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?

'At breaking point'

• very popular on here when anyone dares criticise a service that was shit before the pandemic anyway

Anything that makes the speaker sound like a contestant on The Apprentice. "Going forward", "myself" when "I" / "me" would do, etc.

"you mean vulva?"

No. I said vagina. I wanted to say vagina.

I'm wanting to...

It winds me up when people say "it's like getting into fort Knox" 🙄

‘I have something in my eye’ or worse ‘I have lots of things in my eye’ (as in, crying loads). So twee! 🤢

@heseesyouwhenyouaresleeping

"you mean vulva?"

No. I said vagina. I wanted to say vagina.

Yes!

New normal - sends a shiver down my spine

Covid generation - poor kids don't need that label

Covid baby - yes born this year but seriously!

'Trying for a baby.' Really bugs me. Apart from being irritatingly twee/coy, it makes me pictures someone throwing hoops at a fairground stand where the baby's one of the prizes. (Yes, I do know I'm weird. )

Keep your eyes peeled 😬🤢🥺

"Say it louder for the people in the back" or any variant of it. Enraging.

"new normal" the word you are looking for is "abnormal"
"covid secure or safe" life never has been never was safe even at the very best, people died unexpectedly all the time before covid, younger people died of seeming mild diseases that took a turn for the worse, you can't guarantee the safety of kids at school accidents happen, (not excusing negligence) unprecdictable events happen.

turning any noun to a verb " medalled / gifted etc etc" what was wrong with she won a medal in the race, or he got a gift from Santa how is she medalled in the race or Santa gifted him an improvement?

i can think of more but I will leave it

Oh, another one! "...and that's okay." So patronising and annoying!

Fancy a cuppa(?)

Just turning nouns into verbs needs to be banned

I hate the use of
He/she caught THE COVID
It’s just he/she caught COVID

And written down
It’s in the draw
No, it’s in the drawer

@FestiveFruitloop

'Trying for a baby.' Really bugs me. Apart from being irritatingly twee/coy, it makes me pictures someone throwing hoops at a fairground stand where the baby's one of the prizes. (Yes, I do know I'm weird. )

If you have trouble conceiving I think I may know why

On an evening
On the weekend
On Christmas!

''And here we have'' as the first 4 words of an item for sale. Especially when its puppies. You are not an auctioneer just stop it.

Loungewear
I intend to expunge it from my life once all this is over!

Cis.
Karen - when it's used to insult middle aged women.
Anything spelt in an Americanised way with a z instead of an s, like sympathize, ostracized, accessorized.

'For sure'

...don't know why but it makes me want to scratch my face off

"I've been shielding" - can just imagine someone crouching in their house with a massive medieval shield.
"Front line NHS worker" - I appreciate all that you do but no, you are not in the military, stop using this phrase!

Not a phrase - but 'opined'.

Hospitalised - It is admitted to hospital.

Not knowing the difference between 'brought' and 'bought' is a particular bugbear here on MN.