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Words and phrases that make your teeth itch

174 replies

Sfuandtired · 20/10/2023 19:33

I’ll start

hollibobs
smashed it
The gift that keeps on giving
Don’t mind if I do

All of those give me irrational rage! 😆

OP posts:
Puritizer · 20/10/2023 20:01

On the floor……you mean ground
Draw instead of drawer
Spends. Never heard it anywhere except mumsnet. It’s the worst. Like an adult having pocket money.
Happy Monday/Tuesday etc why??? 2nd worst phrase I hate especially when people start using it only because our mgr says it. I never respond with it. I say ‘hello’.

nancypowers1983 · 20/10/2023 20:02

Whenever someone posts, for example, a question about schools and someone pipes up: "teacher here 🙋🏻‍♀️" (or whatever profession may be related to the thread.
It always sound like this somehow makes their answer more important than anyone else's. Even if others on the thread are also in the same job, just that phrase, "such and such here 🙋🏻‍♀️" ugh

Moonshine5 · 20/10/2023 20:02

It is what it is

Houseconundrum · 20/10/2023 20:02

Words like:
Hubby
Sarnie
Sainsbows

Or when people say
Should of
Or jamp/jamped instead of jumped

wizzbitt · 20/10/2023 20:04

sunnyseed · 20/10/2023 19:59

Supper. It’s so old fashioned and uptight. If my inlaws had fish and chips for dinner mil would always refer to it as a fish and chip supper. Why? And there was more than one chip so it just sounded stupid.

I actually thought "fish supper" meant haddock and chips. My Scottish DP and his family all refer them to that. I say it too now as a result. I love a fish supper

SM4713 · 20/10/2023 20:04

Teeth itch
My bad
Recommend me ....
We was at ...
I done ....
I've got The Covit
Ask pronounced as Arks
You get me?

Puritizer · 20/10/2023 20:05

Maybe a regional thing (from NI) but we would use the singular “chip” to refer to a portion of chips.

amiold · 20/10/2023 20:05

Beangrove · 20/10/2023 19:42

My mum calls my nephew 'little 'un'. Never his name. . It gives me irrational rage.

My mam says "our little fella" about my nephew. He's not yours for a start 🤬

Inkypot · 20/10/2023 20:06

sunnyseed · 20/10/2023 19:59

Supper. It’s so old fashioned and uptight. If my inlaws had fish and chips for dinner mil would always refer to it as a fish and chip supper. Why? And there was more than one chip so it just sounded stupid.

Fish and chips is a fish supper, as in sausage supper/pizza supper/pie supper etc. Basically whatever you get from the chippy if it comes with chips it's a supper- unless it's just chips of course. Without chips is a single, i.e. single fish, single hamburger etc. This is the case everywhere in Scotland so seems standard to me. Get so thrown ordering chippies down south with the whole "cod and chips" nonsense lol (said lightheartedly before anyone jumps on me!)

CesareBorgia · 20/10/2023 20:06

y'all

Usually used on here by posters who think they are much cleverer than everyone else.

Restinpeacefavouritecoathanger · 20/10/2023 20:06

Grab and go.

Okbyethen · 20/10/2023 20:06

When Americans say 'happy new yearS!'

There's only ONE new year. Happy new year. NOT years.

Urgh.

Whatabouterry · 20/10/2023 20:06

Teeth itch
Naice

SquashPenguin · 20/10/2023 20:07

Pop of colour.

coxesorangepippin · 20/10/2023 20:08

Pet peeve

😳😳😱😱

Jeannie88 · 20/10/2023 20:08

Nibbles
Calm down
You look fat in that
Oh I didn't want to take the tablets to help me

Alltheyearround · 20/10/2023 20:10
  • Reach out - if you reach out to me I will be smacking your grubby little hand with my biggest wooden spoon. Now go away.
  • Little man (do we call baby girls little woman?? No.) makes me feel physically ill. He's 2 for god's sake.
  • Go hard or go home - oh bugger off

'Mum' addressed to me by professionals such as consultants when speaking to me about DS. I am not your mother, never have been. To my horror I did say that to a student's mum a few weeks back. Never again!!

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 20/10/2023 20:10

Going forward
Quality time
We're a team

nancypowers1983 · 20/10/2023 20:11

Poorly- brings to mind images of sickly Victorian children dressed in unflattering peach tones.

Alltheyearround · 20/10/2023 20:11

SquashPenguin · 20/10/2023 20:07

Pop of colour.

@SquashPenguin dear god. One of the worst phrases ever invented.

PeggyPiglet · 20/10/2023 20:12

TheChippendenSpook · 20/10/2023 19:38

'Make your teeth itch' it's awful... teeth can't itch.

That's kind of the point of the saying.
Your teeth can't itch. If they could, it would be unpleasant !

bombastix · 20/10/2023 20:12

Speaking personally

LeonBlack · 20/10/2023 20:13

Modern use of words like ‘curate’ as in ‘a curated ear.

And when people (women, it’s only ever women) say ‘out out’, I cringe.

PlantDoctor · 20/10/2023 20:14

Anything that ends in "sps", like "wasps", "crisps", etc. HATE the sounds for some reason 😅

Alltheyearround · 20/10/2023 20:16

bombastix · 20/10/2023 20:12

Speaking personally

Yeah, as opposed to what?

''Speaking with a god like omniscience on this....''

(Actually I do know a few men like this, one recently strongly objected to me using the term mansplaining, in fact he mansplained to me that I was thinking lazily - I just disengage after 5 mins now, nod and smile like a good woman).
FFS