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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:
BaronRottsSoundOfGraves · 19/10/2018 19:48

Oh God yes. Date Night and worse Play Date.

CheddarIsNotTheOnlyCheese · 19/10/2018 19:49

Front it out. Sharon in Eastenders used to say this a lot. Usually to Dennis.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 19/10/2018 19:56

Definitely 'play date '.
He/she has been hospitalised.

Accountant222 · 19/10/2018 20:00

We are pregnant, no love, only one of you is pregnant

Tangywhisco · 19/10/2018 20:18

Stakeholder, drives me up the wall. Every meeting I went to from the 80’s on used this , and I felt it dehumanised the very people we were trying to help.

Hmmalittlefishy · 19/10/2018 20:36

Agree with lots of these
Nom nom
We are pregnant
Squad goals
Take a punt - usually said on quiz shows when they are trying to pretend they don't know an answer
Making memories
Of instead of have
Cheeky fucker /fuckery CF (CF to me is cystic - I hate thsost of all and won't even open threads with this in the title. I really really can't stand it. Oh and the whole mumsnet 'zilla'. I want to slap the person on the thread who starts it saying 'groomzilla, mummy ills, cheeky fuckerzilla' Angry

Joanne721 · 19/10/2018 20:41

I super loathe "And, i`m like" "And, i was like"

I hear these every school day, as i live near a senior school

Notonyournellly · 19/10/2018 20:42

Sex words used to describe food.
Orgasmic yoghurt? NO. Food porn. Ugh.

PortiaCastis · 19/10/2018 20:42

We are pregnant.

My arse, he's not upduffed you are sunshine and you'll have to give birth he will not

SuperGekkoMuscles · 19/10/2018 20:57

Boob as a verb.

‘Boobing the baby’
‘Gave her some boob’
‘Spent all day boobing’
‘I’m just boobing him’
‘She just wants boob’

Yeah we get it, you’re breastfeeding. Great. (Yes I bf).

LavendarGreen · 19/10/2018 21:01

The thing that currently irks me is when people are describing people needing to be more honest and open, and they say they need to be more TRANSPARENT.

Transparent means see-through, like a fucking window - what clown decided to use it as a term to be more honest and open?! Angry

I know in some ways it's grammatically correct, but it really boils my piss. I have literally only heard it used in this context for the past couple of years. Never ever heard it used before that, unless someone was describing a window!

littlebillie · 19/10/2018 21:06

Thisnamechanger I also dislike the language surrounding C. If people are "fighting" it they are heroes but if they die well have they given up, sorry it really irritates. All those attention seeking "Big C" facebook loves and shares too it is incredibly insensitive and patronising.

YourVagesty · 19/10/2018 21:06

@ChaosCategorised

I've noticed that too! Where the fuck has it come from? Angry I've heard it from a Scottish person and a Bristolian so I don't think it's limited to one area.

MargaretDribble · 19/10/2018 21:09

Good, good, good.

boxcar · 19/10/2018 21:10

‘Can you please?’ instead of ‘Please can you?’ Comes across as arrogant!

batshitbetty · 19/10/2018 21:13

'Spends' (makes me physically react, I know it's dialect but still....)

'Boils my piss' (crass)

'I seen' / 'I done' (just crap grammar)

'Walk the talk' (means nothing, definitely belongs in office bullshit bingo)

batshitbetty · 19/10/2018 21:15

'New and improved' (it can either be new, or it can be improved, it can't be both 😡😡😡)

Deliphant · 19/10/2018 21:15

The phrase 'hack' to mean tip.
A baby having it's 'bum changed' .
Always hated 'play date' .

Cellardoor23 · 19/10/2018 21:17

Makes my teeth itch (Puts my teeth on edge I don't mind as much)
Date night
Spag Bol
With this one
Hubby/Missus
You know/'like'
Moving forward
Hun

batshitbetty · 19/10/2018 21:19

'L'il'/'Lil' - as in my lil princess (IT'S FUCKING LITTLE) aaaarrrrggghhhh

Also completely not connected to the thread but connected to this comment, eyelashes on sodding cars. Why do people insist on being all cutsie? If you are old enough to drive you are too old to talk in baby speak or have eyelashes on your car

Deliphant · 19/10/2018 21:22

Oh yes and I hate the phrase 'build' to mean a building project and - even worse - 'make' to mean a craft project which i came across on a tv prog about crafts.

Trippedupagain · 19/10/2018 21:39

To be fair - when it’s used as a sort of punctuation as in, ‘its a really good idea, to be fair...’ so nothing to do with fairness or anything really.
I’m not gonna lie - again just a verbal tic sort of phrase, as in ‘I’m not gonna lie, I’m just putting on my coat and going home now...’
Date night
All the trimmings
Can I make a suggestion? As a way of shutting everyone else up and getting attention, then coming out with a rubbishy bland idea.

speakout · 19/10/2018 21:42

any way, shape or form

I loathe that phrase.

boble1 · 19/10/2018 21:47

Hun

kierenthecommunity · 19/10/2018 22:04

‘Go to’ unless it’s referring to a person. As in ‘pasta and pesto is my go to mid week meal or ‘skinnies and a tee are my go to first date outfit’

And for that matter i loathe ‘skinnies’ and ‘a tee’ too

I really cringe at the word ‘tits’ even in the reclaiming the word for breastfeeders context (trust your tits!) It makes me think of DOM reading page 3