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Phrases that annoy you

384 replies

Itslit · 21/03/2022 20:18

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

OP posts:
howdyhey · 22/03/2022 07:35

At the height of the Captain Tom craze a lot of people took to saying 'I salute you, sir!' on social media. It always made my skin crawl.

PinkFluffyUnicornSlippers · 22/03/2022 07:51

It needs gone 🤮

bythere · 22/03/2022 07:56

"I don't give a rat's a$$ about....(whatever.)

Um...ok, how did the subject of a rodent's anal sphincter suddenly come into this conversation?

MyAnacondaMight · 22/03/2022 08:19

And just like that.
And that’s a wrap (no, you haven’t made a movie, you have simply finished work for the year).
Little man (just let him be a child).

Frauhubert · 22/03/2022 08:26
  • blessed to be marrying my best friend 🤢
  • it’s the … for me
-Anything with ‘wholesome’. Wholesome weekend, wholesome person, wholesome time
  • anything with ‘this one’- referring to a person
-worn out words of recent times that have lost their meaning and regularly used in word salads: empowering, diverse, kind, mental health(issues)
PurpleFlower1983 · 22/03/2022 08:31

‘Off you own back’ when it should be ‘Off your own bat’. DH says it and it irrationally annoys me even though it’s quite a common one.

Cocobeau · 22/03/2022 08:32

In this day and age

GimmeSleep · 22/03/2022 08:33

"Going forward" DH has started using it at home Angry

Cocobeau · 22/03/2022 08:35

There's a lot to unpack
Living my best life
You do you
Read the room
Telling my truth

Daisydoesnt · 22/03/2022 08:37

forever home

ginslinger · 22/03/2022 08:51

most of what everyone else has already said - I particularly hate 'going forward'.

I heard a new (to me) bit of management twattery yesterday when someone said that it was useful to see me 'getting a peg in the ground'.

Reader, I died.

MyCatEatsPrawnCrackers · 22/03/2022 08:57

@GimmeSleep

"Going forward" DH has started using it at home Angry
LTB!

Going/moving forward
Reach out
Passed instead of died. Passed away is ok but passed makes me think of passing wind or passing the salt.
You got this!
People who confuse wagon and bandwagon.

People who confuse the virgin birth of Jesus and the Immaculate Conception of Mary (obscure, I know!) A friend announced her pregnancy and said it must be an 'immaculate conception' suggesting that she and her husband didn't have sex. I explained that The Immaculate Conception refers to the belief that Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin and has nothing to do with getting pregnant without having sex.

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 22/03/2022 08:59

I hate 'my bad' too. Only happened upon it a year or so ago but it crops up everywhere!

Cocogreen · 22/03/2022 09:05

@ginslinger

most of what everyone else has already said - I particularly hate 'going forward'.

I heard a new (to me) bit of management twattery yesterday when someone said that it was useful to see me 'getting a peg in the ground'.

Reader, I died.

Getting a peg in the ground??? You're not putting up a circus tent I'm thinking so what on earth did he mean???
petalblossom · 22/03/2022 09:11

I can't bear 'comparison is the thief of joy'

berlinbabylon · 22/03/2022 09:11

Just thought of another one that I don't think has been mentioned yet.

"these bad boys" in the context of "I bought these bad boys today" when referring to running trainers. Why are they bad? Why are they boys? Why not say, "I bought these new trainers today".

Also knock it out of the park. Not as bad as some of the others but still annoying.

Laney39 · 22/03/2022 09:21

Just let that sink in Angry

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 22/03/2022 09:45

@Laney39, for you. (Apologies.)

Phrases that annoy you
VeronicaBeccabunga · 22/03/2022 10:07

All the supposedly motivational garbage that is in huge lettering on the walls of the gym, such as:
'Live healthier'
'Be the best version of yourself'
Oh do fuck off, dear.

TildaRae · 22/03/2022 10:27

Pack up instead of packed lunch

Bike to work (or other place you cycle to)

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 22/03/2022 11:13

'Living my best life' is a phrase I've only ever encountered here or possibly on Twitter. Awful.

'Making memories' is so nauseatingly twee it could be marketed as an emetic.

BessieFinknottle · 22/03/2022 11:19

Hate the term 'race to the bottom'.
It's okay if used in the business/economic sense it was first intended, but outside of that usage it's become a way of shutting people down. I'm on the autism threads a lot and parents of 'high-functioning' children sometimes say it to parents of children who have more severe needs, for example. And I absolutely hate it Angry

SVRT19674 · 22/03/2022 11:22

It´s no skin off my nose...yuk

Andante57 · 22/03/2022 11:25

@Katya213

Own it.

I’m going to put My big girl pants on.

I’m never quite sure what ‘own it’ means. Does it mean admit to or own up?

Agree with ghastly ‘reach out’ and ‘you do you’.

Wtf a ‘boob monster’?
I’ve obviously been living in the sticks for far too long and a whole new vocab has passed me by.

fuzzyduck1 · 22/03/2022 11:41

Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife.