Phrases you hate

[Lemon1111]

Mine is ‘buttery soft’…If you haven’t come across this phrase, it is mainly used when describing leggings or other clothes, but now I’ve even seen it being used to describe gold jewellery! Also butter isn't that soft…Margariney soft doesn’t have the same ring to it I suppose.. Anyone else?

"@sammylady37 you’d hate my friend, who recently said she’d normally wear a particular type of dress with “an opaque tight” 🙈😂"

I hate it when catalogues use these terms because they do indeed sound like pretentious wankers, but my friends may well say "an opaque tight" ironically and I would find it very funny.

Actually, I use a lot of these irritating words and phrases ironically. Perhaps people think I'm a twat, but I think anyone on my wavelength would get it 🤔......😖

'It eats well'. Said by the food critics in MasterChef. No, it doesn't. It doesn't 'eat', it's a plate of food which is eaten.

I hate those too.

They're so twee. If you want to call someone a cunt, or a twat, just say it.
It doesn't have to be tempered with cute-sy badger, donkey, or puffin.

“A hundred percentage” - beloved of sports commentators everywhere. No, it’s “ONE hundred percentage”. My children shoot looks at me when someone says it as they know I’m going to start ranting.

Peeps (as in people) - I can barely even write it down I hate it that much.

Less abled / differently abled and other euphemisms for disabled

Boundaries.
Set the boundary.
Hold the boundary.

Who actually ever says this in real life.

everything happens for a reason.

some people clearly haven't experienced devastating and traumatic events.

I came across a bloke posting this in an orthinological group
on Facebook the other day so wondered if it was actually a widely used phrase outside of Mumsnet.

Nuance. Holding space.

'Boils ma piss'

There's a woman at work who says this although I don't know why whenever she says it, she says it in a broad Scottish accent.

Is that where it originated from or something? TV character?

“Pop of colour” - fills me with irrational rage!

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"Step foot", as in "I never stepped foot in her house". It's "set foot", FGS.

'Wiggle room'; a common phrase used my managers in my workplace. An irritating part of management speak

Side hustle.

Sorry, just saw it as a subject header and my bum clenched!

I raise you pump or pop instead of fart. 🤭

CostcoHotDog · Today 16:36

I raise you pump or pop instead of fart.

Pump is Northeast lingo, my nan used to say it and I'm 54. It's actually of German origin.

Boil up the kettle.

There's one chef who puts 'up' with everything. Slice up, steam up, fry up, dice up, mix up...I can't remember who it is.

Love you to the Moon and back

Making memories
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As s non-native speaker of English, I'm flabbergasted by the phrases I've seen here. It's interesting how we see the language differently, and I'm glad to have this opportunity. "Reach out", for example, is one that I find rather nice, boy was I shocked to see how many vetoes it got hehe. If I could contribute to the list, I'd like to say I don't really like the sound of "obsessed", which is very frequent among influencers. It is just me?

Abitofalark · Today 17:11

Boil up the kettle.

Yes, that needs to die in a stagnant ditch, preferably one which has had a dead goat marinating in it for a month.

Yes, marinating, not "mainaDing," you telly tossers! You know who you are...

"my partner in crime" FFS love you are drinking prosecco, not robbing a bank

"What happened to be kind" 🤢

This!