To hate the phrase love you to the moon and back?

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Just find it irritating

"Love the bones of ..." is the one that sets my teeth on edge. I don't really know why, but possibly because it makes me think of a slasher movie.

Yabu. It's fine. Quite nice actually.

YANBU
But it is what it is (worst ever)

I hate 'x sleeps until...' from adults. Nauseating.

user1471517900 What on earth do you mean? What are click habits of mice?

It really makes me cringe, along with loving the bones of someone. Unimaginative hyperbole.

I love the book and when I had my first DC it was one of the first I bought but I was a little surprised/disappointed at the story. Big Nutbrown hare is constantly one-upping Little Nutbrown hare. (If you've been to Tenerife, he's been to Eleven-erife) all ended with the passive aggressive whisper in little Nutbrown hare's ear "I love you to the moon AND BACK". Like yeah, beat that!!

An old Mumsnet favourite: I love my kids almost as much as Peter Andre loves his?

Each to their own though course. It's not causing me anxiety or anything

This is quite sweet though (if it's not absolute nonsense!)

How about, "love you all the world"

The distance to pluto would vary depending on relative positions in orbit, wouldn't it?

I like that actually. Loving someone as far as pluto is would mean "sometimes more, sometimes less, but still lots".

The moon is boringly static in its distance.

"love you all the world" is just mangling words.

What's the matter with the old: I love you?

I hate the saying and hate the stupid nutbrown hare book. Poor kid trying to show how much he loves his grown up and the tosser has to show off how much better he is every time.

It's become trite through overuse - YANBU.

We say love you more than ( and then random but important to us things) so I will say love you more than chocolate, dd will say infinity ( or ice cream) ds love you more than blue ted ( teddy he sleeps with).. occasionally get love you more than chocolate back...

"Love you to Andromeda and beyond" works doesn't it?

Well my ds loves me 'a little bit more than the cats'. I'd rather that than the moon and back nonsense. At least it's honest and heartfelt! I think the problem with twee is that I wonder if it's genuinely meant or just words dropping out of someone's mouth..

It doesn't bother me.

And actually I find myself using cliche type phrases with my dcs because they find it hard to understand how you measure love. We talk about infinity - so I tell them I love them infinity universes. Which they know means a lot forever!

Me too

I find ones about the running up click habits of mice worse.

........what?

The Guess how much I love you book used to bring a tear to my eye nearly every time I read it, so did The Snail and the Whale though so I could just have been an emotional wreck!

That was some years ago now though and I have to say that 'love you to the moon and back' a bit nauseating these days, but that could be the result of a couple of years hardening up on Mumsnet.

Today my DD(5) loved me millions and billions and trillions and gajillions and bajillions. So, I'll take that.

She does quite often love me 'right round her back' because that's as far as her arms can reach when she tries to show me.

Both far more meaningful I thinks. YANBU

Ops name is hickory dickory, I think click is meant to be clock. That is:

Hickory dickory dock is worse than Guess how much I love you.

It's become trite through overuse

Exactly. The book has been around over twenty years and I remember reading it to my now 20yo son. It's only in the last few years I've heard of people (over)using it as if they are the first to think of it.