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Just invented a new saying and I quite like it

105 replies

MissyPants · 19/07/2025 01:06

Very random, but Just got in from work, hungry & bothered. Something annoyed me, so I said to myself, "oh shit off" and I must admit I quite like it, I will be using it in the future.
What are your new words/sayings you've invented & taken a liking to?

OP posts:
SprayWhiteDung · 19/07/2025 15:10

Probably not original, but we used to describe what our DS did when he was very little as 'helpdering' - as a portmanteau of helping and hindering, when they insist on helping you in such a way that it takes you four times as long and then you still have to re-do it afterwards!

SprayWhiteDung · 19/07/2025 15:15

kissmyfatass · 19/07/2025 07:56

Cock off.

This might be a bit niche, but there was a fantastic sketch show probably about 20 years ago called School Of Comedy, where they were all very young adults (or nearly-adults).

One of the regular sketches was a pair of South African security guards - played by Beth Rylance and Will Poulter - where they were bantering and always telling each other to 'Cock off!' !

IesuGrist1975 · 19/07/2025 15:18

UrbanOasis · 19/07/2025 09:49

We sometimes call fried eggs flat eggs because that's what our DS once called them as a small child. So not boiled or scrambled, but flat!

We did this too for the same reason 🩷

mambojambodothetango · 19/07/2025 15:24

A quote from the Old Testament I like to declare to the DC, "Begone! And bless me also".
We're not remotely religious.

Pubgarden · 19/07/2025 15:25

thenewaveragebear1983 · 19/07/2025 07:58

You’re really tickling my goat = you’re really pissing me off getting on my nerves in our house

There's a cheese called Tickle More Goats.

Decaff coffee is Cof-faux in our house.

FrodoBiggins · 19/07/2025 15:31

SprayWhiteDung · 19/07/2025 15:15

This might be a bit niche, but there was a fantastic sketch show probably about 20 years ago called School Of Comedy, where they were all very young adults (or nearly-adults).

One of the regular sketches was a pair of South African security guards - played by Beth Rylance and Will Poulter - where they were bantering and always telling each other to 'Cock off!' !

Fully!!

Jaq27 · 19/07/2025 15:31

Lasagne is ‘Julian’ in our house (after Julian Lasange)

Sweatybettyinthisheat · 19/07/2025 15:34

Dfamily have a very annoying habit of pointing something out to me instead of fixing it themselves in the time it's taken to come find me, interrupt me (I wfh), and point out the issue. E.g. Dcat has puked on kitchen floor, dishwasher/washing machine needs emptying etc.
My response, along the lines of our local train announcements: "See it, said it, sort it out yourself. Crack on!" 😉
It already feels like it's going to be a loooong summer holiday!

Cattery · 19/07/2025 15:36

When it’s cold we have a blast of the Ronan (Keating)

TripleThree · 19/07/2025 15:38

Not invented but picked up from an American TV show - bull crap.

Describes so many things, so well!

Gonksmum · 19/07/2025 15:50

With me (and caught on with my family) it's more silly pronunciations.

Eg. Container is Contaayner à la Captain Bertorelli from Allo Allo ( I lova the laaydees!).
Gap is Garrp, which comes from an ancient Monty Python sketch.
Also, accident is said accidont in a Franglais sort of way. All very silly.

MrsMoastyToasty · 19/07/2025 15:54

"You Shitened the frit outta me!" a favourite saying in our house when someone startles you.

RainbowBagels · 19/07/2025 15:57

user1496146479 · 19/07/2025 06:30

We say dunch or linner! 😂😊

I tried to make 'linner' a thing in my family when I can't be bothered to make lunch and dinner, often after a late weekend breakfast. It hasn't caught on in my household!

Pudmyboy · 19/07/2025 16:03

PlasticAcrobat · 19/07/2025 06:35

Caught myself saying that I was 'Starved to a crisp' when i was very hungry recently (my brain having merged 'starved' with 'burnt to a crisp).

I like it and want to use it in future.

I also made an effort to get 'J-Po' to catch on in my household as a term for jacket potato, but everyone' rolled their eyes and I gave up.

I like j-po! May well start to use this unless you have patented it!😂😋

muddyford · 19/07/2025 16:11

A very dear relation, now sadly dead, used to call mange tous 'flat peas' which we use now too.

FrodoBiggins · 19/07/2025 17:16

Gonksmum · 19/07/2025 15:50

With me (and caught on with my family) it's more silly pronunciations.

Eg. Container is Contaayner à la Captain Bertorelli from Allo Allo ( I lova the laaydees!).
Gap is Garrp, which comes from an ancient Monty Python sketch.
Also, accident is said accidont in a Franglais sort of way. All very silly.

Edited

Love these. We pronounce Tescos as if it were a Greek island (yes i know it's Tesco but we also add an S to all shops eg Aldis)

PinkPauline · 19/07/2025 17:30

mambojambodothetango · 19/07/2025 15:24

A quote from the Old Testament I like to declare to the DC, "Begone! And bless me also".
We're not remotely religious.

Ah I love that. Also others on the thread. Great idea OP. My DS and I like to say to each other ‘bitter as the cud’ for anything or anyone annoying (Shakespeare I think?). I love exclaiming loudly ‘shit the bed’ for anything startling or outrageous.

PinkPauline · 19/07/2025 17:37

My late DM loved saying ‘just the Bobby’s nob’ for anything that was pleasing. No idea where that came from!

mambojambodothetango · 19/07/2025 20:38

DB and I often repeat the best line from East is East, "frig off you dirty cow and wash your bastard curtains", when we're feeling annoyed with someone for being nosey.

HelloFreshly · 19/07/2025 20:43

Sheesh kebabins!

TyneTeas · 19/07/2025 20:52

Donkades

A combination of donkeys years and decades

kissmyfatass · 20/07/2025 18:23

I also use Shitting Jesus a lot

NapsAndSnacks · 20/07/2025 18:26

Thunderpants88 · 19/07/2025 05:11

Totes ma goats

You definitely did not invent this sorry!

WonsWoo · 20/07/2025 18:31

DH always mixes up 'it gets on my nerves' and 'it gets my goat' so he often says 'it gets on my goat'. DS and I have now started saying 'get off my goat' when someone is being irritating.

Papergirl1968 · 20/07/2025 18:53

I accidentally abbreviated Swedish meatballs to sweetballs the other day. I think that one might stick.

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