to say please stop saying this for the love of God

[vandrew4]

"not your circus, not your monkey" please please just stop

I think this is true of people who use the expression...

Oh good one lola

cats and pigeons

@MorningsEleven Go on, I'll bite...

Was it a shitzu?

I prefer the expression "I don't have a dog in this race".

Ha, was just coming on here to say how annoying 'for the love of God' was. Love the not my circus phrase though and it is a very helpful mantra in my extended family!

I like that gabs.

Ooh what’s the frogs and feathers one. Never heard of that

I've only been on MN since November but I've never known a fora like it for getting upset over other peoples turn of phrase.

Let them have their ducks, monkeys, were/where, your/you're.

Chill a bit.

I like it too. Sadly I have never had an occasion to use it but I am sure the opportunity will present itself one day.

Elephants and rooms
Cats and pigeons
Dogs and races
Flies and walls
Geese and boos

I like it, I hadn’t really heard of it until the last year or so, when I saw it on here.
Now I use it IRL quite often, usually directed at dh when discussing his family, or his work, and it is very fitting.

Ooh what’s the frogs and feathers one. Never heard of that

Just like “you can’t take blood from a stone” you can’t take feathers from a frog.

Thanks Phelan

I like it, seems pretty inoffensive to me.

On the other hand someone will come on and say in a minute and I’ll be grinding my teeth with irritation.

It's been around for years. I like it. Sums things up nicely most of the time.

If at first you don't succeed, turn him into a frog.

I walked past a man the other day, enthusiastically saying go his companion "not my business, not my monkeys" .

Saying to not go

If at first you don't succeed, turn him into a frog.

I agree OP. I always imagine the person who types that phrase thinking of themselves 'What a sage I am, what wisdom I impart'.

All that cheeky fucker stuff too. Lock the cheeky fuckers in the circus tent with the monkeys and let them slug it out until they're all dead.

I hope and pray fervently that this fucking tedious new Mumsnet thing of people starting a whole thread to bitch about their individual dislikes dies a death quite soon.

A site with hundreds of thousands of users features the odd phrase or saying you don't like? Just get over it ffs, and stop moaning.

It is boring.

Are you Mary Chipperfield, OP?

CF/Cheekyfuckers is just awful.

"Skin in the game" is getting borderline. I will be over it by end March.

Get a SHL/lawyer up is the most cringe though. As if we are all in LA with millions of dollars striding into the office of Mischcon de Reya with swishy hair, instead of lower middle class housewives in Bromsgrove.

I've never started