To ask you what your least favourite phrase is?

[Nutkin123]

I'll start, mine are:

"Boys will be boys"

"Think outside the box"

"Blue sky thinking" this makes my blood boil when someone says it at work.

‘It is what it is’. Oh, thank goodness you pointed that out! I thought it was what it isn’t! NOW it all makes sense!

“On the blob” - always makes me shudder.

"He did good".

"Time to get up" on Monday Mornings is an especial low.

Also ‘fair enough’. Usually used by someone trying to indicate they’re somehow being very magnanimous and understanding, over an issue that was never potentially UNfair in the first place.

Making Memories

Just bloody do stuff and take some photos if you want but ARGH!!!

'Zero fucks'

Not my circus, not my monkeys. Not sure why but this phrase makes me murderous

'I love you to the moon and back' - URGH!!!!

'On the blob' - do people still use that?!
I'm guilty of using 'it is what it is'

I do find it annoying when school-based friends post about how sad they are that's it Monday, or how glad they are that's it's friday and how much they are looking forward to half-term. One of my friends did this so vehemently once that I commented perhaps they were in the wrong job? I know sometimes we all hate Mondays etc but they do it so often - you have to wonder why they don't change job

"Sick to my stomach"

No need for the stomach part! You can't be sick to your left knee-cap, can you? Over-dramatic, Americanised nonsense.

“Open kimono”

“At the end of the day”

“Making memories”

I keep hearing "You do you" lately and I hate it - so patronising.

‘Boobing the baby’. Puking the puke 🤢

He did good is awful isn't it! I especially hate it around Valentine's Day / birthdays etc when it changes to "boy did good"

Making memories is exceptionally vile as well!

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I sometimes wonder how, say, parents of murdered children, or people with a partner in a long term coma, feel about that one.

My bad.

Boys will be boys.

"No dramas!" irritating.

'Keep your eyes peeled'

Dd hates this

Haha, I agree with all of the above. Especially ‘zero fucks.’
I have a very long list, I generally hate all of them.
I particularly dislike ‘at the end of the day’ and ‘I turned around and said’ ‘he turned around and said’ etc.

'What's for you, wont go by you'

Or anything similar, I'm sure that it's really comforting to know that if your loved one dies horrifically that it was 'for them' anyway.

‘By the skin of your teeth “. Urrrrrggg !

‘Simples’. Not funny ten years ago; makes me murderous now.

The phrase itself is fine, but when people say ‘First come first serve’ instead of serveD, I want to boil them in oil.

“I lost my shit”.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never shat myself in anger.

Not exactly a phrase, but I really don’t like the word ‘think’ used the context of people trying to protect their identity on mumsnet, ie “my DH’s job is in leisure and tourism (think cabin crew, travel agents etc)”
Annoying.

“Living her/his/my/their best life.”

“Touch base...”

“At the end of the day.”

“Zero fucks given.” (Generally in a confrontational post written in Facebook about how ‘fierce’ they are)

“If you don’t want me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.”

“So blessed...”

'giving it socks'
'my bad'
'end of'