To hate these expressions

[AlexaChelsea]

How's you?

Good eats

NO

[Bettercallsaul1]

Oh, I've just thought of the WORST - "Sorry for your loss" which is so hackneyed, it is insulting - at the worst possible time.

[TheTruffleHunter]

'At this time'. Do you mean now??

And 'in and of itself' has that ever been uttered by anyone not trying to be a pretentious twat??

[TheTruffleHunter]

Ooh and football managers hoping for a 'result'. Yes, that's quite likely, but are you hoping for a particular result?

[Bettercallsaul1]

Continuing the football theme, what about "a game of two halves"?

[Rhythmisadancer]

I agree "sorry for your loss" is equivalent to "I don't give two shits".

And please don't tell me that someone has "passed". It makes me barf, and that would be disrespectful.

When Mrs T died a vague acquaintance posted on FB that "a lady has passed" and therefore no one should say anything mean.

I unfriended her. That's annoying too.

[daisychain01]

When on the phone, waiting to be put through to a department....

"Bear with me..." Oh please, give me strength.

When in WHSmiths "Can I interest you in a 10kilo bar of chocolate?" - no piss off. And to add insult to injury...

"Can I interest you in a 10kilo bar of chocolate todaaaaaay? No not today or tomorrow, just piss off

[LiberalPedant]

I am on holiday in the US at the moment so I hear all of the above every five minutes. I may be responsible for an International incident very very soon! Watch out for me on the news!

Yes, damn those Americans for using American expressions in, of all places, America.

[Fakebook]

At the end of the day (JK favourite)

Me thinks (cringes)

Woop woop!!!!! (Wtf is that? I see people writing it on fb all the time)

Referring to a friend as "Miss/Mrs Surname"... For example "Can't wait to meet Miss Pukey for drinkies later!!" (Puke)

Obviously the terms "hubby" and "wifey".

I use "yay" and "good job" almost everyday with dd!

[Awks]

Deliver as in work situations. When people say "What you have to deliver........" a tiny bit of me dies.

[AlexaChelsea]

Oh god. Me thinks.. Cringe.

[Milkjug]

When someone says 'my lady wife' or, worse, 'my good lady wife ', I have to restrain myself from going over and punching him repeatedly. It's often the kind of middle-aged hearty man who talks about going to 'pump ship' when he's off to the loo.

My other bugbear is 'popping' eg. 'I just popped by', 'I'm just popping down to the shops', 'Just pop it in at oven for fifteen mind'. I think it's the faux-cheeriness, and the way it sounds so zippy and 'fun'. Grr.

[Milkjug]

Fifteen MINS.

[SHarri13]

Om nom nom makes me want to punch a wall.

Über makes my blood boil, just use very, there really is no need.

Hun, hubby, blerghhhh.

[Bettercallsaul1]

Any adjective used as an adverb e.g. "He played fantastic" .

[mrsminiverscharlady]

'Works'-anything eg. 'works-do', 'works-phone', 'works-email'. Unless you work in a cement works, printing works or similar.

yy to 'good lady wife'. I immediately write off anybody using that expression as a tosser, which saves time in the long run as I'm inevitably correct.

I'm not very good with abbreviations in general; 'mat' leave, creme 'pat' and 'delish' spring to mind. And anyone who says 'holibobs' or 'sainsbos' deserves to die a slow and painful death.

Disclaimer: I have just finished a set of night shifts, so may be a tiny bit on the grumpy side.

[2tiredtocare]

Well you made me laugh mrsmini

[Milkjug]

Yes, where the hell did 'om nom nom' come from? What happened to the (marginally) less maddeningly irritating 'yummy'?

I hesitate to blame America, but I think I first noticed it on American blogs. Which is fine, obviously: maybe Americans have always said 'Om nom nom', as is their right? But what is it doing over here?

I've never actually met anyone who said 'hollibobs'. Do people really???

[vladthedisorganised]

Don't mind 'sorry for your loss' - or even referring to a dead person as having 'passed', better than 'x fell asleep'. No, dying and falling asleep are NOT THE SAME THING. Though 'a lady has passed' does almost ask for someone to add 'a gallstone' at the end...

Abbreviations, particularly cutesy ones, annoy me a lot. Hollibobs, sainsbobs, 'puter, mat leave (creme 'pat' is a particular abomination I hadn't come across before that has just made it into my top 10 - thanks mrsminiver!), jacket pot, tommy K... etc etc etc.

'Unpack' used in management-bollocks-speak to mean 'examine'.

And of course, 'empowering' when used in the sense of 'yes the feminists are going to get upset about it, so if we call it 'empowering' it's all right, isn't it?' No.

[FoxMulder]

Most of these are fine with me, with the crucial exception of 'nom nom'. It sounds horrible!

I hate the misuse of 'literally'.

[DropYourSword]

Yikes, I say many things mentioned on this thread!

Apart from the shop onesi...I hate the whole Have a nice day bullshit because it's so false. They also say at checkouts here What are the plans for the rest of your day or What have you got up to today. I knew it's not their fault and they been told to say it, but really WHO thinks that's a good idea. Just friggin ring my shopping through, I'm really not interested in making friends with you! I wonder if it's meant towards isolated lonely people and that might be the only conversation they have the whole day. But I now always try and go through self serve tills.

The one that upsets me the most is Smile love, it might never happen. Said to me once by a security guard in the benefits office. Let's see mate, I have NO job, NO money, have just found out I'm entitled to precisely nothing and I have no idea how I'm going to pay my rent and bills. I'd say IT FUCKING HAS HAPPENED and you are the particularly repugnant shit flavored icing on the crappy cake that is my life!

[2tiredtocare]

Yes! I hate the misuse of literally too 'I literally died' no you didnt

[charleslingus]

Somebody posted on fb that he wanted a 'donalds' would somebody please bring him a 'donalds'?

Horrible cringy combination of irritating brand name shortening and irritating grown man talking like a toddler. Bye bye.

[2tiredtocare]

Yuk

[MadBannersAndCopPorn]

Yummers- I know someone who says this all the time, it makes my blood boil.
Loves- as in 'I loves my hubby' Unless you actually speak like that...
Epic, awesome, random, literally 'I was literally a whole hour late' ?! - Just because they're over used and mostly out of context.
'Is there anything else I can help you with today?' They have to say this in waitrose and sainsbury's I think.

[KCumberSandwich]

One that makes my teeth curl is when people say "Tesco's, Asda's, Lidl's" instead of just Tesco etc.

Also, cannot stand it when people call their laptop a "lappy", gross!