Phrases you hate

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AIBU to hate most phrases regarding trying to turn the word ‘children’ into some disgustingly sickly sounding alternative?

So far my list of words I refuse to use to refer to my children:

• tiny ones
• little ones
• kiddies
• kiddos
• little poppets

They all make me

I’m not a very maternal person. I love my own children, but in general I’m not a massive fun of other people’s children. Perhaps this is why I hate these words.

What phrases do you guys hate and AIBU?

And just for the record, other phrases I hate:

“Making memories,” to me everything is a memory, I don’t understand this. A lot of my memories are not good ones, so but this phrase all memories are positive.

• “pyjammies/jammies” instead of pyjamas. It literally makes me cringe.

Anything juvenile, twee or unnecessarily upbeat, when not directed at a small child. I could put together a comprehensive list, but for the sake of my blood pressure, I'll limit myself to the edited highlights...

Nom / yum / yummy
toms / pots / veggies
kiddies / little-ies / smalls
fur babies / pupper / doggo / coblet / ponio
babes / hubby / bae / any other vomit-inducing term of so-called endearment
cheeky fucking anything...

I had an adult, horse owner ask me the other week how you do "your up-downs" bareback. It took all my self-control not to point out that I don't do "up-downs", because I am not four years old...

I also despise incorrect use of idiom. I'll just have a "slither" of cake (I don't like sliver much either, but at least it's defensible). I did it all off my own back. For all intensive purposes, I can't give people free reign to talk about their horse's confirmation... Argh.

Hubby. Makes me feel sick.

Ping you an email
My bad
Whatever
Ridic (instead of ridiculous)
Dab ( the dabbing thing really annoys me)
Hun (especially when it's someone you hardly know)
Soz ( when said by a child especially, because they can't be bothered to say sorry in a proper way).
He's got some beef with you or I had some beef with her (where did that come from? Really grates on me).
Plus some others I just read in this thread .

He's got some beef with you or I had some beef with her (where did that come from? Really grates on me)

On the positive side, that must leave you with mince?

Salem as a fellow cat lover, I totally agree.
Cats are precious.

Making memories..... makes me want to vomit!!!
AND....... "living the dream"!!!!!!

When someone says 'that's life I'm afraid' when something doesn't go to plan etc. .

Diseasesofthesheep that's made me laugh, it's like an eye-rolling dad joke 😂

Pop of colour someone at work uses this

Cheeky/naughty glass of wine/cake just eat or drink

Just telling the truth

My house/child my rules wtf do you need rules can you bend the rules are they written down anywhere

"Window" as in "We have a small window of opportunity" or

"Source/Sourced" What's wrong with just "buying"?

"School Run" Have just always hated this

"Mani-pedi" and "girlie" - as in "I had a girlie day and treated myself to a mani-pedi"
Panties - makes me shudder, they are pants, knickers or underwear
My bad
What's wrong hun? It's spelled "honey" not "huney" so that doesn't even make sense!
Facebook statuses that say "X is feeling blessed"

‘Bear with’

From watching American tv, I hate hearing the words wearing a 'red lip' or 'blue shoe'. Also when people order food and say to the waiter 'I am going to DO the salad'- what do you mean!?
Also hate the idea that food is sinful or naughty, so if there is choc cake or chips in the cafeteria, people who won't order without an admission of guilt about being cheeky or naughty. Then when u sit down with your chips, said people will squeal 'ooh chips!' like its a crime ( I clearly need to get over this)

Hence why, as in I've got nothing better to do hence why I'm sitting here mumsnetting.

One of those words will do, you don't need both.

Spends
Hun
Lil man

"Its my go to"
"Hubby"

Sorry if someone's said this already (I skipped a couple of pages), but - "he talked ten to the dozen" when they mean someone is talking a lot, and fast. Ten to the dozen isn't a lot! There's 12 in a dozen! The saying is "he talked 19 to the dozen".

Cray cray.

I've never heard it - just seen it on here - but apparently lots of people say it.

"Forever Home"

Sounds so childish, no one lives anywhere forever.

"Life hacks" how do you hack life exactly?

Pinterest has a lot to answer for.

Oh yes, that's a weird one Nowshesaturtle always annoys me; it makes no sense.

There seems to be a lot of saying that have been around for many years that people have turned on their heads and when they say them it makes no sense. Someone up thread mentioned: 'I could care less', how does that make any sense.

There was a whole thread on here some time ago in which the poster said her DH said that she was punching above her weight with him, apparently he meant it as a compliment. The thread was pretty much split 50/50 with poster actually claiming that he meant she was too good for him.

I sometimes wonder if some people actually listen to the words coming out of their mouths.

This is the thing 😡 just fuck off

Anyone having a " cheeky " anything e.g. " cheeky glass of wine" ... don't know why but grates awfully!

Most of these! I'm a grumpy old cow.

Cannot stand corporate-speak, especially "reach out" - I work with some Americans and they're always saying it. To me, if you "reach out" to someone it means one or other of you is in a bad way, having a mental breakdown or suffering some kind of trauma. I have to remind myself that we're all fine, they just want to email me!

And "going forward" - gaaahhhh! What other way can we go, hmmm?

Oh and totally agree about "cheeky" - shudder! And "boozy" - recipes in magazines for "boozy choc puds"

" I'm not being racist/ homophobic but" followed by a racist/ homophobic comment. 😡