Phrases you can't stand for no apparent reason

[Thisnamechanger]

I know this comes up fairly often but I feel like we've not had one for a while...

My top ones at present:

Cutesy/cosy phrases used about adults e.g. (spotted on MN) "why were they in the garden at 2am anyway? Surely they'd be tucked up in bed and fast asleep."

Being 'helped to' re. food/drink. e.g. "she helped herself to the last of the champagne"

"tucking in" re. food.

Tabloid favourite here "tipping the scale at".

What makes your brain itch?

Tasty
Yum/yummers/yummo
Hearty
Moreish
Titbit
Broth

CROTCH FRUIT - Hahahaha! never heard that before and will attempt to shoehorn it into a conversation now.

Yum yum
Tasty
Both these words used by Kid Cudi in what would have been an otherwise quite nice song. He goes on to whisper "Thank you" at the end.

I know when someone says “ No offense but..” means they are going to say something offensive. I want to punch them.

Using the words “lil man” when describing a small male child. Using
“lil” to describe anything.

I am interested in crotch fruit. Hope to work that into a sentence soon!

Boasts, as in estate agent speak. The house boasts a large conservatory. Why not just say has?

And why do so many posters on here always head somewhere? Why don’t they just go?

#hashtags
#especiallyonesthataredifficulttoread
#whataretheyfor
#isittwitterrelated
#sonaff
#andcheesy

Being mugged off or any derivation of it
Makes me irrationally angry

And sorry because I've seen it a lot on this thread but "what does that even mean?" When the contextual meaning is actually obvious but someone doesn't like the use or it's a colloquialisms that is ridiculous but widely used

It's become another phrase for "that doesn't make sense " ....sense is one thing but the meaning is contextually obvious

While we're on estate agent speak, 'laid to lawn', and 'to' instead of 'on' the ground/first floor. And 'reception rooms', often shortened by homeowners to 'receptions'. You are neither Downton Abbey nor an office.

'Get a shower'. Which doesn't even appear to be one of the American- or Australianisms much derided on here (oh, and I detest linguistic snobbery too. Language changes, variants get mixed as cultures become more international. Live with it. Someone will now come along saying they hate 'Live with it').

'At the end of the day...'

Of an evening. Instead on in the evening/morning etc

People ordering drinks/food.. "can I get.... and can I also get... " really dislike that one!! No you can't GET it

Veggies. It's vegetables. Let's not say "veggies" makes me want to vomit!

Suited and booted.

I hate it.

'in rented accommoadtion', even worse 'in rented'. Implication - born of the UK's dreadful and, as we are now seeing, unsustainable 'property ladder' culture - that a rented home is not a proper home. That'll have to change.

Estate agent / property speak: can somebody tell me what an 'architect-designed' house is?

In my naivety, I assumed all houses were designed by architects until I cam across this phrase.

I hate 'I'm not being funny but ....'. Doesn't make sense because people never follow it with something that could be mistaken for being funny. Also 'physically sick'. There is only one way to vomit and that is physically. I have no idea what virtue signalling means.

I've seen several pieces of tat on sale in the run up to Christmas with an irritating pun on 'begin/be gin' - as in, "Let the fun be gin".

The "pun" doesn't even make sense and I'm sick of hearing about gin.

Agree with the 'hey ho' comment- manages to be insipid and passive aggressive at the same time.
Hate hate hate it.

Fell pregnant. Uuurgh.

And 'haters'. I'm not a 'hater', I just think you, specifically, are a twat.

Nana, Nan or Nanny (sorry!)

A red lip. As in, 'this dress would go well with a red lip'. Just the one,eh?

Similarly, a black trouser. I always imagine someone ramming both legs into one giant trouser leg and entering a sack race.

Rocking a red lip

A trouser

A jean

A piece of clothing

I work in an office with a fair amount of people in their early-mid twenties... lovely as they are, I often hear sentences started with.... 'not gonna lie.... it was amazing...' - eh? I didn't assume you were going to lie?

The other one I often hear is 'legit' for example 'it's legit snowing outside'.

Gahhhhh, it's complete nonsense!

Oh and 'got caught pregnant'. Or 'i didnt catch pregnant this month'

And literally used wrong. I literally died. I literally knocked his head off. She literally jumped a mile

"That's a lovely plate of food"



Every sentence starting with 'So....'

'Nip it in the bud' used to describe behaviour that has been going on for YEARS.

I’ve found my people

So many phrases piss me off.
‘Out for noms with this one.’ Then the inevitable photo of gifts displayed and ‘boy did good’, or an engagement ring etc and ‘so this happened’

At work it’s ‘going forward’ - where else are we going, we don’t have a fecking time machine.

My all time worst though is ‘we have to stop working in silos’ ie our own little jobs/boxes - it’s said all the bloody time where I work but never with any solutions on how to stop that practice. I have noticed a correlation between the utterance of the word ‘silo’ and the delivery of the sessions tea/coffee/lunch - it’s almost code for ‘I have nothing further of any note but feel I have to say something so we can finally get a break’.