“Plethora.” Because even if you’re a smart person and are using it correctly, it makes you sound like a dumb person trying to sound smart.
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Uh-oh. Plethora’s box, once opened, cannot be closed.
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“I’m not being funny” before saying something entirely serious is always a good one.
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Anytime I hear or read the word “plethora”, I hear the voice of Howard Cosell saying “…a veritable plethora…”
I don’t know whether he ever used those exact words in a broadcast, but he was fond of such expressions.
“Plethora” was also my dad’s favorite word. It meant a lot to him.
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I love plethora, myriad, and copious.
A friend once suggested we smoke “copious amounts of marijuana,” as he reached for the tray, and everyone cracked up.
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A plethora of piñatas is acceptable.
I daresay it is on fleek. Weird flex, I know.
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What is a plethora?
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Well, I would explain, but um, it’s a lot.
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As long as ‘yeet’ gets to stick around, I’ll second the motion. 
@DukeTrout: Wasn’t ‘on fleek’ retired in 2021? 
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I’m not sure why I would be called upon to rule on this, but I would say it was retired even earlier during the pandemic. It sounds too much like something related to mucus.
For example,
“That’s so on fleek!”
…Hands them some $45 sanitizer…
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You are the official authority on youth slang for those of us still living in Michigan?
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Oh, right. Like a cousin who spent the summer in California. Since I live on the hipster coast, I am a resouce on such things.
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Curiously enough, it happened here in Detroit, not when I lived inland from EL Lay !
A plethora of piñatas is simply A Must.
Myriad manta rays, too.
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This is being intentionally obtuse. The perfectly legit reason for saying this is that people will very often give a very limited amount of time to a video or song to see if it’s amusing/impactful(!) etc. People are busy and in the course of a day will come across many many recommendations to watch a video. It’s a way of signalling that the thing that makes the video worth watching is not right at the beginning or maybe not even by the middle. I always appreciate the tip.
This is such an odd complaint to me. Duh, that’s… what the phrase is for. People, having limited time and knowledge, and often find it very useful to drill down past the nuances in order to be able to take action in complex situations. It might be dismissive of nuance and depth, which generally is a frustrating thing but the very use of the phrase says that the speaker has considered this and made a determination that those are a distraction from the thing that has the most important effect. A perfectly useful phrase.
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But it did give us this, ler.
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I often don’t appreciate it, except as an ironic warning that I should stop watching. The wait is often not worth it, and half the time there isn’t any reveal at all, aside from something like “Click here for part 2!” I also wonder if on some sites the makers don’t get paid as much if I don’t watch the whole thing, and that’s the only reason I’m being told “wait for it!”
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