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    11/22/2023 8:32 am  #1

    glatt
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    Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot

    Not so much a word, but a phrase:

    "Lean in" to something meaning to embrace or accept a challenge. To persevere in spite of a difficulty.  I don't know why, but this phrase irritates me. I have a feeling that Brene Brown popularized it fairly recently, because I think I've heard her say it and I've been noticing it a lot lately.  It's a little vague, and gives an impression of something without actually saying anything.  I get this mental image of a person actually leaning in to a conversation people are having in order to eavesdrop on it. The term distracts me.  There are so many different words you can use.  I wouldn't mind never hearing it again.

     

    11/22/2023 8:41 am  #2

    glatt
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    Re: Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot

    OK I answered my own question.  The term took off in 2013 when Sheryl Sandberg, a CEO, wrote a book about women being assertive in the workplace called Lean In.

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    11/22/2023 12:34 pm  #3

    Diaphone Jim
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    Re: Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot

    I have a phrase, too, but first: What happened to the rest of this subject? With all the previous words?
    It has been around for a long time I thought, but this is "new".
    A search for "words that need" comes up empty.

     

    11/22/2023 12:38 pm  #4

    Diaphone Jim
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    Re: Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot

    Now I found monster's similar question down in Meta.
    Weird.

     

    11/22/2023 2:10 pm  #5

    Flint
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    Re: Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot

    I have a new one, not a word but a phrase.

    "Let's goooooo!" ... (when a good thing happens in youtube about a video game)

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    eta: and yes, the original thread, started by me, has been disappeared. I can't find it anywhere, it's gone
     

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    11/22/2023 4:48 pm  #6

    monster
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    Re: Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot

    yeah mine's not a word either but I am so over IYKYK already.  bang bang.

    The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
     

    11/23/2023 11:55 am  #7

    Diaphone Jim
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    Re: Words that need to be taken behind the woodshed and shot

    So it looks like undertoad strikes from the grave.

    Phrase to be shot:
    "And make sure it never happens again."
    Used mainly by politicians and news folk. Has it ever worked?

    Last edited by Diaphone Jim (11/23/2023 11:56 am)

     

     

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