What’s the Most Annoying Phrase You Hear?

I’ve written a few times about the results of Marist College polls of the most annoying conversational word or phrase – which are really nonwords – to about 1,000 US residents.  Then just the other day I saw the 2022 results of the same poll.  Here’s how they compare:

2011	2014	2022
Whatever	Whatever	Woke
Like	Like	Whatever
You know	Literally	It is what it is
Just sayin	Awesome	Like
Seriously	With all due respect	You know

I’m sure they missed some; is there a word or phrase that really gets to you?  If so, please share it in a comment…

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Death on Broadway

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