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.

Mine's not going to be popular here - I hate "Enjoy."

I always want to yell, "Enjoy what?"

"Picky tea" gives me the rage.

Also "x food makes me gag" oh shut up you attention seeking drama queen.

All seven pages - I clearly spend a lot of time angry

My kids are full of Americanisms

As a general rule so called Americanisms don't bother me as most of them (gotten and ain't being classic examples) are no such thing, just perfectly good English that happens to have died out in England, but I cannot abide 'ass'.

To the point that my children, especially my son, when calling someone an 'ass' in front of me know when I give them the look to correct it to arse, which has got me some right funny looks from people who are precious about swearing down the years.

"Team work makes the dream work"

I can’t stand it when people talk about food with “all the trimmings”. Trimmings is a stupid word.

Innit?
I know, right?

‘I’m 36 weeks +6 pregnant’.

37 fucking weeks then.

Cattenberg one up from "snapped and farted"?

Rant on Facebook, punctuated only with emojis, and finished with 'end off,' instead of 'end of,' which is bad enough.

'Happy heavenly birthday'

Referring to a sportsman, usually a fighter, as 'my boy'. ('My boy is gonna bring those belts home')

Someone referring to themselves as a 'foodie', complete with a picture of a greasy bacon cheeseburger from the local takeaway, and heart-eye emojis.

'Give your head a wobble/ shake'

I don't know if this is a Scottish thing, but cryptic posts constantly referring to someone they've fallen out with as 'rats', 'grasses,' and 'snakes.'

'I'm gonna smash it' fist emoji

Spot of tea

Nom Non

🤢

Ticks all the boxes!

Agree with nom nom too. Yuck.

Finger licking good. Double yuck.

And "fur baby"

I detest OMG!
To Be Fair
Another vote for “ He/She turned around & said.....” Had to laugh at one response I heard to that “ What is he a bloody ballet dancer” lol 😂
Oh & the overuse/misuse of literally!

With all due respect
I’m not being funny but

'Turned around and said' drives me mad because it always makes me picture someone previously talking to someone's back.

But I really dislike 'pot' in relation to finances, eg pension 'pot', savings 'pot'. Who saves their pension into a 'pot' on the mantelpiece? There's no 'pot' involved but the term has arisen in the media since pension regulations were changed.

'Going forward' used by managers at work.

Mine's not going to be popular here - I hate "Enjoy."
I agree

'You got this'

I hate "no offence but..." you're obviously about to cause offence and saying that before you say what you're about to say isn't going to cause less offence.

Sorry, not sorry...

'Keep calm and eat custard,' and other stupid connotations of the KEEP CALM thing!

'Cray, cray.' (instead of crazy.) Just say crazy, it's the same amount of syllables.

Like.....

I can't even! ....

Just saying...

It's only one particular person, but there is a commissioner at work who in every meeting says "I'd love to be you... I'd love to do your job... You're the real heroes". Every time.
I just want to say - but you can, you can quit and take the 80k paycut and do our job, no one is fucking stopping you.
So bloody disingenuous from her Ivory Tower.

Totes emosh

Amazeballs

YAAAAAS!

It is what it is

At the end of the day

Just saying

YOLO

I know right!

Irregardless - (Just NO!)

NAICE instead of 'nice.'

So unbelievably fucking annoying and sooo clichéd, and ALWAYS comes from working-class people who WANT to be middle class. They say it coz they're desperate to tell us all they went to a fancy, expensive place, or they live in an expensive house, but are just 'making light of it' by saying 'DH took me to a 'naice' restaurant', or we live in a 'naice' area...'

Just f*ck off. No-one cares and you sound like a moron.