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”

Be Kind.

Because the huns that preach it are the least fucking kind people ever!

"Yeah 100%", everything seems to be 100% lately.

At the end of the day.

Passed, instead of died. Passed what? An exam? A turd? A signpost? A parked car?

One hundred percent used for emphasis. Sometimes even upped to two hundred or a thousand percent 😫. Second use of yourself/myself in an attempt to sound official or educated 😫😫

'I'm not going to lie" really irritates me. And "to be fair" was another that was tagged on to everything for a while - also annoying.

“You got this buddy”

“Hey buddy, watcha doing?”

“She/he has my back”

Living your best life.
Making memories.

Most of what others have posted.

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‘So, I turned round to her and said…and she turned round to me and said…’ -I just envisage two girls spinning round having this incredibly energetic conversation!!

Game changer

@Grenlei

Be Kind.

Because the huns that preach it are the least fucking kind people ever!

@Grenlei ‘the huns’ my new favourite phrase!

"in no way, shape, or form"

"Bless"

aaaagggghhhh

Any event or experience being described as a "journey". Often accompanied by tears or some nugget of wisdom they really shouldn't have had to go on a journey to aquire.

"Me and my bestie" cos you can't actually be close friends with someone unless you assign some juvenile, exclusionary and highly irritating bastardisation of a childhood phrase.

@Shinyandnew1

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‘So, I turned round to her and said…and she turned round to me and said…’ -I just envisage two girls spinning round having this incredibly energetic conversation!!

@Shinyandnew1 I can’t stop laughing at that image!

The lack of the preposition "about".

Talking "to" slides or a topic, instead of "about" them.

Being excited "for" Easter, instead of about it (or even better, looking forward to it).

"reaching out"

"cheeky wine"

"jumping on a call"

My favourite thing to say is ‘it is what it is’

I can’t stand the use of the name Karen as an insult, like ‘she’s such a Karen’ it really gets on my nerves.

@threecupsofteaminimum

Cool beans - makes me shudder.

I loathe this as well. It's always said by incredibly square people too.

Oh,oh, oh! And another one - "gifted" or "gifting".

Really grinds my gears.

Which, incidentally, is another phrase I can't stand.

"Hello you". Totally innocuous but makes me want to self-immolate.

“A bite to eat” my in laws say it it’s so annoying I don’t know why

Plus all the others mentioned!

Sliding into my DM's - what does that even mean?

And my bad is just silly, especially when adults say it.

"You've got this"

"Hit the ground running"

"Give you some time back" (when a work call ends early)

Speak truth to power

Lived experiences

“‘Twas ever thus” - used to see this on newspaper comment sections all the time. Meant to sound wise, but usually follows some hugely over simplified comment or truism. Thus is itself very pompous, which only adds to my irritation.

@Shinyandnew1

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‘So, I turned round to her and said…and she turned round to me and said…’ -I just envisage two girls spinning round having this incredibly energetic conversation!!

DPs dad does a variation of this whixh seems to be getting worse

and so then I said to her,
and then you know what she said to me, she said...

he's a lovely man but every conversation related by him takes about 3 times as long as the original chat

‘Turned round and said to me’.

I asked a work colleague once if she became dizzy with all the turning.