Here are some phrases most of use frequently and automatically without really considering how nonsensical or at least awkward they really are.
"He/She/This is nuts." Why are nuts used in this expression? When I eat nuts I don't feel like I'm particularly living on the edge. Sometimes when I eat hardboiled eggs I think, "how weird it is to be eating and enjoying a chicken embryo." One girl the other day said "Eww...I'm sorry, I just get really grossed out and nauseous when I see people eating hard-boiled eggs..." You never see people scowling and going pale because you're eating a handful of pistachios, and that is why I think this is a misguided expression.
"He's on top of his shit." When someone is being extra-responsible or efficient, we say that she's on "top of her shit." Personally, if I'm on top of my shit, I don't expect praise, I merely expect not to be institutionalized. If my shit was for any reason above me, I assume and hope I would be unconscious and in critical condition.
Furthermore, I am frequently disturbed by the number of fully grown people who say "rad," "gnarly," or worse yet, "gnar gnar." It's pathetic, repulsive, unenlightened California nonsense and the next time some guy in a business suit uses the word "gnarly" he's getting slammed in the face with a surfboard.
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