"I'm not gonna lie"

[Davros]

DD (14) says this all the time in the middle of various sentences. Is it the latest teenage vernacular or just DD and her friends or possibly just DD? It gives me the rage (inwardly). I have commented on it and she's stopped saying it quite so much but that could be because she's on school holidays at the moment. Anyone else's teens say this?

[BackforGood]

Not heard it from mine, but maybe it's from a particular show they watch ?

[ProudBadMum]

Is it like 'swear on mi nans grave'?

[Guitargirl]

Does she watch a lot of YouTube? It seems to a bit of a favourite phrase amongst YouTubers.

[Astro55]

Yeah ya get meeeee??

[fruityb]

"I swear down"

[Gallavich]

It's a really annoying teen phrase at the moment. She'll pick up a new one soon enough

[Davros]

YouTube! It must be that. It's used in this way "I don't want to go to X, I'm not gonna lie, it's not my sort of thing" or " can you pick me up? I'm not gonna lie, I don't fancy walking" etc etc

[ProudBadMum]

I'd pick you up, but I'm not going to lie, I don't want

[blue2014]

We used to say "I swear down" 20+ years ago!

[Dozer]

A mid 20s work colleague says this. Annoying.

[Guitargirl]

Try watching 10 mins of zoella and count how many times she says it .

[Davros]

It, like, has replaced "like" thank fuck!!

[MackerelOfFact]

It reminds me of Nessa in Gavin and Stacey!

[Teabagtits]

My mum says this all the time and she's mid 60s. Most of the time it doesn't even fit the sentence. She's been saying it for years

[Davros]

The welsh character in W1A kept saying "I'm not being funny or anything but ....."

[motherinferior]

Oh GOD me too with the rage. THE RAGE.

[EvilDoctorBallerinaDuck]

Mackerel thank you! I knew somebody on TV said it a lot!

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

My 16yo says it too, along with "bare" everything - "I've got bare money bruv" - it doesn't annoy me quite as much as "at the end of the day" though which really gets on my nerves.

[BigSandyBalls2015]

My 16 year old DD is driving me made with 'send me' all the bloody time. As in: "mum send me a bit of easter egg' - when I'm sitting next to her!!

And adding 'at' to sentences - "Where are my shoes at".

[Kanga1973]

My DD says the word like at least 20 times in one sentence. I know it's annoying but then embarrassing when she was talking to a careers advisor at a prospective college

[wetpebbles]

My teenager "dabs" at me, it is quite funny though!

[Dollyparton3]

Yes, every other sentence. Even funnier on text when it came through as "NGL".

Whatevs

[Davros]

Ooh, "NGL", I'll be using that in texts to DD