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?

"Our NHS" being used by every political party, for their own political gain

‘Grab’ not buy, holibobs and ..cringe..Hubbie!

"And so it begins............"
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Gotten! I bloody hate it.

I'm with @Trumpetjelly too

You're not a disorder. You're not "autism spectrum disorder" which is what you are saying in @Trumpetjelly 's example.

I've just had a work email from a supplier 'reaching out' to 'touch base' with me. If it wasn't such a limited pool, that would be an ex-supplier.

Give your head a wobble

Hate this phrase and have never heard anyone say it in real life, just on Mumsnet!

Yes! Drinking prosecco, splendid!!!

May I just say something? The most hated phrases here tend to be the ones we, as non-native speakers, feel we should learn in order to sound more native-like. 😂

Medalled is awful, I agree; it really irks me. °Verbing the noun weirds the language.^ as per Calvin and Hobbs.

Calling DC Prince or princess. Especially when they are little terrors and wear tops saying ‘’Mummy’s Little Prince/Princess’

Never mind actually naming them Princess....

Brits saying ‘pissed’ when they mean ‘pissed off’ really gets up
my nose.

Oh so many, I don't know where to begin...

• Tommy K / Maccy D's/ Trackie B's etc are perhaps the most irritating
• Gifting / gifted as a verb
• Cutesy, twee swearing like "wankpuffin" and "cockwomble"
• As many pp have mentioned, the singularising of pairs (a trouser, a lip etc)
• Boob. Boob feeding, boobing, and the absolute horror (thanks to a recipe page on Instagram) chicken boobs 🤢

-Myself/yourself, used incorrectly on a daily basis by the 22 year old lad I sit by at work. I hear him on the phone all the time saying things like "please give myself a call" or "I will put it in the post to yourself"

• The same lad must also have a thesaurus on his desk, as his phone notes never use the word "said". Expressed, averred, stated, declared, asserted, commented.... But never said!
• People thinking they're clever for using "I" when it should actually be "me" e.g. "love from John and I"
• Starting Facebook posts with "when...."
• "As if" when you mean "I can't believe"
• "little" overused to death - little drink, little workout, little holiday.....

Oh, there are so many more but my mind's gone blank 🤣

Being 'baffled' at a decision someone made that's nothing to do with me.

Piss off.

Sentence that starts or ends with "to be fair" drives me insane 😩

Yep. They're not 'baffled' they're scornful.

'Pick me'

Gotten. Guaranteed blood pressure spike for me. I’ve just seen ‘have you never gotten a …’ on another thread. No, but I’ve had one. ‘It’s gotten all messy’. No it hasn’t, it’s become messy. Absolutely meaningless word.

Ooh and also gifted. Yes, appreciate it has some ancient legitimacy but I’m going to suggest that 99% of people who use it mean given. ‘We were gifted a dinner service’…or were you given it ?

Hubby/Hubster

Cuppa - actually makes me vomit a little. Go wild and use the extra three letters and turn it into cup of tea

Hollibobs - grow up

Brew - vile

Applause to those who have already called out pack lunch, my absolute nemesis.

It’s a wonder I can get through the day 😂

Red sauce - it’s ketchup

Not a phrase but those who pronounce broccoli as brock-o-lie. It’s brock-o-leigh

@beautifuldaytosavelives you do know that gotten is a very normal everyday word that never fell out of use in Ireland, Scotland and parts of England? The fury against it still bewilders me tbh, it's like taking against "the" or "have".

"Brains trust"

The use of “gotten” in Scotland must be quite localised. I’m genuinely interested in where it’s commonly used (not trying some sort of “gotcha”). The only people I have ever using up here js DC2 and friends who are aged 15 and for them is definitely an Americanism.

Gotten is a normal word in Ireland. It is a waste of time pointing that out here though WickieRoy, same as Hallowe'en. It must be an 'Americanism' so must be cringed/shuddered/raged at.

Unlike 'oh my days' which is apparently okay and does not at all make the speaker sound like a twit.😀

Can't help re Scotland @Coughsweet - it's a very normal word in all of Ireland (definitely not an Americanism - it arrived in the US from the UK and Ireland and then fell out of use in parts of the UK), and Scottish posters are usually equally vocal about that, but I don't know where they'd be from.

Oh tell me about it @Katiepoes , I've had this same conversation countless times over the years under multiple names. See also haitch, Santa, bring Vs take etc etc etc.