Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
how about this:


"you wouldn't believe it, she literally blew up!"
but she didn't really blow up, she just yelled.

LITERALLY is overused.
Yeah but my pet peave is a colleague who uses it differently ..

he'll say something like

'I literally just got off the phone with [so and so] about that'

when he says it, it is usally true - but I'd hope that if it wasn't true he wouldn't say it, so why does he need to add the literally