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

[SteveAs]

I will start

Beast from the east- just cringe

Hubby 🤮

Oh another...

People who insist on over egging a medical story with

"I was rushed to hospital" well, yes, the ambulance service are so busy they 'rush' anyone to hospital so they can get on with the next job.

"She had a massive stroke" I've never heard anyone describe anyone else having a stroke without the prefix 'massive'!

"My doctor told me off for not going in sooner/my doctor was annoyed at me for not being seen sooner" your doctor made a comment that you should have been seen sooner but they didn't 'tell you off' or 'get annoyed'. Usually said by people who want to exaggerate how serious their issue was by implying the doctor was horrified/had never seen it before/shocked, and wanting to exaggerate how much they believe the doctor cares about them individually by using the above phrases. Kinda like 'oooh my bank manager won't be happy' when nobody sits with the bank manager to go through their spending and managers would actually much prefer you to be in debt as it makes them much more money in interest 😂

That's brilliant cuckoo! Love that!

Also yes to 'gender scan' it doesn't exist to tell you your child's sex, moron. It's to check for abnormalities and that the foetus is healthy.

People who call other people 'melt' or 'weapon'

Snowmagedon fair, you can use any words you like. When my mum died I was fine using the proper term from the start but appreciate others might want a more sanitised version. I don't have as much of an issue with 'passed away' as that is a way of referring to death, but 'passed' alone is just odd. It has nothing to do with dying. Passed what? Driving test? Life?

'Rented accommodation'. As in 'in rented accommodation' (which smacks rather of being 'in' an institution). Implies that a rented house can't possibly be a real home.

Oh another: 'renting is just money down the drain'

Instantly marks somebody out as incredibly privileged and tone deaf to the fact that for a lot of people being able to rent a place to live is massive and an exchange they're happy to make (I pay you money and you give me a roof) and that a huge number of people have zero chance of ever being able to get a mortgage.

limon, hate it too. its not really called for.

'Date night' from married couples, it's not a date youre just going out for dinner and might bang later if you have too much wine haha

‘He he’

"Life is cruel.".
In my previous job, a colleague who I knew from before told me a person we knew just passed away from cancer. Told my boss, was horrified because I knew that person, a very nice guy and too young. She just shrugged her shoulders and said that.
I was furious. One of the reasons I left.

Clandestino
What should your boss have said? Some people don't know what to say in those circumstances and she may have been sincere in what she'd said?

Atm I am hearing smashed it sing a mediocre song on the voice smashed it. Run a race smashed it etc etc

Pressing the flesh. No.

'In this space' used in terms of 'we've done a lot of research in this space'. It's not a physical space is it? Stop it.

First up- by newsreaders .Sounds lazy.
Hun
Cheeky vino, fizzy Friday and wine o'clock .
With all due respect.
At the end of the day.

Hun, babe and just saying!!!

'Out out'

Brexit

‘I beg your pardon’
Really bizarre phrase when you think about it

Hun, sarnie, butty, Xmas, biccie/biccy, whatever, chippy.

Hubby/hubster, this one, san pro, aunt flo (af), come on - as in I've just come on my period, bubs.

Sorry going to have to add "over egg" and "over egging" now, both made me cringe.

Oh dear. I use most of these, frequently.

I had no idea people hated them so much.

I don't like 'hun'.

When I hear, 'that's the rub', it makes me feel sick

There's*

Holibobs. What the actual fuck?

Just remembered - fluid. Dh says to the dc often that they need to get some fluids down them. 😬