A hill Im willing to die on. A saying that needs to end.

[CurlyWurly321]

AIBU?

Ones I find annoying:

It’s not rocket science.

I’m over the moon.

Took me a moment to work out what you were hoping to get rid of too, but I got there!

I don't think I've ever genuinely used that phrase so I'd be happy to see it go - but not as happy as I'd be if we got rid of various corruptions that make nonsense of a phrase or word! Thing is, I know that they've mostly been introduced by either other country's using them, or by general lack of comprehension but they've now entered popular parlance and the dictionaries (FFS!) have embraced the trend, thus keeping the fecking things in circulation.

Looking at you, "I could care less" and "irregardless" (also "nonplussed" meaning "not fussed" - just cos they rhyme, they don't mean the same!)

Never heard of this?

I vote we lose "We'll have to agree to differ" from someone who is unable to justify their behaviour. It just means "Shut up and go away," when there is no issue to agree or disagree about. I once made the mistake of asking one user, "What is it we're agreeing to differ about, exactly?" to be met by baffled incomprehension.

I presumed the hill reference was the crucifixion of Christ, dying on the hill for his beliefs

The picture in my mind is of soldiers defending their territory, facing the possibility of having to retreat some distance. They want to keep the hill but are having to accept they'd be better retreating a short distance than getting killed in a hopeless attempt to keep the hill.

Ah - victim of Muphry's law again.
...other countries using them...
Jeez.

I have a feeling these words are used by people who are insincere.

For example "I'd lie in front of the bulldozers" or "I'd die in a ditch" or "It is true" or "And I am not making this up" or "Let me be perfectly clear" are used with dishonest intent in an attempt to let the words overwhelm the reality.

Ministry of Truth stuff.

i hate "i am not xxx insert prejudice here but" because 10 to 1 it means they are!

@thinkingaboutLangCleg

I presumed the hill reference was the crucifixion of Christ, dying on the hill for his beliefs

The picture in my mind is of soldiers defending their territory, facing the possibility of having to retreat some distance. They want to keep the hill but are having to accept they'd be better retreating a short distance than getting killed in a hopeless attempt to keep the hill.

i think of Iwo Jima

Oh I presumed it was a reference to Jesus dying on a hill (there is a green hill far away) - he was pretty principled!)

The "hill to die on" phrase has been around for decades (at least) - it's definitely not a MN thing 🤨.

Ministry of Truth stuff

Boiled my piss by the end of the year!

No one has walked into that one yet, I see.

Yanbu. It always seems to be said by people who wouod never actually die for any cause - Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson types.

@MyOhMySimon

That may have been a small experiment on my part

I had to sit on my hands for a while but couldn't help it. Peapod

I had never heard of this phrase until I saw it on MN a few months ago. I'm in my 50s!!

"Living my best life" confuses me

Well of course you are, everyone is

Well, not everyone is, hence the reason "motivational speakers" made a lot of money from that particular motivation.

I was gobsmacked
I was gutted
Both ugly and course sounding. I absolutely hate both these sayings

I quite like "it is what it is". I use it when I'm done talking about something (often)

I. think it's more usually used in the negative on Mumsnet and in rl.
e.g. trying to make a teenager wear a coat, 'Is this really the hill you're willing to die on?' As such, it follows on naturally from 'pick your battles'.

'Red line' and 'draw a line in the sand' are for making it clear that this is an issue where you will stand and fight.

One I don't understand is regional, I think. Someone offers someone something - e.g. a cup of tea, and they reply 'No, you're all right.' Why isn't it I'm all right?

I must admit , I used "It is what it is" a lot when helping my Mum declutter
She's a hoarder and when I picked up a piece of material (either something she had being sewing or more likely taken apart)

"That's a pair of trousers"
No that was a pair of trousers but there's no waistband
"I'm going to sew it" ( she'd been going to sew it for 2 years)

It is what it is - a bit of material.
Much , much kinder than it's a shredded up bit of fabric, one of six pairs that you took the waistband off . So instead of six pairs of trousers you got six piles of rags

IIWII was nicer

I think 'It is what it is', is fine; says it all really .

One I don't understand is regional, I think. Someone offers someone something - e.g. a cup of tea, and they reply 'No, you're all right.' Why isn't it I'm all right?*
Just means no you’re ok, no need to trouble yourself, put yourself to any bother etc. When I have said it anyway.