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.

I hate
"back in the day" and
"I got your back" good, what are you going to do with it?

'School boy/error' gives me the .

not everyone's taste

when showing an outfit or a new decor on an online group for example.

‘Grim’. Fine in its proper context, but generally used on MN to express disapproval or convey how refined you are compared to the OP who did something dreadfully common such as eating leftover takeaway.

'Very much so' sets my teeth on edge. It's powerless in a way, the general public trying to sound interesting on telly.

Most Americanisms do my head in - December 17? No, it's December the 17th this side of the pond.

One word, grab, as in "grab a sandwich" or possibly even worse "grab a quick sarnie".

Touch base

Going forward

Dot the Is and cross the Ts

Calling a tip or piece of advice a hack. Its fine when the information is genuinely quite innovative or unheard of but most of them are just repeats of what's already been said or something blindingly obvious.

Corporate speak "moving forward"

"shop the edit".
"We are loving"

Gifted as in 'i was gifted a pot of jam by my aunt' - surely its given or my aunt gave.

When we first had children money was tight and used to worry us a lot. My mother in law used to like to come round and lecture us about money. I swear if I’d have heard “you need to cut your cloth accordingly” one more time I’d have strangled her!

If I say I am I sure if the way my mother always says ‘aye well you have a good scots tongue in your head, use it!’ Well that came in handy when the first person I asked for directions near Glasgow was French and spoke very little English and couldn’t understand my Scottish accent. I was asking for the hospital and he kept asking ‘Tesco? Yes?’

I hate the phrase it makes me feel angry!

Agree 'boys will be boys' gives me the absolute rage!! Oh we'll just let them act awfully then shall we and teach them to play up however they want because they are boys and 'cant' be held to the same standards as girls? Great.

Also-

'with all due respect'

And all the twee breastfeeding terms like 'give him some boob' 'put him on the boob' 'boob him for a bit' and even today heard 'breastaurant'...

Loving the word FURIOUS at the moment.

Current annoying phrases:

‘You got this’ particularly with mom, momma at the end. Makes me feel stabby!

‘Making memories‘

So many of the above and any reference to Marmite, as in 'he's kind of Marmite'. Or even more annoying: 'he's kind of Marmite, you either love him or hate him.

Yes, we know what you mean when you say 'he's kind of Marmite', you don't have to add the last bit, it was all over the bloody advertising media for months and months.

It's a phrase from a bloody advertisement for a salty spread. It's not clever or witty.

Making memories
The best life
My hubby

''You got this'' - especially when it's someone who is in a wayyyyy better situation than you are, and it's typed to you, like, as if what you have to do is nothing. GRRR!

A few said already...
Bless him/her or we're so blessed
Segway!!
Let's park this one
Asking 'Are you winning?'
Pronouncing deteriorate as 'deteriate'
My bad
I'll ping this across to you - as in email/text

Just been reminded of another one: "family fun day". Only families allowed! And you WILL have fun!

Writing a message with an exclamation mark on social media to someone who has died .. seeing that "RIP!" kills me ... no pun intended.

"I'm sure everything will be fine" to someone going through a hard time .. how the f do you know that ?!

Frankly is a word I hate.

"Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions" is my most despised wanky management phrase ever. You are paid to manage. Come up with some fucking solutions yourself.

I hate when dh says "don't worry". It does not reduce my worry.

Gobsmacked. Instant moron identifier. There are so many other normal words that mean the same thing, why would you use it?