“Elevate Your Elegance: 8 Everyday Phrases That Are Secretly Sabotaging Your Sophistication!”
Why not replace “It is what it is” with something that encourages reflection, like, “Let’s figure out what’s truly going on here”?
4. “I told you so.”
This is a huge one. There’s no faster way to appear smug or condescending than whipping out an “I told you so.”
Maybe you really did predict how things would turn out, but rubbing someone’s nose in their mistake or oversight is rarely a good look.
I’ve seen couples use this phrase in heated arguments—each trying to prove they had the upper hand. What it really does is create resentment.
