I Am Over It

Sometimes, when I'm in a crabby mood, I'll read a turn of phrase and think, "UGH! I am SO OVER this phrase in mystery fiction!"

Does that ever happen to you?

What phrases are grating your nerves lately?

Mine: "[Some subject, often a dead person's arms or legs, or buildings against a sky] were bent at impossible angles."

Comments

[sarahlynn.blogspot.com]

I once read a novel wherein every single character said the s/he was "ass deep in alligators" at least once. Often more than once. I kinda wanted to throw the book across the room then go stomp on it. But more than that I wanted to know whodunit and how and why. So I just kept reading.

[J.L. Powers]

Sometimes when I'm reading books, I get annoyed by the stock phrases they use. I stopped reading Harry Potter after Book 5 because I was so sick of how everybody said something "bracingly," as in, "'Let's go have breakfast,' Hermoine said bracingly." I especially got annoyed because usually the person wasn't really saying something BRACINGLY, they were just saying it. AARGH.

And while I liked all the Twilight novels (slap me, okay, but I did!), I got sick of how every single character rolled their eyes.

[J.L. Powers]

And by rolling their eyes, I mean all the time. On every other page. How often do you see real-life people (besides teenagers) rolling their eyes? And frankly, I've never seen a teenager do it either!