Phrases/sayings that irrationally annoy the life out of you

[Candycoco]

I cannot stand it when someone is asking about what to use in a certain situation, and people say "... [Such and such] is your friend" argh I hate that!

Or when people describe something as their "go-to" product .

Don't know why but I just hate those phrases! Anyone else ?!

"not your monkey"
"sorry, but..." (when it is clear they are anything but sorry"
"frankly" (just hate it for some reason)
"university of life"
"if yourSELF could just send an email to mySELF"
"cheer up it might never happen"
"innovator"

Sure to come back to this later...

...hmm not much later at all!

When people talk about where something was "sourced" from. I cannot take you seriously if you do that. For the rest of our acquaintance, every time you speak, all I will hear is "sooooouuuuurced".

Argh I also hate it when people call their child "mate", he's not your mate he's your child! ??

Momentarily.

As in, "we will be boarding rows 10-45 momentarily ". What, and then we all have to get off again?

All this time I've been thinking it was just me that felt like this about the way others speak. I also hate every one on here, this thread is great.
I really do not like to hear parents calling their small child ' mate ' either.
I think some sayings are regional and a lot is text or shortened speak. I've always hated being called ' Hun '.
I also strongly dislike noises people make, even if they're chewing or just breathing.
' my bad' is shocking !

Mummy friends (or mum chums as I read on here once )
Playdate
xmas instead of Christmas

I hate "mummy friends" too, susan, but I end up using it anyway. There is not always enough time for "friend of mine who I met at the school gate and whose middle child is a friend of my eldest".

I live in the USA and the phrase "I could care less" is used when it should be "I couldn't care less." It drives me bonkers, it's completely illogical to say it that way.

I also have a coworker who likes to say "Use your words" when somebody doesn't respond to her question fast enough. I want to use my fists!

Anonymouse are you buying a house by any chance? I've heard these two regularly over the past year

I really really hate "cuppa". I loathe it. It seems to be creeping into more and more threads.

I have a FB friend who writes wot instead of what. Why? You save one letter.

Sanpro
Spag Bol

Sourced
School Run
Window - As in "We only have a small window of opportunity"

I/She/He turned around.
Rocked Up.

'Going forwards'; any incorrect use of 'yourself', 'myself', employed by user in an attempt to sound proper. E.g. "Having spoken with yourself sir"

I hate 'cook it off' for three minutes or whatever.
What's wrong with, "Cook it for three minutes."

Also in agreement with previous posters - hun - eww!
Simples - twat!
University of life and the school for hard knocks - yawn
Nom Nom - disgusting
Chicken, as a term of endearment - bleurgh

A long meeting at work today full of phrases like 'going forwards', 'win win', 'thinking outside the box', 'low-hanging fruit', 'blue sky thinking' etc. Aargh! Hours of it!!

• a pop of colour
• a nice trouser
• on trend
• should of
• "Reach out" and any other stupid management speak; I have a very visual imagination and all those stupid phrases make me picture even stupider images (if that makes any sense to anyone but me?)

Whoop! Whoop!

toblerone boo, not at the moment but yes people said that to me when I was, everytime a sale fell through. They get trotted out everytime you are in a negative situation you have no control over and they are a pile of crap

In my neck of the woods they say "A quarter of five" or "Five and twenty past"

I could care less
So you really care? You care a bit?
Exactly what level of shits do you actually give Beyonce?

Do you mean to be so confusing?
Do you actually mean that you could not care less?
Is that it? Maybe you should say that instead.

"Back in the day" makes me want to kick the shit out of the say-er. Especially as they are usually talking about things that happened 2 or 3 years ago. Arghhhhhhh.

#winning
ALL the (Imma eat ALL the cake and drink ALL the booze)
Any sort of acronym. (Lol, FML, SMH, IDK etc)
Go hard or go home.
Roasties
Poorly
Pricey
Tummy
Yummy/Yummers
Youngsters
Kiddies
#yolo

Cuppa
Tipsy
Posh
Fizz, as in 'a bottle of fizz'.

so many that i see on mn.

I fell pregnant. Sounds so passive.

Awww, bless.

Anonymice-"Everything happens for a reason"

Drives me insane too, as although things do happen for a reason, it's a phrase used to actually avoid discussing the real reason!

"I didn't get that job I went for. Still never mind, everything happens for a reason"
Yes, the reason was your weren't bloody good enough! A single GCSE in art is your only qualification, and your cheated to get that, you look a mess, you can't string a decent sentence together, you have "LOVE and HAT" written on your knuckles because you lost a finger in a fight, and no decent employer would touch you with a bargepole. That's probably the reason!