Phrases that annoy you

[Itslit]

Mine are:
“We are pregnant” when only one of the couple is physically pregnant
and
“It is what it is”

"Oh go on then" when someone is asked if they want tea/coffee. Like I'm forcing it on them and they're doing me a favour!

DH does this and it drives me mad!
He's said he wants to lose weight and I feel he says this to avoid responsibility for the drink/biscuit/whatever.
Also means he doesn't say "Thank you"

@Laney39

And so it begins Drinks with this one A cheeky Nandos

Yes. Drinks with this one. So irritating.

Also ‘boy did good’
And people posting as their pets on social media and saying ‘my hoomans’ cringe cringe.

Also ‘cool beans’ as a pp poster said!

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Folks is very bad. Folx is worse.

Any British person using y'all.

Heyyyy some oF us live in Texas!

#BeKind.

'I think only 5 people will take the time to copy and post this message. I think I know who they are'- or any variant of this on FB.

Have the ick. A horrible phrase much overused on mumsnet. Never heard a real person say it.

@Wheniruletheworld

I admit I am in the wrong here (re mom) and I apologise to everyone I have pissed off. 🙁

To most of us it is an Americanism though. My husband has taken to using it and it drives me nuts.

@ddl1

'I think only 5 people will take the time to copy and post this message. I think I know who they are'- or any variant of this on FB.

I'm never one of them! I ignore all that rubbish.

Any disclaimer before causing offence.

"No offence but / this is going to sound derogatory or I don't mean this in a derogatory way (yes my manager actually says this)"

"I'm not racist / my best friends /neighbour/gf / everyone I know is black "

You know , the usual BS.

My boss also refers to the team as "chaps" and every time I see this in the chat in absolutely grates me.

Also "playing devil's advocate" - no you don't need to play devil's anything

And " people have it much worse" - when you've actually been in a traumatic situation .

I'm pretty sure more phrases will come to mind now after seeing this thread.

Lol im getting annoyed just remembering the phrases I've managed to write here haha

@ImJustMadAboutSaffron

#BeKind.

YES.

@Sunshineandrainbow

I'm not being funny

Immediately followed by a sentence that confirms that they are indeed being 'funny' 😂

Omg loads that grate on me and wind me up
' My bad'
'Not gonna lie'
'Obvs'
Just having a cheeky glass of wine'
Wine o'clock
Hun
And the new backward way of asking a question' And you were worried Why?!!' Instead of 'why were you worried?!
Many more but I can't think right now

And...
Smashed it out the ball park
Brunch
Super worried, super tired etc ffs just say I'm really tired!!!

"think outside the box" What the fuck are you doing in a box? Are you fucking mental or something?

@kissmelittleass

Omg loads that grate on me and wind me up ' My bad' 'Not gonna lie' 'Obvs' Just having a cheeky glass of wine' Wine o'clock Hun And the new backward way of asking a question' And you were worried Why?!!' Instead of 'why were you worried?! Many more but I can't think right now

Yes, hate it when people call me hun. I have a dear family friend that does it and it's like, no.

My bad

My bad what exactly?? My bad breath? my bad attitude? What?! It's completely meaningless. Usually said in a blasé way by someone who has fucked up and couldn't give a shit.

Also anything that comes from the buzzword bollocks management jargon book my manager appears to have received for Christmas. If I hear another word about sprints, silos or pivots I may hurt someone.

Hubby or even worse... hubster

That's neither here nor there

To most of us it is an Americanism though. My husband has taken to using it and it drives me nuts.

Because seemingly if some of you have never heard of something in your own area, it must be from another country (usually the States) or you barely venture outside your own area or talk to other people outside of it to notice. The “mom” thing is such a weird thing to be annoyed about. Tbh, it makes more sense imo since there is no “a” or “u” in mother unless the word “mother” used to be spelled muther or mather

Also ‘boy did good’
And people posting as their pets on social media and saying ‘my hoomans’ cringe cringe.

I have a friend who does one worse, and posts pictures of her pet but with a message like the dog wrote it. So a picture of her partner and dog on the beach and the message will be something like ‘love playing in the sea with daddy! Hope daddy will share his ice cream with me haha.’

‘The back of 5’

WHEN? WHEN IS THAT?!

This isn’t one but yesterday I was enduring (while DH watched) a football programme when I heard the girl say the team were just trying to keep their head above the parapet.

That’s not the phrase?! You don’t want your head about the parapet 🤔 People say someone put their head above the parapet if they’ve been brave etc. Just really bugged me that she used it so wrongly and clearly didn’t have a clue what it meant 🙈

@willwewontwe

‘The back of 5’

WHEN? WHEN IS THAT?!

That’s the beauty of it 😂 if you arrive at 5.15 you say ‘yeah I said the back of 5.’ If you arrive at 5.45 it’s ‘yeah I SAID the back of 5!’

In seriousness it was used a lot growing up in Scotland and always seemed to be a vague way of saying ‘after.’ So ‘sometime after 5.’

Should of
Doggo
Cheeky monkey (when said about a child)
Fambam

Not a day goes by.