Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Phrases you hate

854 replies

Lemon1111 · 05/08/2024 21:24

Mine is ‘buttery soft’…If you haven’t come across this phrase, it is mainly used when describing leggings or other clothes, but now I’ve even seen it being used to describe gold jewellery! Also butter isn't that soft…Margariney soft doesn’t have the same ring to it I suppose.. Anyone else?

OP posts:
Flightsoffancy · 12/08/2024 09:54

A myriad of.

Myriad means many, so the 'a' and 'of' are redundant. But I see it everywhere. There are myriad examples of people getting it wrong!

mewkins · 12/08/2024 09:46

Hesma · 11/08/2024 22:59

A whole nother level… used too many times on bbc olympics coverage. Nother isn’t a word FFS!!!

Me too. I think MJ used it a lot.

WickieRoy · 12/08/2024 09:39

This reply has been deleted

This post has been withdrawn at the request of the user.

I think new users on here are often surprised at the language that is allowed - traditionally that was suprise that somewhere called Mumsnet allows us to say fuck Grin but I think the use of unalive on here is same thing.

RaraRachael · 12/08/2024 09:34

The complexities o doric and English

And the famous shoe shop one - "Fit fit fits fit fit?" 😅

WhatThenEh · 12/08/2024 08:05

This reply has been deleted

This post has been withdrawn at the request of the user.

TheAverageJoanne · 12/08/2024 00:52

TigerRag · 10/08/2024 14:20

Kiddo / kiddies

Littlies. I can't stand it

TheAverageJoanne · 12/08/2024 00:48

Radarkeigh · 05/08/2024 21:34

All the trite MN stuff of which there are a million threads already.

"I didn't want to read and run"

Nobody would know if you did!

SinnerBoy · 12/08/2024 00:44

Thevelvelletes · Yesterday 20:16

The complexities o Doric and English. The fit one made me smile.

Perhaps she was asked, "Fit like, quine?" and only heard the first word?

SinnerBoy · 12/08/2024 00:42

WickieRoy · Yesterday 11:55

raw dogging is sex without a condom.

Oh! I've only seen the phrase in the last couple of weeks.

cherish123 · 11/08/2024 23:33

Date - when going out for meal with spouse. That's note a date. A date is with someone you are becoming romantically involved with

Reach out
Deep dive
Going forward

Someone else posted swim teacher (should be swimming teacher). I saw this for the first time this week. It sounds odd and grammatically incorrect.

pinkstripeycat · 11/08/2024 23:13

Anonym00se · 11/08/2024 21:18

I’ve got an idea for a “Raw Dog” challenge where they take these youngsters and have them raw dog their way through a recreated 1980’s Sunday. Nothing to do all day, nothing worth watching on the TV, your friends aren’t playing out because they’re all visiting their Nan, no tech, and all the shops are shut. They wouldn’t last two hours. Rank amateurs.

Show quote history

👏 YES! You are right!!!

pinkstripeycat · 11/08/2024 23:12

A nod to….

Princess Katherine has worn this outfit in a nod to Princess Diana

SweetBirdsong · 11/08/2024 23:02

Oh yeah 'a whole NOTHER level' is batshit annoying @Hesma 😆

Hesma · 11/08/2024 22:59

A whole nother level… used too many times on bbc olympics coverage. Nother isn’t a word FFS!!!

SweetBirdsong · 11/08/2024 22:36

Interesting how 'unalive' came about thank you @WickieRoy and @Rhaenys Smile

However I have seen a few people on here use it purely to describe someone who is dead. No reason for it on here.

It's as annoying as.......

'Reader, I married him....'

'Kindly OP........... you are an idiot staying with this man...'

(Similarly) 'Gently OP....... I think you are an absolute fool.'

'I live in a naice area.'

AND 'leave the bastard' (for the slightest little trivial thing, instead of trying to resolve things!) Hmm

Anonym00se · 11/08/2024 21:18

Auburngal · 11/08/2024 06:10

A new one - raw dogged. It’s when you fly without listening to music, watching inflight entertainment or something on your phone/tablet/laptop. I certainly can’t do that as music keeps me motivated

Plus some people who raw dog don’t even drink anything (even water) or get out of their seat. Very stupid as can cause dehydration and increase risk in DVT.

I’ve got an idea for a “Raw Dog” challenge where they take these youngsters and have them raw dog their way through a recreated 1980’s Sunday. Nothing to do all day, nothing worth watching on the TV, your friends aren’t playing out because they’re all visiting their Nan, no tech, and all the shops are shut. They wouldn’t last two hours. Rank amateurs.

mewkins · 11/08/2024 21:03

Raquelos · 05/08/2024 22:07

"Methinks" is an immediate fuck right off from me. It just conjures up the smuggest of self-satisfied wankistry, probably from a man all dressed up to go Morris dancing complete with bells on a stick. A worryingly specific reaction I know 😂

I hate methinks. I also hate not eg. Well that was a brilliant Olympics. Not.

Likewise: smug much?

(Much has had a resurgence recently on here and I hate it).

AgileGreenSeal · 11/08/2024 20:40

Here’s an Olympic themed one - using the word “medal” as a verb. Ugh 😣

Rhaenys · 11/08/2024 20:38

SweetBirdsong · 11/08/2024 20:11

'Unalive' fills me with nausea and extreme rage in equal measures! Confused Angry

Who the FUCK started using this word/made it up?!

DEAD. The word is DEAD.

'Unalive' is much worse than saying someone has 'passed.' (Which also seems to annoy people a bit!)

Show quote history

It was started on TikTok after they started taking down videos that mentioned death in them, so users had to come up with a code.

GrazingSheep · 11/08/2024 20:36

Blue lighted.

Marseillaise · 11/08/2024 20:34

"Make noise" instead of "make a noise".

Abitofalark · 11/08/2024 20:29

Law enforcement, when referring to the police.

The...community, as in 'the farming community'. Just say 'farmers', BBC.

WickieRoy · 11/08/2024 20:20

SweetBirdsong · 11/08/2024 20:11

'Unalive' fills me with nausea and extreme rage in equal measures! Confused Angry

Who the FUCK started using this word/made it up?!

DEAD. The word is DEAD.

'Unalive' is much worse than saying someone has 'passed.' (Which also seems to annoy people a bit!)

Show quote history

Unalive isn't a euphemism, it originated as a way to get around censors on social media platforms (and I believe YouTube) that ban/hide/downgrade posts that use words related to death, murder and suicide.

Thevelvelletes · 11/08/2024 20:16

RaraRachael · 11/08/2024 19:52

@Coughsweet I remember my English MiL being mortified that I'd said her granddaughter was "big". To me, that meant tall, but to her it meant overweight.

The complexities o Doric and English.
The fit one made me smile.

SweetBirdsong · 11/08/2024 20:11

banjaxedeejit · 08/08/2024 00:50

Deep dive
Unalive
Going forward

'Unalive' fills me with nausea and extreme rage in equal measures! Confused Angry

Who the FUCK started using this word/made it up?!

DEAD. The word is DEAD.

'Unalive' is much worse than saying someone has 'passed.' (Which also seems to annoy people a bit!)

Swipe left for the next trending thread