We love workplace cliches, so when we stumbled across this blank verse celebrating the phrases we love to hate , we laughed out loud. Kudos Jesse Brown of the Search Engine. We salute you.

We all love to hate these phrases. To compile this list, we solicited input from Razorfish’s NY office and the response was overwhelming.  We even found an entire whiteboard map of Tactical Town, a workplace village full of these idioms, confirming perhaps that we wouldn’t feel at home without them.

After much deliberation (and many laughs), here’s our Top 15 overused business expressions:

1. At the end of the day
2. Circle back
3. On the same page
4. Boil the ocean
5. Low hanging fruit
6. Apples to apples
7. Deep dive
8. Win-win situation
9. On your plate
10. Reach out to
11. Push the envelope
12. Take this offline
13. Out-of-pocket
14. Thrown under the bus
15. Rubber hits the road

No doubt about it – these 15 are annoying. That said, they serve their purpose. Personally, we like “thrown under the bus” because when it happens there really isn’t a better way to describe how it feels.

Rather than retiring a phrase, we want to pay tribute to the ones we love. Cast your vote on the most annoying idiom that you just can’t live without.

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And in case you thought we were lying, here’s a SearchShot of Tactical Town:

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