To ask , what is your least favourite word/phase?

[SteveAs]

I will start

Beast from the east- just cringe

The American 'sucks ass' makes me feel physically sick.

Grow a pair, grrr. I'm hoping that'll go out of fashion like the similarly horrible 'get a life'.

Meds,
Sourced,
Pieces when talking about things rather than bits of things,
Shenanigans,
This one, cheeky vino with this one

People that over egg an ambulance story by announcing they were “blue lighted”.

"Virtue signalling"- such a lazy and dismissive way to shut down debate. Always makes me think that the person using it is such a piece of work that they can't even imagine someone genuinely holding morally decent views.

"Shits and giggles", "shit a brick", "I shat myself" (used metaphorically) etc.- stop saying "shit" all the time!

I hate "me and ..."

Can we add 'shits and gigs.'

A piece of work

Limon I used passed for died because died is a hard, final word and when I you have lost someone close it can be easier to use whatever words you you frankly want too but passed is a lot softer and easier to say than died.

As of yesterday “potty shot”

'Property ladder'
Being pregnant/having children 'to' someone
Like a PP, 'lifestyle choice'
'Chav'/'chavvy'
'Bits', as in 'I went to the shop to buy some bits we needed'
'Push present'
'Speaking properly', referring to RP accents only (i.e. the implication that anyone without an RP accent isn't 'speaking properly')
'Vile'
'Sanitary protection'. My period isn't unsanitary, thank you very much. Neither do I need protecting from it. I need something to absorb the blood.
'Appropriate'. Useful but my goodness, sounds smug.
Putting a baby 'down', meaning putting him/her to bed
Calling the 20-week scan a 'gender scan'
'Mum friends'. Worse, 'mummy friends'

Dropped on. Dropped on lucky. Eurgh...Don’t entirely understand the phrase and it just sounds really common, says Hyacinth Bucket.
Mate. Loathe it Should be used only in context of reproducing.

Cleanse. It somehow sounds greasy and unctuous. Just say "clean", ffs.

'Was/am sat' isn't - technically - correct. It's 'was/am sitting' or 'was/am seated'. But tbh I think it's common enough to count as an acceptable colloquialism.

'Nip it in the bud'

I think it's because when someone uses it they are telling me what to do. And I don't like that.

I too hate "passed" for "died". It's sanitised, it means going past something. A person who dies has not done that. "Died" is not a dirty word, using a euphemism for it will not make it unhappen or make it any better.

Likewise "gone to sleep".

Labouring as in being in labour.
Enjoy - when being given food in a restaurant.
Super - as in I'm super hungry.
Hun - for obvious reasons.

And of course, 'boob' as a verb when breastfeeding.

"It doesn't sit right with me". Somehow it sounds smug and self-righteous; and, properly analysed, it means that the person saying it can't be bothered to explain why they object to whatever it is they are objecting to.

"Reach out" when you mean "contact", "talk to", "phone", "write to": No, no, no. Fuck off with reaching out. It's like holding up a sign saying "I'm a pretentious dickhead".

Words such as 'like' 'yeah' and 'right' over punctuating what should be very simple, and brief, sentences. The other day my son had missed his bus to school and phoned me to tell me. Instead of just saying 'I've missed the bus' he launched into a long tirade of 'What happened was' littered with so many yeahs, rights and likes that it took him about half an hour to tell me! I had to cut him off half way through and say 'You've missed the bus' otherwise I'd have been there all day!

"Spit of"
It's just so gross.

4funnels because it's technically ungrammatical. I understand that it's dialect (I'm northern myself) and common-but it isn't correct...and it sounds odd to my ears...

'Falling' or 'fell' pregnant.
'Time of the month' (for menstruation)
'The decorators are in' (ditto)
Girls night out.
Vajazzle

People who call their sons "my little man". "Little lady" is as bad, but fortunately doesn't seem to be used quite as much. And "Lil man" should be a hanging offence.

I absolutely hate being called "hun". I usually ignore it if I possibly can, on the footing that no-one who knows me could possibly imagine it's a term that I want used in relation to me.

AF (Aunty Flo) for periods. Just terrible.

For all my fellow 'Reach out' haters