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What phrases are so annoying you want to scream argh!

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Butterfly98 · 07/06/2019 22:26

A woman I know from evening class has two really annoying phrases. So much so I really want to say Argh very loudly 😠! All of her conversations are full of 'you know what I mean' and 'gobsmacked' and I sometimes wonder if she has any idea how many times she says these words during a 15 minute chat! I'm sure she would be gobsmacked if she counted! Joking aside though, we all look forward to hearing her entertaining stories about everyday stuff told with such dramatic fashion every week! So tell me about someone you know who has some really annoying phrases!

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dontticklethetoad · 08/06/2019 08:06

firstimemamma glad someone said it! I would be too scared of being lynched by the "Hinchers" Grin

WoollyMummoth · 08/06/2019 08:16

‘No offence but ‘ before saying something amazingly offensive.
Fink instead of think
Any cheesy ‘ living my best life/ making memories’ shite. So false and stomach churning.
‘I turned round and said’ but you didn’t though you stayed perfectly still and said it.
There are plenty more but I can feel myself getting stabby so I’ll stop there.

Greenteandchives · 08/06/2019 08:23

It was so fun
Can I get....? (No you can’t. I will get it for you as I am the one behind the counter.)
Making memories
Any sentence using the word ‘snacking’ or ‘snacked’.
Fell pregnant. Or even worse, preggers or preggo.

Snog · 08/06/2019 08:26

Not gonna lie
Not being funny but

Bezalelle · 08/06/2019 08:30

Captions of "my whole world" on photos of some slack-jawed gimp and a rheumy toddler.

Tinseltrauma · 08/06/2019 08:43

'Opens up' .As in 'Celebrity Blah opens up about what she had for breakfast'.

TitchyP · 08/06/2019 08:45

And so it begins...

AngryAngryAngry

StealthPolarBear · 08/06/2019 08:47

Bez what about "this one" and "right here"

BlueJag · 08/06/2019 08:48

Everything is Iconic, eclectic, tactile ahhhhh! So annoying. Also when people say to be honest, to be fair... I want to slap them.

MedalMedalMedal · 08/06/2019 08:50

Oh god that awful ‘and so it begins’ one is always on Mn. Supposedly to sound so wise and sorrowful 🙄

And where has ‘Oh my days’ come from??

Crazyladee · 08/06/2019 08:52

When someone just types the comment "I can't even"
Constant use of "Do you know what I mean?"
Amazeballs
Wanna
When people use "lend" and "borrow" in the wrong contexts
Work related emails containing "on the back of" the email from so and so. "On the back of" the meeting this morning...

SinisterBumFacedCat · 08/06/2019 08:54

“Forever Home”

Yuck. You are not six years old. You have not discovered eternal life. It’s not a princess castle.

Ronsters · 08/06/2019 08:54

Life admin/sourced/reached out.
I hate long, drawn out words, eg "I'm sooooooo annoyed"
A colleague calls food "noms", although I quite like that one.

Giraffeinabox · 08/06/2019 08:55

"Ankle biters" grrrr
"Character building" no your childs just being a shit
"It is what it is" the official sponsor of this years Love Island off the back of "loyal"'s sucess last year.
Bennefit recipients getting "paid" fucks me right off.
"Aunt flow" im sorry, what? Even worse when the woman is over the age of 15. In the same vain, "blob" was the term when i was ar school and it sent shivers.
Im sure there are many more, and there are some on here that i embarrasingly say

PivotPivotPivottt · 08/06/2019 09:02

I have loads but a couple of irrational ones I see on here a lot really annoy me.

When someone describes their child as a dream, usually in reference to how they sleep - "DS1 was a dream". I have no idea why but it really annoys meBlush

Diddums. See this often in response to someone being unhappy about something. It just looks stupid in fact I don't think this one is irrational.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 08/06/2019 09:03

Putting a hashtag before anything! #fucking annoying!

Also “say a prayer for our ladybits” from gynaecological threads. I don’t want prayers I want a gynaecologist who knows what they are doing!

GertrudeSaysWhat · 08/06/2019 09:08

@HeronLanyon you are the only person who has ever been able to make any sense of that saying for me. THANK YOU!!!!! It’s still a rubbish phrase though Grin

BlueJag · 08/06/2019 09:10

I'm getting an education on hideous expressions that I don't know. Grin

CitadelsofScience · 08/06/2019 09:11

Some of these I agree with but some phrases are very common and have been around for decades. Such as, at the end of the day, I can't understand what's annoying about that?

What does annoy me is everything being described as 'wee' these days, unless you're Scottish then stop saying my wee one, I had a wee nap and every other word they put wee in front of.

ScreamingValenta · 08/06/2019 09:11

"I've been passed from pillar to post!"

Overused and annoying.

fecketyfeck21 · 08/06/2019 09:12

fell pregnant,
we're pregnant [wtf],
reaching out, [bleugh],
she's like, i'm like,
a lot of 'in phases' on mn

Carpetburns · 08/06/2019 09:14

Nom nom
Making memories
YOLO

fecketyfeck21 · 08/06/2019 09:14

making memories,
stupid inspirational quotes,
fell about laughing - god that really makes me feel stabby

Girlofgold · 08/06/2019 09:18

Bite to eat 🤮.
Something being tasty 🤮.
Being on a journey a la X factor 🤮.

IAmAlwaysLikeThis · 08/06/2019 09:19

girl even worse is "a bite", my husband always says it. "Shall we go out for a bite?"

Ughhhhh.

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