Phrases that make you want to slap people in the face?

[notnearlythereyet]

Mine is ‘Riddle me this’. What’s yours?

Thought of another one.

People saying they're going 'clubbing'.

Drives me absolutely nuts. You're going out for the evening, not beating baby seals over the head. --At least, I hope you're not...

Food related - as PP have said , dirty , cheeky but the worst imo is smashed potatoes / avocados/ carrots
In shops pubs when people say to the staff 'can I get' NO ! you can ask for and if you pay I will give it to you .
As PP said Deplane , except where I work they debox ( unpack to you and me ) their stuff .
The first time I heard this someone said "can you tell me where the debox room is" , I not got a clue where or what he was talking about !

An old colleague, when asked for specific information, especially when something time critical was dependent upon that information, would answer 'TBC'. Every single time.

That's nice (and they were a very nice person and extremely good at their job), but what was wrong with saying 'I'll find out and let you know by x time/date'? or 'I don't know, ask y in Accounts' if they didn't want to do it themselves?

Food being described as “to die for”.

“Fabulous” bring used for anything.

“Let’s circle back” - I don’t think you need to clarify whether you’re (metaphorically) going back via a circular route or in a straight line. You can just go back.

“Flabbergasted” when used to mean “faintly surprised but I want to be dramatic about it”.

Apologies to the pp who cited “It is what it is”, though - I say this a lot and find it weirdly useful 😁

"I don't mean to be a bitch but....."

Yes you do

Also when people moan at length about something and then say “ RANT OVER” in an overly aggressive fake-cheerful way at the end. It probably isn’t over - you’re probably going to continue to drone on about it through a series of replies to the post you made whilst blatantly fishing for “u ok hun?”s

There are a fair few things mentioned on this thread that I regularly say, but I'm thinking I'm probably not the only one!

Brexit means Brexit
Will of the people
You lost, get over it
There will be adequate food

Where adult is used as a verb - "I don't feel like adulting today." Is my most loathed phrase, closely followed by-
Any phrase where protein is inserted instead of fish/chicken/red meat.
Sorry not sorry.
This, so much this.
And I turned around and said...and she turned around and said...just stand still and frigging talk face to face!

Shaking with rage. I guarantee you're not shaking with rage. Just shut up.

Yes ,food related, cheeky,dirty!

It Is what it Is

Oh my day's...

IMO the upward inflection thing started ages ago, when so many kids of dds' sort of age were addicted to Neighbours. It spread slowly at first but now it's like the Black Death - the infection is everywhere.

Something that AFAIK used to be a regional thing, fair enough, but now has Black Death syndrome, is 'it needs cleaned' or 'it needs registered' etc. NO!
It needs cleaning, or it needs TO BE registered.

'it needs cleaned' or 'it needs registered'

I think this is probably a coloquilism, I thought everyone sounded really odd when I moved from Scotland and people said 'it needs cleaning' etc.

I find it really amusing when people have a rant about something they are really fuming about and then say “ RANT OVER”. I don't find it annoying just funny.

A red lip. What, there are not two lips?
Smashed it. Argggghhh
Draws instead of drawers.
Payed instead of paid, written down.

Nibbly bits. Eats.

Wow, just wow.
Yay.

'it needs cleaned' or 'it needs registered'

This is definitely a Scottish thing, I've lived in Scotland for 20+ years and it still drives me mad.

"Box Set". It's a TV series.
Also "bingeing on box sets". Yuk.

'Give your head a wobble'. Fuck off...
'Safe to say' drives me right off the edge

Howling

Automatically award them chav status with a low iq

This is a written one, not spoken, but people using 'resigned' instead of 're-signed'. A sport I follow is coming to the end of the season and I keep seeing posts on Facebook, Twitter etc asking if certain players will be 'resigned' by their teams.

Anything. Any. phrase. at. all. that my boss utters...

"Passed away."

Fucking despise it. Just say "died". It's especially grating from educated people who would not normally use euphemisms.

When you do something & someone says "what are you like"? in a tone that suggests they think what you done is silly/stupid