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.

Impact as a verb instead of affect but I've lost that one.

Close of play, as in respond by in an email!
Read and run - just stfu and reply normally or later 🙄
Winner winner chicken dinner - just fuck off!!

I'm definitely annoying with the dog names though.
Wee poppet
Bobble
Bobbleob
Bobo
Never furbaby or furkids though 😂

This made me laugh. I'm not a fan of "Baby on Board" stickers either. I always want to write underneath them, "Well, drive carefully then!"

'Early doors'. I have an irrational but deep-seated hatred of it. Especially as it's often used in a place where plain 'early' would do just as well.

'Yet here we are' in a patronising way.
Also, I've started using but must stop as it's probably now on the irritating list...
'Not my circus, not my monkey'

I hate the phrase ‘call/ed out.’ It drives me up the wall. Along with many other Americanisms!

"Picky bits". I've just been food shopping. Huge sign in M & S food dept. Then went to Waitrose, picked up their food magazine, another page with "picky bits".

It's infantile.

"Picky bits" sound like scabs.

Which is what a lot of the beige, deep-fried stuff looks like on the plate!

Americanisms

Core memories made…
Hubster
No offense (clearly about to say something offensive)…
Going gym, going toilet, etc.
You do you
Little man / little legs

And because I teach teenagers:
six seven
aura

I agree. I think there's a theme to a lot of phrases that I don't like, that they sound childish (and only women use them).

See also famalam, hollibobs, fur baby etc

I hate them - especially 'Princess on Board' - I deliberately drive closer to annoy them. Who cares?