Saying that grate on you... Lighthearted

[CynthiaRothrock]

Lighthearted subject, What innocent sayings really grate on you? Mine is "grown ass/arse".
My sil says it all the time and it is like nails down a blackboard everytime I hear it! I don't know why. It's usually said after unsolicited advice from mil etc. She will say "I'm a grown arse woman, I don't need her to tell me how to....." or "he is a grown arse man he should....." (usually said about her ex)
I've noticed it pop up on a few threads recently too. It is obviously not affecting my life in anyway, I just cringe when I hear it! So it got me thinking, what saying annoy you?

Uptick
Circle back
Webinar
Nom nom

@Fizbosshoes

*“So she turned around and said...” Gives me visions of people spinning around while talking to me!*

Lol! I had a work colleague who used to say that all the time.
My absolute hate is
"I literally died"
NO YOU REALLY REALLY DIDNT AS YOU ARE HERE TELLING ME THE STORY!!!

I don't care for 'work colleague'.

It's a tautology, surely?? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m broken
I’m devastated........over really not much at all

Well done you!

Really hate it.

"You win the Internet today"

Arrrggghhhhh it's usually after a really lame comment too 😂

“I give everything 110%” or any variation of someone eluding to giving more effort than possible.

I don't care for 'work colleague'.

Oh. what is a better phrase to use?
They weren't my coworker because we dont work in the same place (and I cant read that without first reading "cow")

"to die for"

Generally when something food related, hate it.

My feeling is 'go on then'

I'm sure there are others, but the one that comes to mind immediately is "we're all in the same boat". It's being said often about the current pandemic, but we're not - some people's "boats" are considerably more sturdy than others!

Cancelled.

Not as in the correct use of the term, e.g the meeting was cancelled but in terms of a person.

The celebrity was “cancelled”.

Reaching out
Turned round and said
This too shall pass (aaaaaaaarrrrggghhh.......)
Any use of incorrect words, such as brought instead of bought and your instead of you're.

People always quote "turned around and said" in these threads but I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it.

“Changed his/her bum”

Just so needlessly gross

‘Grown arse?’ 😲.

Never heard that before, and I hope I never will again.
Brings to mind one of those enormous bottoms I see around here now and then - clad in thin, skin-tight leggings, with a short top, so that whoever it is is brandishing their mountains of wobbly arse in the general public’s faces.

Also dislike any phrase that someone overuses as if it’s the correct and only way of expressing something. I remember one thread on here where the OP described her colleague “throwing her under the bus” and used that exact phrase at least 3 times if not more

sadly died....ffs!
So and so sadly died.
Just no.

There used to be a traffic reporter on the radio who most days reported a "nasty accident"
It made me wonder what a nice accident would be like!!

@CynthiaRothrock

So many good ones! I forgot, I overheard two young women in the shop the other day, one of them used the phrase "lol" in response to her friend. 1)What her friend said was not funny 2)she did not actually laugh... Just said the word lol.

DS does this, he gets the side eye

Phrases don't really bother me as such, it's more poorly constructed sentences and made up words.

Examples:

Just no
You do you
Nom nom - ARGH!
Famalam

I don't like "picky tea" either but only ever saw it on MN so thought it was made up..... but 2 people on my social media have started using it

Basically I cannot stand anything that bastardises the English language

Means everything to me🙄

To be fair

I actually thought I was being fair.

Taking the knee

Where??

I hate it when someone writes ,no? At the end of the sentence.
It makes me irrationally angry.

So something like.

Surely you want your children to eat their veg, no?

Overuse of 'literally', 'big' and 'like'.

@Fizbosshoes

I don't care for 'work colleague'.

Oh. what is a better phrase to use?
They weren't my coworker because we dont work in the same place (and I cant read that without first reading "cow")

Colleague means someone you work with so you don't need the work bit, they are a colleague!

I also hate "change their bum", it sounds like it will be swapped for a new one!

Lap/lapping it up.
Just makes my stomach turn for some reason. Awful phrase.