slams, blasts, mind-blowing, hack (or lifehack)

I’m sure there are others, but that’s all my brain can handle at the moment.