What phrases are so annoying you want to scream argh!

[Butterfly98]

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!

A moment in time
It’s nonsensic

@bee22 years ago when I was pregnant and when the kids were small, a few times when someone said “how’s mommy doing” or similar I would just look confused and say “I don’t think I know your mother? Sorry!” But no one seemed to understand the point I was trying to make so I gave up!

Little man instead of little boy.

For me it's when people say "yourself" instead of you- it's always annoying sales types eg "Will it be yourself signing the contract Miss Smith?"

And when people say utilise instead of use

And pacifically when they mean specifically

Aaaaagghhhhh 🙊🙊🙊

Some hipster blogger described my local high street as having "community feels".

'I'm screaming' on social media when someone wants to point out that they find something amusing. You're not screaming, I doubt you even smiled. FUCK OFF

Yourself instead of you - agreed redbedheadd BUT I have some sympathy. Only ever used by someone trying hard to appear more educated than they are. Think it’s a real signifier of social unease. Hate it but hate why it’s said even more !

"That'll learn ya" 🤬

Gobsmacked
Flabbergasted
Stunning

Obsessed with. You just mean very fond of you total dick.

We're pregnant no you're pregnant he is not.
Wanky phrase

Give your head a wobble

Its swings and roundabouts

As above posters, those who when recounting conversations describe everyone as "turning around and saying.."

I was sat/stood

My driving instructor says "yeah " almost after every word

"At the end of the day "

"It is what it is"

'Impact' is a noun. It's not a verb, and should never be used as such.
Blue-sky thinking. Going forward. Thinking outside the box. Insert other irritating corporate/team-building platitude of choice.
Actually, add team-building in itself.
Dangling modifiers. Any dangling modifier.
'Pops of colour'.
Emphatic, point-making, concluding statements. 'End of' (a double-offender, as it's also a dangling modifier). 'Rant over'. 'Fact' (that's the funniest one).
Anything 'o clock, with the exception of the time.
Journeys. Everything has to involve one; even if it entails stasis.
Bless him/her/you.
Disclaimers, followed by 'but'. I.e. I'm not racist, but ... Just own it, or better still, if it's that obnoxious, don't bother to say it in the first place ...

Ditto on “yourself”/“myself”.

Also “whilst”. “Amongst” also, but particularly “whilst”. Always have to restrain myself from saying “Okay, Shakespeare. Next sonnet please...”

There are two that irritate me:

Boils my piss
Makes my teeth itch

I've got ever seen them written here on MN.

'One of the only [what is being spoken about]'.

It gets my goat every time. It doesn't make sense because it doesn't state how many there are of what is being spoken about.

'One of only nine of [what is being spoken about]' does make sense. Specifying the known or estimated number of what is being spoken about, is what makes it sense.

Am I? Making sense that is… bugger, this is more difficult than I thought it would be… more caffeine needed.

This is so uncomfortable. People really judge other people by the fillers they use? How shallow

There’s always one 🙄

Holibobs
Hubby
Hubster
Little man
Makes my teeth itch
Living my best life

Melt (as in you're being a melt) heard that many times.
When people pronounce tooth as toff.
And then some.... never knew why I hated that phrase so much 🤷🏻‍♀️

I pray for the end of 'amazing'. I even hear myself saying it and cringe.

"...on my period."
I've only ever heard it on Mumsnet.

"....we're pregnant."
You might be expecting a baby but only one of you is actually pregnant!

"I was like .... and she was like.... and I was like ....."

" I seen it......."
"We done it........" etc

My friend always says according to it and at the end of everything "does that make sense" ggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

When I was at school my maths teacher used to say 'do you follow' about every 10 seconds!