Phrases you hate

[Flyingfish2019]

Which are the phrases you hate in a conversation?

Oh and also 'bang on trend' 😅

"Can I get.......?"

As spoken by customers in coffee shops. It absolutely infuriates me.

'These bad boys'. Jamie Oliver, especially, says it a lot when he's referring to a nice bunch of veg. I hate it!!

Give me a bell

When people type "on point". It's "en pointe".

Thanking you makes me feel physically ill.

When people refer to their husband as hubby

BARF

End of and snowflake...both expressions/ words make me bloody cringe !!

'Hit the ground running' in job adverts.

Go/aim for the jugular.

voting ''while holding my nose''. Nope, own it.

"Taste of their plate".
I get visions of people snacking on china... and also the word 'snacking', everyone needs to be snacking.

100% Agree about "these are my pronouns". Are they?

'You do you'.
'You got this'.
'It is what it is' well ok, what else would it be?

'Quiet instead of 'quite. Or am I missing something? E.g. it's quiet a bit annoying that you're saying something isn't very loud rather than using quite.

'get Brexit done'

@CatteStreet I like the word "catty" actually.

Unicorn.

#Livingmybestlife
#blessed

"Get Brexit done" and "oven ready"

Reach out
Om nom nom
Chaps - especially when referring to a mixed gender group "right, chaps....."
My bad
Splendid or marvellous or marvellous scenes

There's loads more but they're the ones that immediately spring to mind....

Wellthatwasthat, I agree! When the DC used to say “Can I have...”, I always replied “Yes, it’s physically possible” without providing it, until they realised and switched to “May I have..”

Must have, silly advertising speak

Shop the dress/ shoe etc, you shop FOR something and usually buy a pair of shoeS.

Ping me an email 🤮

Hit the ground running.

You do you babe

At the end of the day

The position they found themselves in

Festive ( hate that word for some reason)

My little miss or madam etc

"I'm not being funny but..." Frequently said at work by a colleague and always immediately followed by something not funny and usually insulting to me and his colleagues.

"With all due respect..." Frequently said at work by a different colleague and always immediately followed by something disrespectful and usually insulting to me and his colleagues.

I can't get worked up about 'can' vs 'may', as long as the phrasing and manner of asking are polite.

wanderings

Aderyn, I guess I think it's OK, as a contraction of a grammatically valid structure (yup, descriptivist and proud of it). Do you think 'needs doing' is OK? A case could be made (not that I would agree with it) for that being more ungrammatical than 'needs done'.

The 'shop the dress' thing reminds me - I do dislike the 'edit' nonsense on clothing shop websites, and the habit of talking about 'a trouser' or (worse) 'a jean'.

'Buy' without an object. As in house buying - 'we're looking to buy in London' - or wrt Christmas - 'I buy for my family, dh buys for his'. It's not ungrammatical and the context makes it comprehensible, but it irrationally annoys me.

On the subject of housing: 'rented accommodation', or 'living in rented'. Urgh. The very use of 'accommodation' implies something temporary and precarious and therefore stigmatising. I assume that sort of usage is going to have to change as the number of people renting grows.