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Phrases you can't stand for no apparent reason

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Thisnamechanger · 18/10/2018 14:32

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?

OP posts:
AmIthatbloodycold · 19/10/2018 10:46

..and Grrrrrrrr Grin

also, "rant over", usually after some wishes washy mild complaint about something

ClinkyMonkey · 19/10/2018 10:47

'I'm good,' in response to 'how are you?' I didn't ask what sort of person you are. My DC use 'good' out of context all the time and I have to bite my tongue or risk sounding like an out of touch old relic.

Ophelialovescats · 19/10/2018 11:01

'Can I get?'

Nephrite · 19/10/2018 11:05

You can fry things in a deep fat fryer or air fryer as well as a pan

EverybodyLovesRaymond · 19/10/2018 11:18

'Making memories' makes me cringe. It's an awful, twee phrase that needs to go out of fashion quickly.

This.

AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight · 19/10/2018 11:35

Oh yes, 'just throw some ingredients in the slow cooker in the morning' to a poster who is flat out with work and dc and struggling to find time to cook. Because the slow cooker also peels and chops the veg, prepares and chops the meat or whatever.

Nephrite · 19/10/2018 12:14

You can buy ready chopped veg for a stew from Tesco and diced meat.

lastnamefirstfirstnamelast · 19/10/2018 12:38

So many that have been mentioned on here I also hate!
i also hate "spag bol" "mac n Cheese"

lastnamefirstfirstnamelast · 19/10/2018 12:39

Oh and "living my best life"

BadHairDyeDay · 19/10/2018 12:41

Anything with the word "poignant"

SuperGekkoMuscles · 19/10/2018 12:49

Fish supper. I don’t why it annoys me but it does. It’s just fish and chips.

Roast dinner and all the trimmings. Again it irritates me. As if all the ‘trimmings’ are somehow really special. It’s just veg and potato. Maybe a Yorkshire pudding. It’s just dinner.

I don’t like the tucked up in bed either.

BumDisease · 19/10/2018 13:02

Thanks to MN I now hate the word "grim". EVERYTHING is fucking "grim".

Talith · 19/10/2018 13:09

"spat my coffee out" no you didn't
"Mouth feel" *shudder
"Give your head a wobble/ wind your neck in / brainfart" just horrible
"Me time" why is it always prosecco/hot chocolate and a bubble bath. With a "glossy mag". Twee!
"A few wines"
"A meal"
Agree on many previously inc 'nourishing'

EndeavourVoyage · 19/10/2018 14:24

A friend of ours always describes his wife as going to "kick off" or well if XXXX "kicks" we'll know to it.
One day I swear I will literally kick him if he keeps comparing his wife telling him she is cross, to a Donkey.

HareandhoundsoftheBaskervilles · 19/10/2018 14:24

The exception that proves the rule - what??!

Also I’m with you OP about the cancer things. The ‘lost the battle’ bollocks. My friend died shortly after her 40th birthday. It wasn’t because she didn’t fight hard enough HmmAngry

EndeavourVoyage · 19/10/2018 14:26

Also "On a journey" Why is everyone on a journey surely it is just life itself!!

Corneliawildthing · 19/10/2018 14:33

Moving forward

Flavoursome/flavourful

The edit..... for clothes etc Shop the edit.....wtf does that mean?

TheWernethWife · 19/10/2018 14:36

Hate "Are you alright there" and starting a sentence with "So", I've been known to shout at the radio when people say it.

Tabitha005 · 19/10/2018 14:38

'Holibobs' - my current number one most-hated. I unfriend anyone on Facebook who uses it.

Ditto 'hubby' or 'hubs'.

'Little princess' - used, generally, by parents whose spawn have zero manners and ALL the entitlement.

'basically' / 'absolutely' - both overused, usually by people who either aren't listening or have completely failed to grasp the concept of what's being discussed in conversation.

All and all corporate bullshit speak: 'on the same page' / 'moving forward' / 'singing from the same hymn sheet' - so dated, so cliche, so gonna make me do a fake, rictus smile whilst thinking about punching you in the back of the head as soon as you turn around.

Expletives used as punctuation - swearing is a luxury, to be used creatively, imaginatively and with sincere gusto, not because you're a bit thick and need the 'thinking time' a machine-gunned slew of f's and c's allows you. Many people who use expletives as punctuation are entirely unaware they're doing it - which essentially renders them to just the type of mono-celled automata I would cut my own ears off rather than have to listen to.

'Like' - see above. Used indiscriminately, everywhere, sometimes by those of whom I thought better, revealing their secret habit of binge-watching TOWIE and Keeping up with the Kardashians and ingesting vernacular by osmosis. I will move county to escape friendships that become thus tainted. No excuse, ever, and should be punishable with electroshock to the tits, where every utterance gets you a fried nip until the habit is broken.

todayiwin · 19/10/2018 14:44

"Yous"

Boils my FUCKING BLOOD

fatbrows · 19/10/2018 14:46

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but 'I could care less'

IDIOT THAT MEANS YOU CARE. IT'S 'COULDN'T'

todayiwin · 19/10/2018 14:49

In one of the fb groups I follow, some people refer to their children as "crotchfruit."

My god, what FB groups are you in!?!?

DontCallMeCharlotte · 19/10/2018 14:52

PJs.

Always "PJs". Never pyjamas or nightwear or old t-shirt you wear in bed.

Always, Fucking. "PJs"

It just feels so smarmy and smug now. I am getting annoyed just seeing it there.

Yes to PJs (and the obsession on MN with being in them all the time!)

And yes to "veggies" whether it refers to vegetarians or vegetables.

But the current one that makes my skin crawl for no good reason is "batch cook". Shudder.

Jimdandy · 19/10/2018 14:56

Doing the “school run”. No you’re collected your children from school.

At the end of the day and constantly saying literally for things that did not happen.

“Over-exaggerate” there’s no such thing but it’s used often in the vernacular now.

oldwhyno · 19/10/2018 14:58

Instead of "May i have....?"

"Can I get...?"

With or without the "please", that one gets my goat.
(registered for the first time just to add that).