What is the most abused phrase in the english language ?

Question

is it i love you, as in i only hit you because i love you,
is it, its for your own good ?
is it sorry i apologize, as we know we will do the same thing again

I'm sure we each have our own phrases, but what do you think the worst is and for what reason ?

Answer 1

def sorry .. ppl say it bcos they feel they shud not bcos they r truely sorry

Answer 2

I think your right, its probably I love you.

Love has nothing to do with wanting to control someone, yet this is what most people mean when they use the phrase.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

The current most abused phrases are "thinking out of the box" and "flying under the radar".

Answer 4

I can think of many over-used phrases, that are mostly nonsense when used in the context a lot of people use them in.

Examples;

"You know what I mean?"
"At the end of the day..."

Answer 5

The most abused phrase - "Call me, we'll do lunch." Good intentions but how often does it really materialize?

Answer 6

out of the 3 you wrote I think that it is 'it's for your own good'
I hate it when people use that because you just know that it's not gonna do one bit of good and you are definatly not gonna like what's about to happen.

Answer 7

this question offends me. yet as for overused issues, i think of 'certainly' is the hot like. human beings certainly ought to renounce saying certainly. and as for offensive, over sensitivity is stressful. yet we ought to consistently no longer get censorship happy in the direction of complaining.

Answer 8

I Like My Job....um....Single, white-male, 6'0", 180lbs, likes long walks on the beach...yeah, right.....um......1977 Chevy Impala: runs good......bullcrap.......man read the classifieds, there's a ton of em.....

Answer 9

People asking, "How are you?" and then continue speaking before you get a chance to answer! Why not say, "Dont tell me how you are cos I dont care"

Answer 10

Brilliant,fantastic, genius, etc. All these words used to describe something mediocre.