To ask you what your least favourite phrase is?

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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.

‘A red lip’... what, just one of them? Won’t that look as stupid as it sounds?

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Apart from the first one, which is just bloody stupid, the others to me just seem to be trendy and overused.

Oh and pet hates are "should of, would of, could of". How bloody hard is it to get this right? It annoyed me when I saw this on my sons school report. If the teacher can't get this right, what chance do the children have?

Everything happens for a reason 🤮 (bullshit)
You make your own luck (also bullshit)
Horses for courses

I despise “no offence but...” and things like “just saying”
The just provide already rude people to be nastier!

Not a phrase, but we have a Director at work who starts all his emails to the business area with:

Guys,

Apart from being fucking stupid, I'm pretty sure a fair percentage of the 250+ recipients are female.

I agree with most of these but not "I'm sorry that you feel that way"

It's perfectly possible for someone to be upset by someone else's behaviour when there was nothing wrong with that behaviour.

A phrase along the lines of the above acknowledges that you know they have been hurt and are sorry that that is the case, even if you don't regret the behaviour that caused the hurt.

‘I’m going to be honest with you’...
Oh, because normally you aren’t then?

"Everything happens for a reason" .. especially right after my miscarriage

Oh and
"Reader .. I married him"
or any other " Reader.." shite!

Any way, shape or form.
The rest is history

‘I’m going to be honest with you’...

I have used this once for good reason. I had to discuss a restructure with my team. None of the team managers knew what was exactly going on/the outcomes for our teams, as we weren't told from up above.

When people are hearing news like this and a manager says "I don't know exactly what's going on, or what the outcome will be", they tend not to really believe that.

That's the only situation where I have used that phrase, as I was genuinely in the dark.

I do agree though, it can make people think, so all other times you spin bullshit then.

‘With all due respect.’ The implication being that no respect is due.

‘Mis-‘ anything, like when Hillary Clinton ‘misspoke’ ie lied through her teeth.

‘Stepping back’, ugh.

‘Filled her full of arms and legs’ - said by a man I know of RE getting his gf pregnant 🤮

All due respect

To be honest with you

I don't mean to be rude

Wine o'clock

Date night

Burning the candle at both ends

Doing the deed/Did the deed

So many more!!

‘Filled her full of arms and legs’ - said by a man I know of RE getting his gf pregnant 🤮

Jesus, that's horrible!

"is it not time.. "

"There's nothing worse" when talking about toothache - no, Sandra, I think you'll find terminal cancer, torture or a million other things are, in fact, worse, you cretin!

"Yassssssss girrrrrrrrrl" fuck off with that shit.

"Thoughts & prayers" esp after a mass shooting or some other tragedy!

PP mentioned "naice" I'd never seen that before MN & at first couldn't work out wtf they were saying. Thought it was a typo.

"All my love"
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'Massive red flag' and it's variations ... just really irritates me, don't know why.

Cattenberg, one up from "snapped and farted"?

@PhilomenaChristmasPie, LOL, I think you might be on to something there. People spent a lot of time puzzling over “snapped and farted”.

I can understand why people hate “gobsmacked”, but I quite like it. I was on another forum a few years ago, and some North American posters were sharing their favourite British English terms. The winners were “wanker”, “gobsmacked” and “wheelie bin”.

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Famalam! Just no!

My Nanna used to say School days are the best days of your life. That made me so annoyed. Also people please stop using naice makes me want to scream and My bad - just no no no no.

making memories...and living my best anything...oh and the classic my kids are my world....bleugh!!!!!!!