MOST ANNOYING BUSINESS CLICHES

(April, 2018) A survey from Jive Communications asked 2,000 American workers for the office phrases they’re most sick of hearing. Here are The Top 40 Most Cringeworthy Used Phrases at the Office:
1. Give 110 percent
2. Think outside the box
3. Hammer it out
4. Heavy lifting
5. Throw them under the bus
6. Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched
7. Pushing the envelope
8. Let the cat out of the bag
9. Let’s circle back
10. Win-win situation
11. Blue-sky thinking
12. Boil the ocean
13. Synergy
14. Low-hanging fruit
15. Take it to the next level
16. Barking up the wrong tree
17. Going forward
18. Let’s ballpark this
19. Run this up the flagpole
20. Back to square one
21. There’s no I in team
22. Back to the drawing board
23. Paradigm shift
24. Elephant in the room
25. Raise the bar
26. Drill down
27. Best thing since sliced bread
28. Deep dive
29. Skin in the game
30. Reach out
31. Touch base
32. Play hardball
33. Don’t reinvent the wheel
34. Kept in the loop
35. The bottom line
36. Down the road
37. I’ll loop you in
38. Hit the nail on the head
39. ASAP
40. Team player
* What year is this? These are all 30 years old at least. We need fresh cliches! Go hammer some out.
* Is there anyone still alive who was here before there was sliced bread?
* As lists of cliches go, this dog can’t hunt.
* How ’bout if we stick a pin in it?
* Believing people will stop using these is just blue-sky thinking.
* Sorry, but I don’t have a horse in this race.