To really hate this phrase

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And I am being unreasonable

Mucky pup.

It makes me cringe whenever it is used to 3 year old DS. I have no idea why, I am sure its unreasonable, but does anyone else have a strong reaction to a harmless phrase?

My truth/ Your truth/ Their truth needs to die. If someone says or types this I instantly switch off and can't listen to, or read another word.

Boils my piss is just nasty.

Ballache. Mostly said by women. It's just...wrong, isn't it?

I agree with ‘my truth’. It’s irritating.

This isn’t some epistemological academic discussion. Out in the real world everyone can’t just have their own personal version of truth.

What they mean is far closer to ‘my feelings’. Which is ok and would actually be a more useful framing of the discussion.

I've seen it a lot on here and FB: "caught feelings". What's wrong with "falling for him"?

Trigger warning before every FB post

I have anxiety

Narc

Toxic

"Creative" swearers who think they sound wacky, aka "cunting cockwomble". Just say fucking twat.

InefficientProcess
I also find "my truth" annoying.

My feelings, my perspective, my experience, my point of view, my side of the situation = all acceptable and far more accurate

The boy did good! - When someone is showing off expensive things her bf/dh has brought her. Like he is her obedient dog! Makes me cringe.

And just like that! - This is so overused for everything on social media!

Could of / would of etc
“Myself” when it should be “me”.
“Shop this season’s bargains”. What happened to buying things? Why do we all have to shop them instead?
To “reign in”. It’s rein. The metaphor comes from restraining a horse by using the reins.

I agree with nearly everything already mentioned - except I can't stand 'belly'! Tummy is really twee (when used by adults), but belly is horrible - putting me in mind of beer bellies and Sir John Falstaff etc. Bum I also hate - backside, arse, butt are all fine for me, but bum is somehow both twee and vulgar. Sorry - there's no rationalising these things!

Someone has mentioned 'have your back'. Yes, I really hate that, and I couldn't tell you why. I understand the shooting/battle metaphor, but I still hate it.

On MN people seem to think that you do things 'off your own back' when it's a cricketing metaphor and it should be 'bat'. Also, you don't 'step foot' in somewhere, you 'set foot'.

I think, for me, the common denominator for all these annoying phrases is a lack of originality - just following and parroting the latest things which usually derive from American psycho-therapy terms (like 'your truth' etc).

I loathe belly @CoffeeCantata.

I get my small child to say tummy. It’s twee. But he’s 3. So twee is fine.

Belly just sounds a bit disgusting.

Estate agents’ property blurb using “nestled in” for every single fucking house location. Even the mid-terrace ex-council next to the gigantic gasometer is “ nestled” Arggh! Also the Americanism “good job!” said loudly to children for doing well - cannot help thinking they are being congratulated for successfully pooping. Just no. Description of death as passing, particularly when the death has been sudden or violent. Also, I must be a right git, nearly all of the previous suggestions annoy me!

When someone says ‘boom’ at the end of a sentence oh do bog off

Also ‘bad boy’ when not used to describe naughty male kids. ‘Look at this bad boy’ when talking about a barbell or an armchair or a car - just WHY?

A relative of mine would call revising for exams 'boning up'. I remember a conversation one weekend when he asked if I needed to 'bone up' on my maths and I felt physically ill.

Also hate 'curl up' and as 'curl up on the sofa with the tv'. I always imagine someone wound up like an arctic roll.

Also can't stand being asked if I slept well. I have no idea why.

Does anyone actually say that in a not taking the piss manner?

In fashion magazines…

the trouser
the shoe
red lip

The pant too

Saw that for a pair of trousers - the apartment pant

There’s a line in Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan - ‘as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing’. It always made me think of the earth in a sturdy pair of knitted bloomers.

My friends DM always used to say 'grubs up' when dinner was ready. It used to really put me off eating

I've heard alot of "this too will pass" and "it is what it is " since my DP died.

Also "they mean well" out of my own mouth when wanting to backhand someone into the middle of next week for using those expressions.

No this will not pass, he's going to stay dead and I'm permanently altered, and while technically "it is what it is" I'm fully aware that I cannot change my current reality, so thank you Captain Obvious.

Ooh needed to get that off my chest. Thank you.

"As a mother..".

Meaning 'as a very special category of human being I think you'll find my opinion is of significant more worth than the rest of you with your pointless existences'.

'You do you.'

No. Fuck off.

'My lil' man.'

Often used on social media underneath a photo of an eight year old picking his nose and wearing a flat cap.

I love this 'space' whatever happened to' room'
'I'm obsessed !' drives me bonkers and generally any nouns now used as verbs
parenting
gifting
birthing etc

'Dance like no one is watching.'

Please don't.

Also can't stand being asked if I slept well. I have no idea why.

To quote the great deadpan American comedian Stephen Wright, the correct answer to “Did you sleep well?” is “no, I made a few mistakes”.