I hear “cut to the chase” very frequently, is that an example? What other common expressions from movies/shows are there that people never actually say?

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  2. i thought lol and lmao were internet only before bebo and myspace…then facebook changed it all for a whole load of people…especially the pronounciation

  4. I’ve never heard anyone use “bless your heart” outside of referencing what it means on the internet, and I grew up down south.

    edit: so apparently its said elsewhere in the south, but i grew up in Charlotte and never heard it.

  5. I’m reading everyone’s answers and I guess I’m the only one who uses out of date terminology lol.
    I say cut to the chase with close friends or subordinate coworkers explains things. I say howdy frequently, bless your heart (usually in the sarcastic way) and I preface things I say sometimes with “Look,”

  6. In Texas we don’t say “Howdy” all the time, but we do say Y’all! Sometimes we can even greet each other with “Hola” or “Que tal!”

  8. All those things in mainstream movies are said by someone, so that’s why they are in movies, so you are always going to get a yes answer.

    The more unusual settings might use things you don’t hear a lot – like prison slang, gang slang, or expressions from other non-mainstream places.

  10. How about things like “you’ll hear from my lawyer” and how they’re going to sue people to the left and right? Does everyone know someone that said stuff like that or is it not as common as you hear in movies? I’m guessing everyone is not having arguments that require you do sue people but you really get the impression that it’s how you settle any type of dispute in the US 😁

  11. My zoomer sisters started saying “what in tarnation” to each other ironically as teenagers but when the joke wore off they kept saying it anyway, completely unironically. They’re in their 20s now

  12. “Don’t put the pumpernickel in the whiskey before the cat’s had a good lick o’ the toenail.”

    Never used in real life.

  13. “Pardon me” when you didn’t hear or understand someone correctly the first time. People usually just say “what” or “huh”.

  14. Those expressions were once used quite a bit, then fell out of common use. Now I’m pretty much the only person who says them.

  15. Nobody ever says, “we’ve got company” when someone they don’t want to see is there.

    Nobody ever says, “you just don’t get it, do ‘ya?”

  16. This is more of a meme, but in my years of working I have yet to receive a message that begins with “Per my last email”

  18. > What other common expressions from movies/shows are there that people never actually say?

    Literally nothing comes to mind. I can’t think of an instance where I’ve heard something commonly said in a TV series and I’m like, “Nobody says that!”

  19. If you got into a cab and said “follow that car!” the driver would almost certainly kick you out.

  22. Apparently it’s, ‘Don’t punch a gift horse in the mouth’ I still can’t believe I used this expression like a dozen times in my life and NO ONE corrected me. I heard this from some jaded old nurse when I was in nursing school like 15 years ago and just thought that was how the expression was said.

  23. Telling your enemy “we’re not so different”. An overused phrase in movies that always makes me chuckle and shake my head.

  25. Prefacing a statement of the obvious with a sarcastic, “Newsflash…” happens in TV/movies all the time, but never in real life. Same with “Hey, Einstein…”, or “Guess what:…” Or, when a character doesn’t know something obvious, a mildly annoyed, “Where’ve you been!?”

    No one says any of that in real life. Because, in real life, there’s no need to catch the audience up with exposition.

  26. “Over yonder.” I’ve heard it but rarely. I guess its rarity depends on what area you live in

  27. “scoop” in relation to a news story. I’ve worked in the news since the 90s. Nobody has ever said that, ever, to anyone, in a newsroom nor by a reporter to anyone else. But not only is it said on tv, people who don’t work in the industry seem to think it’s a real word we say, and suddenly everyone uses the word when conversations start about my line of work.

    If I ever heard “what’s the scoop” ever at work, I’d ask that person to be fired.

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