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?

@littlebillie

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.

I also hate this. Someone had a bit of a go at me when I said this to someone in real life though. 'What a rude thing to say about people fighting cancer' she said. I explained that I felt it was rude to imply that someone is a hero and a fighter if they fight cancer off, as it implies people who don't fight it off are weaker, and didn't care enough to 'fight' cancer!

We had to agree to differ. She was the type to virtue signal on facebook though, all the time! And she was into the 'shave your head for cancer' thing. Urgh!

“I’m starving” is a phrase that irks me immensely when an adult is hungry.
Really, your stomach grumbling a little is comparable to the situation of millions of people who are actually starving and malnourished I’m sure you’ll not waste away in the 20 minutes it’ll take you to walk to the shop to get your lunch.

To the moon and back.

It’s from a 24 year old children’s book Guess How Much I love You. My husband and I had .....to the moon and back. engraved on our wedding rings. Now it’s everywhere and it doesn’t seem so special. Parents fling it around in social media in every gaming sentence! Annoying!

Also when people say “Been married 2 years together 25. Just to let everyone know that they’ve been together longer than everyone else thinks.”

When you asked someone how they are and instead of saying “fine thank you or I’m well” etc they say “good thanks” Teens do it ALL the time

@todayiwin

Yes, I'm afraid "hun" is a word that I cannot stand!

Is it even a word?

xx

'So I wrote a thing...' Did you? Well good - I won't be reading it.

Spends - batshitbetty I also have a physical reaction to this. I loathe it.

On your period - I do not understand this. Surely you have your period or you have got your period. Why are you on it? it makes no sense to me at all and grates every time I read it. No one says I'm on a cold or I'm on a nosebleed.

I'm sat here. - Though I have been on Mumsnet so long and read it so often I almost read it as grammatically correct.

This thread is going to start a collective blood pressure spike! For me 'end of', 'go with' (go with me? Prince Harry? Who??) 'yourselves' when a cold caller is ringing. 'Come 'ere Babe' to the toddler with the grown up clothes in the supermarket (usually because the unfortunate child's 'unique' name is unpronounceable!)

Bear with me.
Nope, bear on your own. For some reason it makes me think of bearing down, in labour.

“Comprises of..” No!
It either “consists of” or it “comprises”. I see it in estate agents’ house details and it annoys me.
Another bugbear is “returning back”.
The definition of “return” is to come back. So they’re coming back back?
Oh, and the misuse of lay. I was “laying down”, instead of I was lying down. Unless they were laying down wine in a cellar, of course!

I don't know if this counts because it's not just the phrase, it's the phrase said by a particular person in a particular film but

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY SIMPERING "I LOOK QUITE PRETTY" IN LOVE ACTUALLY MAKES ME WANT TO PUNCH THINGS.

Here if you want to annoy yourself:

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Also I hate the word "saucy" when it's used to mean something sexual. "She sent him a saucy photo of herself" URGH. Reminds me of something from a Carry On film.

“Wouldn’t go anywhere else” at the end of a recommendation.

Just implies that your particular opinion is superior to that of anyone else’s, and if you do indeed ‘go anywhere else’ you are somehow inferior.

It’s minor, but it grates!

‘So’

Placed at the beginning of every fucking sentence by many interviewees on Radio 4 and this affliction is spreading.

‘Curated’ used to describe mundane low skilled things like putting a sandwich together or choosing stock for a hobby shop/restaurant. Ditto ‘eclectic’.

My house my rules/my children my rules

Wtf do you need so many rules for its always said so smugly

Let’s touch base mmm no thank you

It’s over/finished/ended period - an American saying but I just don’t like it

Anyone who does “air quotes” should have their fingers broken until the get the message

"Safe to say"
"Tuck in"
"Sweet treat"
No, just fuck off all of you

Haven't RTFT so may have been mentioned already, but latest corporate bollocks in my office is "thinking" (cough Agile cough)
We don't have 'methods', we have "thinking"
We can't ask people to do stuff, they have to "adopt methodology thinking"
If people refuse, they need to "flip their thinking"
We are supposed to have "project management thinking" (and its sister, PMA - Positive Management Attitude)
My thinking is it's incredibly annoying and more than a little cultish..

all the feels

adulting

referring to children as "the spawn"

"Reaching out ".....foad you vacuous millenial airhead ...aaah that's better

@ginandbearit this is for you

Hahaha brilliant !! Thank you @YouOkHun

Showing my age here but its cringeworthy when people say "my bad". What on earth is wrong with just saying my mistake ? Really grates on me.

My bad.

Bad is not a noun. What's wrong with my mistake?

How are you spelling that today? Well, today, I thought I'd try out a silent k...

Sarcastic (or other adjective) much?

Are you alright there? Yes I am fine but I also need some help.

This isn't a phrase but a word: scroat/scrote. Used to describe someone despicable. It originated with the police force, often used in The Bill. I hate it when I hear anyone (other than police), use it. To me it is extremely vulgar.

Food of the gods.