Get Over Yourself
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
I thought it funny that while doing a search on the phrase “get over yourself,” I should stumble onto this current pop group who have a single called, what else, but “Get Over Yourself.”
This phrase became really popular during the 80s, and for me, I first heard it while working at the Zoo Crew at Disney World. Most of the male Zoo Crew members (Zoo Crew referred to anyone working as a Disney entertainer) were gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but “Get over yourself,” tended to be their mantra, and soon I started hearing it everywhere.
Basically, this phrase means that you aren’t the center of the universe (hate to break it to you) and so deal with it. Another oldie but goodie (pre-80s of course) is “He’s too big for his britches.”
While searching, I also found this article entitled (you guessed it) “Get Over Yourself:”
Certainly there are some people who damage their prospects because they have low confidence, but those who have too much self-belief appear much more common. On a daily basis I - and I’m sure many of my readers - interact with people who make it clear they have an extremely high-regard for their own talents. In short, we’ve compensated for the apparently small problem of low self-esteem by becoming arrogant. Society’s message is that self-belief is an absolute good, so many feel that arrogance is justified.
So go on now and Get Over Yourself already!
The word “excellent,” usually pronounced, “ex-cell-ent,” pretty much 
Okay, like, how many times do you notice, like, when you talk, you, like, use the word “like” a lot?
In the 70s, “Man” was the term used to address people. For example, “Pass me a beer, Man” or “Cool, Man.”
The first time I heard the word “awesome” used it was by a surfer from California. Now, I have lived in Florida all my life, and we tend to be on the slow end of trends down here. So, I really hadn’t heard anyone use this word until he kept saying it, and I finally had to ask him what the deal was.