Most hated phrases & management speak

Lets 'take a risk and pay the price'.

We value people who can 'flourish in ambiguity'.

 
Lets double click on that
Lets strategise (usually means how do we get out of the mess we're in)
Lets take a wholeistic view
 
suck it and see
blue sky thinking
stepping up to the plate
go 'round the houses
helicopter view
push the envelope (brown?)
 
Nothing annoys me more than when people constantly use the phrase 'in terms of'. And it's always highly educated people that use this particular phrase, possibly up to 5 or 6 times in a conversation! I think it sounds ridiculous..... In terms of what??
 
Pre-planning.....is there any other kind ?
To 'action' something. I didn't realise 'action' was a verb.
 
Some of these are incredible...

Nearly enough to make me want to drop out of society and live in a tree or something.
 
Our manager used to say "Don't treat me like a mushroom - keep me in the dark and feed me sh1t"
I wanted to kill him
 
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