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To be annoyed when people say ....

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Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 14:22

low key ? For example someone says " does this top not low key go with these jeans" it seems to be used all the time now. Maybe annoyed is not the right word but it's irritating 🤣 . Light-hearted post really. Are there any sayings that seem to be "trending" that annoys you ?

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TorroFerney · 12/02/2025 15:33

Verv · 12/02/2025 14:59

subtly / quite / quietly / sort of / not in a way that you regularly reference.

Its an annoying and nebulous phrase.

and as a previous poster added hard no, im adding hard agree - drives me nuts.

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Nebulous is an excellent word, we should all be using it more , along with purview and wheelhouse . Like others have noted heard low key used like that but I have middle aged colleagues and my teenager doesn’t use odd language well not in front of me.

tobee · 12/02/2025 15:30

Slightly different maybe, but have you noticed that everyone is "welcoming a baby" or they "welcomed their first baby in 2021" etc in news articles? Does anyone say that in real life? Why can't they just say "had a baby"? It isn’t offensive, is it?

Seems to have replaced the overused term in the msm when everyone was a "national treasure". Although now though everything is "iconic". 🙄

Jertzy · 12/02/2025 15:28

"Reach out" should only be used if you're about to touch faith!

I dislike anything "ready".
"Wedding ready", "Holiday Ready", or of course the infamous advert "Beach body ready"!

"Oven ready" was probably the only acceptable usage until it was used to describe a political matter!

Cherrysoup · 12/02/2025 15:28

HelenaWaiting · 12/02/2025 14:27

Allyship. Drives me up the wall. The word is allegiance.

We had this during an equalities assembly last week. I was genuinely confused, thinking it was a colleague's honest mistake and thinking 'How embarrassing for her!'

butterpuffed · 12/02/2025 15:27

People saying something gives them them the ick.

Posters ending a sentence with , no?

treesandsun · 12/02/2025 15:26

If you know you know - eugh just fuck off

denhaag · 12/02/2025 15:24

Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 15:22

Yes !

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OK, I'm gonna leave you with your turning/turned and low key.
I seem to be well able to communicate with most people 😁

OhCrumbsWhereNow · 12/02/2025 15:24

DD (15) has a whole load of them that also often make no sense...

  1. aesthetic.. 'I want my room aesthetic', 'that top is really aesthetic'

  2. "I'm not gonna lie" - arrrghhh

  3. "From the gecko"... I think this is supposed to be 'get go' which is still annoying.

  4. "I could care less" - you mean you couldN'T care less?

  5. I writ.. - you mean 'I wrote'? Or are you a time traveller from the 1500s?

tobee · 12/02/2025 15:24

stayathomer · 12/02/2025 15:14

Something dropped last night (eg song, album)

Yes it gives a very low key vibe

MonetWaterlilies · 12/02/2025 15:23

'Carve a career'. What does that actually mean??

stayathomer · 12/02/2025 15:22

‘Turned around’ is just a saying though- if someone said someone was driving them up the wall would you ask in what car?

Hwi · 12/02/2025 15:22

Teenage speak - they will grow out of it!

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Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 15:22

denhaag · 12/02/2025 15:21

Do they?
In what context?
"I answered the door, the postman asked my name and I turned around and said Den Haag"...like that?

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Yes !

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Ddakji · 12/02/2025 15:21

Never come across low key before (London). Will ask 15 yo DD about it when she gets home.

PointsSouth · 12/02/2025 15:21

"'No' is a complete sentence."

Well, grammatically speaking, it's not. There's no finite verb.

But if you mean 'the word no conveys everything necessary' - that's not always true either. If it's 'no' to sex, then that 'no' is all you need. But if it's 'no' to, say, a proposal of marriage, then it would probably be polite and reasonable to give the other person a bit more to go on.

What really pisses me off about the phrase, though, is the implication that only full sentences convey meaning, so that if you consider 'no' a full sentence, it carries some kind of authority which it wouldn't have just as a word.

Bollocks. And 'bollocks' in this case is a full paragraph with footnotes and a glossary at the back.

denhaag · 12/02/2025 15:21

Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 15:18

Yes it that instance you physically turned around because they were behind you but people use that saying just to describe that they responded in general .

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Do they?
In what context?
"I answered the door, the postman asked my name and I turned around and said Den Haag"...like that?

Zimunya · 12/02/2025 15:20

One I see all the time in the UK is "bin collections". But the bin is not collected - only the contents. The bin is left behind for you to drag back in the rain.

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 12/02/2025 15:19

billycat321 · 12/02/2025 15:15

Agree with 'so' at the start of a sentence
also hate 'wine o'clock' and 'going forward'.

I love "going forward" when I'm trying to pretend I know what I'm talking about in work scenarios 😅

denhaag · 12/02/2025 15:19

Confused30somethings · 12/02/2025 15:16

Eh? If someone 'turned around and said' then that suggests they were turning around when they said it......

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If I wanted to describe that I was talking as I was turning then I would say "as I was turning around I said" - turned is the past tense of turn ie. I turned and then I spoke.
Turning is active - happening at the time.

Bluevelvetsofa · 12/02/2025 15:19

‘In all honesty’ annoys me, just as ‘not gonna lie’ does.

I thought that ‘a lot’ was still two words.

I haven’t heard low key in the context mentioned, but you learn something new every day.

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Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 15:18

denhaag · 12/02/2025 15:16

I was in the supermarket, someone was pushing into me with their trolley, so I turned around and asked them not to.

The point of turning around was to address the person behind me.

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Yes it that instance you physically turned around because they were behind you but people use that saying just to describe that they responded in general .

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BrainWontWorkAnymore · 12/02/2025 15:18

I literally died. Did you really?
I literally nearly died laughing. Eh?!
I gave 110% or 200%. I agree 200%. No, you didn’t.

Rose889 · 12/02/2025 15:17

"Reach out" instead of "get in touch with"

Onlyonekenobe · 12/02/2025 15:17

HelenaWaiting · 12/02/2025 14:27

Allyship. Drives me up the wall. The word is allegiance.

Allyship is different from allegiance. There's no element of loyalty to allyship, just supportive friendship. Allegiance is following loyally, suspending one's own beliefs.

Nothatgingerpirate · 12/02/2025 15:17

Bumcake · 12/02/2025 15:12

What does it add? ‘I said’ means just the same thing.

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It adds bullshit, probably 😂
Maybe a sense of importance.