Phrases you hate

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I know this has probably been done to death but just saw a cafe advertising "Vicky Sponge" and felt compelled to start a thread. Other offenders:

• any onomataopoeia for anything smell related, particularly if it is alliterative. There was a recent thread about "pongy pits" and being "whiffy" which gave me the inner boak.

Saw "occy health" on here which made me eyes bleed.

Being a bit something eg “ I’m a bit “ OCD”
Another vote for you do you.
And the mental health thing is everywhere! Why do people say “ I have mental health” when they mean they have mental health issues?

I’ve posted this loads but I can’t be doing with “ He/she turned around to me…” As my friend’s Dad used to say “ What are they a fuckin’ ballet dancer?” 😂😂😂

'How long is a piece of string?'

Going [place] rather than Going to [place]. DC1 does this all the time. Can we go Tesco? Are you going London? Sets my teeth on edge and apparently it’s generational….

Calling a day 'gorgeous' - there are radio presenters who do it at the end of their show (Owain wotsit on R2) - 'have a gorgeous day'. Makes me cringe.

It is what it is.

Sounds so passive aggressive to me.

Lots of the above....

Also, at my work we don't seem to be able to share information. We have to CASCADE information to each other:
'X is happening on X date. Please cascade this to other staff'
It give me white hot fury every time.

Curated!

‘How’s u’
infuriates me

Oh and a " cheeky" anything !

My labrador is my boy, and I am his mum. I don't care what anyone else thinks - he and I are happy!

Inner boak..what does that mean?

“I was today years old when…”. It makes no sense, how can anyone uttering it possibly think it makes sense??

Incorrect use of “… and I” and “…and me”. And don’t get me started on “His and I’s relationship”.

I do truly love my BIL, but I may one day murder him for his habit of asking “am I ok to grab a coffee?” when in my house… he knows he is most welcome to make himself completely at home here, and he knows I don’t care if he makes a coffee, I know he is just being polite, but it does irk me.

Finally, in recent months I have heard a lot of people use the phrase “does that make sense?” or “if that makes sense?” at the end of a monologue. Of course, invariably, what they’ve been saying makes sense as it’s something fairly basic that they’ve over-explained in tedious detail. It’s never a synopsis of a nuclear physics concept that they’ve given.

"Can I get" is normal where I live in Scotland. When I first moved here, I found it bizarre, but everyone says it and now I do too. "Please may I have"? Nope, never, not in these parts, you'd be the weird one for saying that round here.

Any corporate bullshit📧

Its not rocket science
Go with the flow
Blue sky thinking
The wider picture
It is what it is
The exigencies of the service
We are on the same page
I hear what your saying
Lost your mojo
Keep me in the loop

Plus any sentence which begins with "so" because it is either waffle or someone asking a rude personal question.

Again a word not a phrase but I can’t be doing with “hun” - some of my friends & my DSil use it in texts but wouldn’t refer to me as “ hun” face to face. Also it should really be “hon”, short for “honey”

With you on “if that makes sense”. So annoying! And actually a bit patronising.

Hard agree on "hun". My BiL (who I generally liked) used to use it about my SiL (who, sadly, I didn't).
Worse though, I found, was him referring to my absolute bruiser of a nephew as "Poppet".
(Maybe BiL should have used "Hun" about the bruiser nephew as in "Atilla the...")

My phrase changes... today it is

"but if you've got nothing to hide" (as if that is the reason people don't want digital ID )

Yesterday it was "come on over and shop the winter edit" (an online clothes seller's email)
I know all those words, but the putting together of them produces gibberish.

It’s not rocket science?! Saw this the other day and it made me laugh 😆

"Going up the hospital", compared to "we are going to the hospital".

When you get there, encountering a nurse whose first words are "you mum". So many times I've wanted to say, "of course not, I can speak, I am, however, Imogen's mum". Now I have an elderly mother, "shall we get mum dressed?" when it should be "shall we get your mum dressed?", or better still, "shall we get Mrs xxx/Joan dressed". Alternatively, they could speak directly to mother, rather than infantilising. She's been ill, she still has a fully working brain.

@PigglyWigglyOhYeah we've got a one dark square of chocolate eater and she's also asked the office to be kind and positive
I think she's the one who need to take some of her own advice

Someone I have to liaise with regularly has to "freshen up". Drives me mad, many times she's not able to have a shower so has "a sink wash" instead. She mentions these phrases all the time and my insides cringe every single time.

'Journeying' - it shouldn't be made into a verb. Going on a journey or travelling are both fine.
'Doing life together' - you mean hanging out together and eating
'Making memories' - you mean taking nice pictures. Actual memories are made by doing something stupid and your family and friends don't stop going on about it for the next 10 years.

Another one I really hate by health staff - “How are we?”