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.

so called 'inspirational' 'uplifting' signs I see in shops that people actually buy..... like:

'LIVE LOVE LAUGH'
'HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS'
'HOME SWEET HOME'

Just No
Mac’n’Cheese
A cheeky drink/wine/gin etc
Hollibobs
Car Tetris
End of
Boak

But that's dialect saturday. Did you grow up in the westcountry?

“Expresso”

Where the fuck is the “X” in espresso? 🤬

Age is just a number.
Yes, and numbers have value.
Would you rather win £3 or £3000?
So just stop this vapid nonsense.
By the way, I'm quite old but I don't know how it happened.

girlfriend (unless you are a lesbian couple)
females
food porn
end of
veggie
badass
myself and my friend
me and my friend
love you to the moon and back
interwebs
short arse
cheeky drink
annual leave
you do you
agro
best friend/BFF/Bestie when used by grown women

and a whole lot of phrases that are part of teenage culture and grown women use them, sounds extremely pathetic.

Agree with 'food porn'. Sounds wrong.

A little while ago, I was over my friends house and she had TV on in the background. The show with the Sam/Billie sisters were on and one was trying to get her daughter to stop using bottles for milk. She kept referring to it as a Milky Botbot or some such shit. Was really winding me up for some reason.

Also grown adults calling dogs a "bow wow" when around children. People do it with my 15m old son : "look at the bow wow, cute bow wow"
What the fuck is a bow wow? It's a DOG. Say DOG. I can even tolerate doggy, just not fucking bow wow.

Almost all of the above.

'Are you on crack?' - a MN favourite.

It's like something a young teenager would say. Juvenile.

Guzzle, guzzled, and guzzling. Just fucking horrid.

‘The hubster’ 🤢 yes I have just logged into Facebook and witnessed that.

At the end of the day. Its night

Cheer up love it might never happen. . Fucking hate that. How do people know "it" hasn't happened already.

You know what I mean. No enlighten me.

Wanna hear me news. Not particularly but I suppose you're going to tell me.

OMG I sound like a right bitch.

Not a phase more a shortening
I hate Spag bol for spaghetti Bolonaise

To this day. It’s so overused and unnecessary at the end of sentences. I hear it so much eg ‘I still can’t stand him to this day’

At the end of the day winds me up too

"But I have a tiny baby" - of course you do, all babies are fucking tiny, even the larger than average ones. Leave out the emotive nonsense.

Agree RE kiddies and kiddos. Also:

"Choccy"
"Doggo"
"Pupper"
"Sweeties"
"Din dins" (my 50-something father needs to stop saying this)
"Cakey"

""Oh my days"....when did this start being used and why ?"

That always jars with me, because it doesn't make any sense at all.

'suck it and see'

Gahhhhh! Feel ill just typing this

‘Called out’,
As in, ‘she was behaving like a twat so I called her out on it’
Doesn’t make sense and brings to mind some serious neck-snaking

A 'slick of red lippy' or 'Flaunted her pins.' DM sleb reporting at its lowest.

And I really really hate when people are reporting a conversation and say 'so she turned round to me and said xxxxx, and I turned round to her and said yyyyy'. Were they actually rotating as they talked?

Just got an email from Next with the headline "Living Your Best Life?". So that.

me and my friend

I don't understand what is irritating about this one?

YANBU OP. You can't help it if you hate certain phrases.

Not a phrase, but I hate the word "awesome" being used to describe everything from sandwiches to TV programmes.

'Gawjus' and 'prolly'

Pussy whipped

EleanorHooverbelt
It’s the grammar.
‘My friend and I “ if the subject of the sentence, “my friend and me” if the object..

So never “me and my friend”.

Reach out - Always used at work and I actively tell people not to send this in emails or I will become irrationally angry. I'm sure it became so popular from Catfish on MTV

Little man/prince/princess/girl

Hun - ONE person I adore is allowed to use this but nobody else

All of the cliche mumsnet phrases like my hobby, stabby, LTB, hubby blah blah they are total cringe

I wish on Mumsnet people would actually say what the hobby is instead of insinuating they must be working for Mi5 in their spare time! Honestly I bet its stamp collecting or football.

SuburbanRhonda I don't think anyone is suggesting that anyone who works in an actual Safeguarding role and deals with actual, genuine Safeguarding issues shouldn't use the phrase. What annoys people is the overuse and frequent misuse of the term "safeguarding issue". You see it all the time on MN...school has made a decision that a child is mildly upset about, must be a "safeguarding issue", somebody parents their child in a different way to you, must be a "safeguarding issue". Its just bandied about too much by people who don't really understand Safeguarding basically.