Phrases you’d like to ban

[YouBoughtMeAWall]

I’ll start

Support bubble.

I’ll happily go the rest of my life never hearing this phrase. In fact even the word bubble has exceeded its usage quota for the entire rest of time.

What is yours?

@TornadoOfSouls

Excited for

‘Mental health’ when they mean ‘mental illness’

Yep me too. I'm a CPN and we often get referrals from, for example the police or the Housing Department saying "this person suffers from mental health".

All of the shitty corporate speak 'reach out'. 'going forward' etc 'service user', WTAF

and 'Like'. People who's very other word is like. 'I was like' and 'she was like' Miriam Margolys (sp?) was very funny on Graham Norton with Will.I.Am on this subject

"During these difficult times". "Anxiety is/was through the roof". They are so bloody over used it makes me cringe

'At the end of the day....'
'I am writing...'
Both a phrases a pointless waste of words!

Saying 'less' when you mean 'fewer'
Saying 'amount' when you mean 'number'
Saying 'of' when you mean 'have'
Yes, I am a grammar pedant!

I agree with all of these.

I'd also ban, 'Mum, where's my pe kit/homework/thing that's right in front of my face.' Followed by the, 'No, it's not, I've looked there.' Except Mum-eyes are somehow better are finding stuff than Lazy Teenage-eyes, and it's always where I've said.

• Both phrases are a pointless waste of words!

Arrgghh!

Friendship group, it sounds so wank and MC

My favourite phrases, just to wind up my family:

'Where did you last have it?'
'Aww, you're tired!'

‘Off of’. Fuck off (not ‘fuck off of’)!!!

People who end sentences with "no?", it makes me feel homicidal for reasons I don't understand😂 .
"Yes?" at the end of a sentence I find mildly irritating but nothing like the hideously grating "no?"!

Random’. In its proper context, it’s fine (e.g. ‘The survey chose 100 people at random’) - it’s when people use it to describe something that’s actually the opposite of random.

“Back In the day”, jeez

I'm glad it isn't just me!

“The science.” Just the one, then?

Not scientific data, not the facts, no. Just following the science..

"Hard working families", makes me want to punch every single politician that trots that out.

"You wouldn't say that if you had lost a loved one",. How would anyone know what every single bereaved person is thinking?

"Living my best life" What does that even mean???

"I'm a key worker ", boils my pi**, now started to be popular again

Wow. Just wow.

The pursed lips and eyeroll can be felt just from those words.

And it is usually something that doesn’t merit a bloody wow in the first place..,.

Sentences starting with
Basically...

Hun.
Boobing the baby.
Lend me your line eyes.
Bubble up.
Tier bloody 4.
Lockdown

Listen to your gut;
Everything happens for a reason;
I was sat / I was stood;
Would of / could of, etc.

@NymphInYellow

I agree with all of these.

I'd also ban, 'Mum, where's my pe kit/homework/thing that's right in front of my face.' Followed by the, 'No, it's not, I've looked there.' Except Mum-eyes are somehow better are finding stuff than Lazy Teenage-eyes, and it's always where I've said.

Been there

"Hard working families", makes me want to punch every single politician that trots that out.

And it’s always ‘young families’, isn’t it? Why specify young? Is the parents who have to be young or the kids - or both? Is there a cut-off age where you no longer need support, like not being able to order off the children’s menu at the Toby Carvery after the age of 12?

Pretty please.
Baby steps. (WTF is wrong with ‘small steps’?)

Both make me cringe - so utterly twee and little-lispy-girly-sounding.

Not a phrase, but ‘gifting’ gets right up my nose, too.

"I am too busy for.." whatever the other person is doing, a lot of it school related.

No you are not. If you were that busy, you wouldn't be on social media boasting about how busy you are.
What you want to say is: "I am DISORGANISED". Or lazy.

Safe
Resilient
Selfish
Karen as an insult
The c word

Also excited for
Impacted
Gifted

New normal.

Agree on 'key worker'. Those words absolutely nothing put together.

Also hate 'the new normal'. No this is not normal, it's something we have to go through to get back to normal.

'As a precaution' makes me want to scream. Coming from certain professionals it means your life is going to become Unnecessarily harder just to cover their back.

The absolute worst of the lot is 'awww bless you.' So patronising.