Ridiculous/annoying phrases that wind you up/make no sense

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I will start.

-Hate cigarettes being called fags.

-The London term, bare, referring to lots, but in reality means nothing, like bare minimum. So when they say there were BARE people at the museum, do they mean none or naked!

-Allow it fam! Another London term, where people will say that when they want something to stop. But 'allow it' surely means let it continue, haha.

-Beggars belief/isn't it meant to be it begs belief?.... someone correct me if I am wrong? ....

-boils my p#*s. Makes me feel sick thinking of a pot of urine on the stove being boiled.

-chest of draws/ chester draws. Its bloody drawers!

-the classic 'i brought it from the shop'

-my mother used to shout out Pure Filth in her Irish accent, if the house wasn't tidy. It wasn't even that bad, but she hated mess and if there was an empty glass on the table and a magazine left on the floor or a crisp wrapper, she would call the house a mess and that we (US SIBLINGS) were happy to live in PURE FILTH. Bearing in mind, the two don't exactly go together. 'LOOK AT THIS PURE FILTH! GOD FORGIVE YE!'

-Men referring to each other as Bruv. I don't mind bro, mind you.

'Caught pregnant'

@LylaLee obviously says these phrases all the time

I hate it when people say pre-warned or pre-prepared. You just prepared something. You made it ready for use. You don't need to pre make something ready for use. The very nature of the word prepare means in advance. Also, when you warn someone, you make them aware of a possible issue/danger. You're warning them. Pre-warning and pre-preparing makes no sense. It boils my piss (lol...)

”I nearly wet myself laughing”

So crude.

Living his/her best life!

However I am guilty of a few phrases posted on here 😳

Allow it fam! Another London term, where people will say that when they want something to stop. But 'allow it' surely means let it continue, haha.

Allow me a concession or for mitigating circumstances.

“And just like that - she’s three!”
the “and just like that” start to a caption irrationally winds me up!

Bom appetit! Said by my non French exDH before dinner every day. Dinner that he never cooked.

I say this and it annoys my family - gubbins. To put it into context, if I'm serving out a pasta bake, for the bits of pasta with no cheese on top, i will say "do you want any gubbins".

We are pregnant. No, you are not.

The 'hero' ingredient (in a recipe)
The 'hero' image (in a design concept)

Hero? Really? I've started hearing this more frequently recently and i hate it.

@blobby10

i hate children being referred to as 'kids' - no idea why! Kids are baby goats not baby humans and it really winds me up.

Me too. I got this across loud and clear to my son who, when the teacher called then kids, looked at her long and hard and said "We are not baby goats".

"Change their bum" instead of changing their nappy. Literally (hah!) STAND this one. I'm not sure why, I think it's the combination of geing factually incorrect combined with unnecessarily bringing the baby's bottom into things. Really crude and unnecessary.

@Whoarethegrownups not chest of drawers, but Chester draws.

'I opened the drawer
'I cleaned out my draws'

'I shit myself'
when used to mean something made someone jump or scared them.

“I was today years old when I realised…”. Grammatically it makes no sense and it really irritates me

I don’t like “ boak”. And when people say restbite instead of respite! My sister in law says it & I so want to correct her!
To be fair is said way way to much!

Too much even

Myself used instead of me.

Two times instead of twice. The word twice seems to be disappearing.

You've got this, or even worse, you got this.

The proof is in the pudding. It doesn't make sense. The proof of what is in the pudding? The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

In all honesty. Probably means the opposite.

A trouser/ nude lip/ smoky eye. Just the one then?

“Say it with my chest” yes I can see the logic of it, but dear god it’s irritating.
the “ick” gives me the ick.

Probably been said but “rip him a new one” or it’s variations so crude and awful think slightly less of anyone that says that one.

"I am loving" instead of "I love ". It seems to be a set phrase of fashion stylists.

Stop/enough already. 😝

I think what the 'last place' people mean is that, if something's lost, you might make a mental list of places to look for it, and it's always in the last place you'd [think of] to look.

Misuse of "myself", as in "myself and Jim went to the pub". No!!!! This is just excruciating, especially as people use it in the mistaken belief that it makes them sound educated.
Ditto phrases like "I am so grateful to yourselves for the job offer". Awful.