Cringe-worthy office lingo … "Thinking outside the box" ... "Giving it 110 percent" ... "Pushing the envelope." According to a new survey, more than 70 percent of us are guilty of using these cringe-worthy office lines … and the other 30 percent of us are annoyed every time we hear them!
Here are the some of the most cringe-worthy phrases used at the office (from a list of 40):
- Give 110 percent
- Think outside the box
- Hammer it out
- Heavy lifting
- Throw them under the bus
- Pushing the envelope
- Win-win situation
- Blue-sky thinking
- Synergy
- Low-hanging fruit
- Take it to the next level
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Let's ballpark this
- Run this up the flagpole
- Back to square one
- Paradigm shift
- Elephant in the room
- Raise the bar
- Drill down
- Deep dive
- Skin in the game
- Touch base
- Play hardball
- Don't reinvent the wheel
- Kept in the loop/I’ll loop you in
- The bottom line
- Team player