Phrases you hate

[Flyingfish2019]

Which are the phrases you hate in a conversation?

'I just tell it like it is' - in other words, you don't try to spare other people's feelings as you ram home your own particular brand of honesty.

I don't see that as a positive thing.

What does 'you do you' mean? Is it a variant of 'your [whatever] your rules'? Or 'each to their own' (which annoys me for a couple of reasons - first, it's supposed to be 'to each their own' (I think), second and a lot more weightily, that is a translation of a phrase the Nazis put up above the gates to one of their concentration camps).

'Oh my giddy aunt' will be a corruption of 'oh my God' for those who consider the proper phrase blasphemous, I presume.

On 'I don't suffer fools gladly' - cf. 'I speak as I find'. It's a way of saying 'I'll be as rude as I like and don't complain about it'.

I think 'you do you' is social media/self-care type blathering.

I think that usage has shifted to the extent that 'please may I' sounds formal or unnecessarily obsequious these days.

'Give your head a wobble'
'Ducks in a row'
They make me cringe.

Ah, so sort of 'you look after yourself and have your me time'?

You know what I mean.

Annoys the hell out of me.

It's no skin off my nose...disgusting expression. My family use it a lot!

I feel a bit sad that 'not suffering fools gladly' has been so comprehensively devalued - years ago, it was a pretty useful idiom.

Ah, so sort of 'you look after yourself and have your me time'?

I think it's more like, be your most authentic self .

Drop a line
Chill (as in keep calm)
Make love

I think I prefer 'be your most authentic self', cringe factor notwithstanding, to 'you do you'!

(Someone is so going to come on here and slate 'cringe factor'. And the expression 'xxx is so going to...' )

May have been mentioned already but 'everything happens for a reason'. At best trite, at worst incredibly hurtful.n

Calling a baby boy “little man”, makes me feel violent with annoyance.

Turkeys voting for Christmas
Used by smug tossers as if they’ve just hit the apotheosis of intellectual achievement by coining a phrase used by thousands of other smug tossers every single day.

They're all bad!

Also, 'authentic' has been co-opted.

These are dark times...

Expressions that to native speakers are mistranslations can be adopted by international speakers and find their way into the language that way

I think "excited for" came into the English language that way.

I think most of the things I dislike have been mentioned but in particular:

saying myself when you mean me
using "gift" as a verb though I don't mind "regift" so much
saying excited for when you mean excited about
fur baby for a pet
instead of saying winning a medal/reaching a final, saying "to medal", "to podium" "to final"
making memories - you either remember something or you don't

Turkeys voting for Christmas

Yes. It reminds me so much of.... James O'Brien.

Also:
Gammon, thick, hard-of-thinking, yada yada.

I actually quite like yada yada, that was meant as my summary assessment.

“Drop” to mean release or announce. E.g. “she just dropped her third album”.

lessons to be learnt
at the end of the day
Juno wo' Ahmeen?
Like?
Innit?
Eh no?

The banner at the top is advertising Victoria's secret 'panties'. If ever there was an ad guaranteed to put me off that's it.

Using 'super' - eg 'I was super busy', 'I was super stressed'.

Where has this come from all of a sudden? What happened to 'very' or 'really'?

Curated, as in house style. No you didn’t, you went to the high street and bought stuff - you are not the Tate Modern.

Randoms, when talking about people. Vile word to use.

Incorrect use of personal pronouns. For example, ‘Father Christmas came to see John and I’ is wrong wrong wrong. You wouldn’t say ‘Father Christmas came to see I’ you would say ‘Father Christmas came to see me’ so adding John doesn’t change the ‘me’ to ‘l’.