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?

Inappropriate
Schooliform
On that subject, claims that said schooliform, specifically bonkersly draconian rules, help children 'take pride in their appearance'
Pregnant to/having children to (as in 'she has three children to her ex and is pregnant to her current partner')
Self-congratulatory comments about 'instilling routines' and being 'hot on manners'

Definitely the 'we're pregnant'
Any sort of smug hashtag
Just our family unit / just our little family
Out out

I can't keep up. What is a nuclear family and why don't I like this expression even when I don't know the meaning?

{keeps writing in her English book}

Nuclear family = immediate family, just the parents and children. As opposed to extended family = including grandparents, aunts/uncles/cousins, etc.

I think it's the associationith 'nuclear' as in 'atomic'. For me it gets a bit mixed up ith the idea of the 'nuclear age' and I end up imagining some overly perfect and slightly creepy 1950s set-up.

Toofy pegs

Milky cuddles

Pacifically

I can't even

And basically when people like, literally say 'like' all the time, like yeah sort of thing.

On my last post but one - esp the use of 'installing' for 'instilling'. You sense that some people making these sorts of comments ould be quite keen on robotic, programmable children.

Already posted, but I forgot to mention the overuse of the word "amazing" and the American "awesome" drives me insane.

“Sorry to disturb you.”
No you’re not sorry, or you wouldn’t knock on my door and try to sell my some fucking crap.

@AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight YES!!! I imagined it was like in that movie where all the "housewives" are robots!!
Thank you
{writes writes}

Reaching out. What? Do you mean contact or ask for help FFS? Also hate Welsh word cwtch (for cuddle.) So cutesy and highly irritating.

Reach out - reach out to me and you won't be getting your hand back. Just phone or email. That will be fine.

Source a thing - go to the sodding shop and buy it like normal people do.

And, oddly, three ring binder. Fuck you and your oddly rigid ring counts, America. I have no idea why that pisses me off so much but it does.

Ooh, yes- lots of these. I also have an irrational hate for "invite" instead of "invitation" as in "and oh yes, I'd love to come to that meeting, please send me the invite! Eugh!!

I also silently judge people who use myself, yourself when they mean me/ I or you. It's not big and clever, just wrong. And raises my blood pressure!

'Bat shit crazy'

Shop names that think they are being clever but really, reveal their owner's stupidy. I went past a shop today for example, called 'Image In'.

Also, slightly off-piste but little signs around peoples' homes that state the obvious. 'COOK' in the kitchen, 'WASH' in the bathroom etc.

I think I have mentioned this before 'You're a star'. I like to reply 'If I'm a star, I'll stab you with my pointy bits'. I am now graduating to 'Therefore I am made from helium and hydrogen and will burn you very badly, if indeed I am a star'.

Gets my goat, but there is an apparent reason... It's stupid.

'lifestyle choice', usually in relation to being on benefits. (Actually the expression 'benefits' itself)
'Natural birth'
This one's completely irrational - people saying they 'eat' at 6.30pm/round the table as a family/alone etc, rather than 'have dinner/supper/tea/main meal of day'.

I have a few... “believe me” (I always think someone is lying if they say that). Agree with pps about “ping you an email”. No, I will send you an email. Finally, as championed by Sara Cox on Radio 2 Breakfast - “winning at life”. Absolutely can’t stand any of them!

I hate the poncy way people describe food nowadays.

On a ‘what’s for tea’? Thread recently someone described their dinner as:

Baked cod fillets in breadcrumbs
Chipped potatoes
Pea purée

So fish, chips and mushy peas then?

"Take a dim view"
"The teachers at my dc's school would take a very dim view of anyone who did that"

Of instead of have. Should of, would of, could of 🤦‍♀️

“Fair enough”

Everything ok?

🧐

How can that be possible? Ever?

Oh oh oh!

Everything happens for a reason 💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️💆🏻‍♀️

'Girl name' and 'boy name' instead of girls' and boys' name.

Any sentence with the word "niche".