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.

Oh AND.

"I ain't gonna lie..."

So your default position would be to lie?

I've always interpreted generally liking someone as meaning just that. I would say it about someone who perhaps annoyed me sonetimes but was ok on the whole. I would not think someone meant genuinely if they said generally in this context.

"No brainer" hate it!

"Cheap as chips"

"Pop of colour"

"Build a bridge" (and get over it)

Always have an urge to slap someone if I hear these.

'Everything happens for a reason' though i must say i don't think i've ever heard this in real life. It is sort of true, if the reason is that life is sometimes randomly shit, and we are mammals with all that implies in terms of weakness, disease and urges. But it isn't used like that. If it ever is.

StrangLookingParasite

I dont pick up a Biro or Kleenex , I pick up a pen or tissue . ( may be its just me .
I have a work mate who always called his lap top his Dell , ie my Dell needs charging , then about 3 months ago he got a replacement , it is a HP but he still says he is going to plug his Dell in to charge out of habit

the use of my to say when people like something... 'I love my 80s disco music', 'I like my thrash metal'

Or random ds in words, like dressing gownd, chimdey, but that might be a local thing

Oh and I hate, hate, hate it when people say 'almost exactly'

what time is it?
almost exactly ten to seven
almost ten to seven or exactly ten to seven - aaarrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!

@AlrightBabby the use of my to say when people like something... 'I love my 80s disco music', 'I like my thrash metal'

Yes! It's as if they think they're the only special enlightened ones for liking tomatoes or boyzone or watching lame American tv dramas For The People is not on my tv right this second

"My bad"
"Pissed" when you're confusing me into thinking you're drunk not annoyed.
"Literally" when used to mean something metaphorical or exaggerated but definitely not literally.

A local one that mildly grates is "overlaid" instead of overslept. It suggests to me that you were late because you were just lying in bed having a lie in rather than actually sleeping too long.

I hate the misuse of the word literally. A colleague finished a call with a sigh then told me the customer had "literally" just bitten her head off. No he didn't, he got cross and shouted at her a bit, her head wasn't literally rolling around on the floor having just been bitten off via BT phome lines.

You win some, you lose some
It is what it is
There's plenty more fish in the sea
I was never any good at Maths
Get your ducks in order

Almost unique/virtually unique/quite unique

It's either unique or it isn't ffs.

I couldn't care less, to me, implies that you care so little about whatever it is that there's no further down the care scale to go.

I could care less implies you are some rungs up that scale so you could care less so you have some cares about it already!

I also hate misuse of the word "literally" - I literally died. No you did not

I too find the usage of 'I could care less' confusing. Because it is always used in the context where a Brit would say 'I couldn’t care less'.

Angie I worked as a housekeeper in a New Zealand hotel when I was travelling and they found it hilarious that I called the vacuum a Hoover! They absolutely agree with you, and I can see why.

I’ll admit to using and quite liking 'it is what it is'. I find it helpful to keep things in perspective.

Fussychica yes! That's another one..

'These ones'

It’ll happen when you least expect it.
About anything you are waiting for. Used to drive me insane when I was TTC

My gran used to say
You can’t keep your cake and eat it, so I was never confused about it.
I used to hate the misuse of literally till my teen daughter started doing it, now I find it endearing.

"Oh this baby has been here before"
Yes in the form of a bloody sperm Susan.

Every Pilates instructor I know has failed to appreciate that the singular of vertebrae is vertebra. “Roll up one vertebrae at a time”

Also “you have to be happy with yourself before you can be happy with someone else”. Patronising bullshit, which is not only untrue but implies if someone isn’t happy in a relationship then this is because of an issue with them.

Another vote for “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”. Stronger perhaps, but also fucking unhappy.

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Yesterday 22:19 SueDunome

'These ones'"
On Facebook? Love this one - alongside a photo? Yes I hate it too, why are they talking about the subject of the photo like that?

mostdays and stealth I've got a BSc in a science subject so I understand volume well .

Perhaps I didn't make it clear; a patient telling me that muscle weighs more than fat irritates me because it isn't true! If they said muscle is a smaller volume than fat then that is true.

But you illustrated it with 1kg of muscle weighs the same as 1kg of fat. That does not prove muscle isn't heavier than fat. 1kg of lead weighs the same as 1kg of feathers.

1kg is 1kg, it's not heavier than something which weighs the same. It's not lighter either, it weighs the same.