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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo
Does this phrase annoy anyone else?
Example
"I could care less about that bastard"
This makes NO sense. I hear people saying it on tv and shows all the time, and it annoys me.
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That one doesn't bother me. "I could care..." makes you think well what is the threshold that a person suddenly becomes caring, then it crosses the line back into the don't care zone by ending it with "... less about the bastard." The sentence begins with hope but ends terse grumpiness.
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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo
If you could care less about someone then that means that you don't fully disregard them, that you could actually care less about them, another words you still don't fully dislike or hate them.
"I couldn't care less about that bastard" is the correct phrase.
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In a way I disagree. A person saying they don't care is expressing apathy not that they are not fully disliking or hating. To quote Elie Wiesel:
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Originally Posted by Elie Wiesel
the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference; for at a minimum, to love or hate someone is to have intense emotions toward them.
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Phrases that bother me are the ones that are illogical statements, or mixed metaphors the ones that make me waste timing trying to figure out what the heck the person is trying tp say.
"Noone" It's actually "no one." Writing it without the space makes it look look like Olde English for "noon."
Agree to disagree. It can't be both.
The same difference. An endless loop of contradiction.
Not my cup of meat. I hate that one, it's either "it's not my cup of tea" or "one man's meat is another man's poison." No one has meat in their cup....no one.
From the gecko. It's "from the get-go." I'm sure a tiny lizard isn't starting trouble eg "I didn't like him from the gecko."
Other mixed metaphors that I could care very little about:- We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.
- You could have knocked me over with a fender.
- He was watching me like I was a hawk.
- I’ll get it by hook or ladder.
- He’s a wolf in cheap clothing.
- They’re diabolically opposed.
- He received a decease and desist order.
- I wouldn’t eat that with a ten-foot pole.
- Take a flying hike.
- I shot the wind out of his saddle.
- He’s not the one with his ass in a noose.
- A loose tongue spoils the broth.
- It’s all moth-eared.
- I can read him like the back of my book.
- From now on, I’m watching everything you do with a fine-tuned comb.
- It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
- He’s like a duck out of water.
- These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck.
- It’s time to grab the bull by the tail and look him in the eye.
- I wouldn’t be caught dead there with a ten-foot pole.
- I hope he gets his curve ball straightened out.
- It’s time to step up to the plate and lay your cards on the table.
- He’s burning the midnight oil from both ends.
- You can’t change the spots on an old dog.
- It sticks out like a sore throat.
- It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride.
- People are dying like hotcakes.
- He’s a little green behind the ears.
- You can’t go in there cold turkey with egg on your face.
- We have to get all our ducks on the same page.
- The fan is gonna hit the roof.
- I have a lot of black sheep in my closet.
- I'm sweating like a bullet.
- She’s suffering from a detached rectum.
- People who live in glass houses shouldn't gather moss.
- Don't get all of your eggs out of two bushes.
- It's as American as killing two birds with one apple pie.
- Right there on the tip of my brain.
- A leopard can't change his stripes.
- A stitch in time is worth a pound of cure.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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