Popular phrases / sayings you find inaccurate or just don't like

[SlowlyLosingWeight]

For me there are two main ones:

“There’s always somebody worse off than yourself”. Yes that may well be true Linda, but excuse me for not skipping joyfully from here to San Francisco because so and so’s Auntie’s, Sister’s, Godmother’s Cousin has got problems more depressing than mine. Don’t get me wrong I’m sorry for them but it doesn’t make me feel any better about my own shit. It isn’t a fucking competition.

“Money doesn’t make you happy”. There are absolutely things more important than money. Loved ones and health of course. But let’s be honest... I’d rather cry in a Lamborghini.

Polite notice is often worded that way and coloured in ways that at first glance it looks like a police notice

"what's for you won't go by you". Doesn't really make sense because if I don't get something obviously it isn't mine, and it presumes there's some sort of pretetermined list of things that are mine... so I suppose that includes that whole getting hit by a car as a kid thing leaving me with a wonky leg? Brilliant. Wouldn't have wanted to miss that!

My neighbour who, when referring to he children, dog, husband, always prefaces the name with "our" e.g. "our Sally", "our Tony". Small thing I know but intensely annoying.

"ducks in a row" and "PJs" (ok the p-word is not really a phrase, but I don't care)

Hate them both beyond measure. All because of MN and the voice I it is said in.

Don't know of somebody has already said this but the American saying ' I could care less' How does that make sense??!
if you COULD care less then you obviously do care more about it than other things so you're saying the opposite of what you mean! , I COULDNT care less makes sense!
I get in quite a rage about this one.

I agree so much with the PP who said 'it is what it is'
Well of course it bloody is! Otherwise it is what is isn’t and that’s not possible. Arghhhhh.

I admit I do like "it is what it is" because I have a habit of catastrophising things and it can stop me doing that so badly.

“It is what it is” is in danger of becoming the new “we are where we are”.

As everybody who has heard this phrase at work should realise, “we are where we are” is code for, “I fucked up but I can’t bring myself to admit it. That is why I am trotting out this meaningless phrase, in order to (1) try to make the responsibility collective, (2) attempt to shut down any questions about how and why I fucked up...so petty and backward looking! and (3) present myself in a statesmanlike light, focused on the future.”

Used by men 90% of the time. Funny, that.

Also, whenever I hear anybody saying “suited and booted”, I immediately think, “you are a fuckwit who likes the sound of your own voice”.

Those of you who know “somewhen” - where are you from? Sussex by any chance?

"I'm shook"

"Woke"

I'm from Dorset Tami - it's used frequently there.

"need gone" (in terms of selling stuff on facebook and the like.)

"I am so OCD..." "I'm a bit OCD"

NO. OCD is not a verb. It's something you HAVE, not something you ARE.

Unless you are in fact the literal, physical representation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder taken human shape in which case you're a dick and either way I don't like you.

Play it by ear. Used to mean something entirely different to being able to play music by ear.

Food of the Gods

Just overdone.

BertrandRussell followed very closely by 'cooked to perfection' as far as I am concerned.

Another 'positive thinking' one that gets to me is 'you're in control of your own happiness/destiny' etc etc. I understand the principle behind it and I do believe in always trying to make the best of a bad situation, or not allowing what others say/do to affect you. Quite often the way it is said implies that you simply aren't trying hard enough to be happy, even if a sea of shitness is surrounding you. You're not in control of everything, and you can't just think seh your

The irony of my username is not lost on me.

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...and you can't just think yourself happy if, say, you didn't get the job that you wanted. It's just a patronising way of saying 'shut up and stop wallowing'. I'd rather someone just told me that!

You/we/they/ Smashed it ! Gets right on my wick It is all over TV like a rash and it doesn't mean anything.

The phrase "it gives me the rage" (or "it makes my teeth itch" or similar) grates with me in reference to perceived language errors. (sorry, to those who have used it on this thread ).

Every week, I see on MN "it's would HAVE not would OF - it gives me the rage!!". Really? a common understandable error (transcribing "would've" from speech) actually makes you so cross? It's not that big a deal on a chat thread. (If newspaper editors allowed it in their articles you might have a point).

"Fed is best" - as though not feeding a baby was also a viable option.
Also "happy mum happy baby" - not necessarily!

"Beautiful inside and out"
This has become very popular and I want to know how do you know a person is beautiful inside?

'Money can't buy happiness" no, but it can put a good deposit on it!

Not a saying but I HATE it when morons on Towie and suchlike saying generally when they mean genuinely! As in ' I generally like her as a person' 🤔

When someone is recounting a discussion and says "then he turned around and said.....so then I turned around and said...."
Did they start off with their backs to eachother?? Weren't they feeling dizzy with all this turning around??!

"Respect has to be earned." Nope. The default position should be to respect everyone unless they give you cause to lose respect.

"Spitting feathers" when used incorrectly to mean 'annoyed'. It means 'thirsty'. Think about it. Did you take a bite of a pheasant or something? It's become so widespread though that 'annoyed' is almost an alternative meaning.

"Fine toothcomb" with the emphasis on 'tooth'. It's a fine tooth[ed] comb [equal emphasis] - a comb with fine teeth not a comb to use on your teeth.

You're all saying it now aren't you?