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?

I hate ‘grandkids’, which is utterly illogical, since I say ‘kids’ all the time!
But mine are grandchildren.

I agree!

And i can't bear the American: grand baby.

And 'to be honest' creeps in an awful lot.

hubby
kids
my babies (when you mean your children)
holibobs
biccies
avo (avocado)
mash potato (it’s either mashed potato or just mash)

I could go on; I’m very easily annoyed by language.

and people who say pronOUnciation rather than pronunciation. Yeeeee gods. My husband does it and it’s almost led to divorce a few times. The barbarian.

My house my rules

its a home not a prison ffs if you don’t wear shoes in the house just ask people to take them off or you always eat dinner at the table just say this not going into some speech about rules

Sugar daddy.

Ugh - makes my skin crawl.

Diarise, as in put something in the diary.

And “deep dive” as in looking into something in detail.

I hate saying "super" to describe something eg "super tired" or "super close"

Can I say my babies when I talk about my cats?🤣

That was going to be mine 😬
I can't cope with the fact there's an entire word missing and people don't notice!!!

Affect and effect used in wrong context.

Frocks and slacks .

Lessons have been learned

If only they were ever learned on these threads.

On point

I can’t believe I was so slow with ‘to be fair’!

Not read thread so not sure if these have been said but..

"Furbaby/babies"
"Dogmum/dad or Catmum/dad"
Speaking as if you're your dog and saying things like "My mum took me for a walk today".
Announcing a pregnancy with anything along the lines of pets with a baby vest that states "My siblings have paws!" or similar.

Basically, anything that implies pets are children and you're their parents/siblings.

No, just no.

Same goes for small humans.

@WickieRoy thanks. I’ve seen Scottish posters say it before too and am curious. I’m Scottish, lived here most of my life and am not young but the only Scottish people I’ve ever heard directly using it are the TikTok obsessed youth in my house and I know they’ve absorbed it from TV/SM. I’m not accusing posters of making it up, there are big differences all over the country and I am wondering where “gotten” is commonly used.

’Myself and dh/whoever….’ at the start of a post.

Dear poster, please just write, ‘Dh and I…’

Get in the bin

Shut the front door

Living my best life

knocked it out the park

Smashed it

We've got you..(.we've got me what? )

He done amazing (football pundit speak)

“It is what it is”
hear that all day everyday at work 😫

A word, not a phrase, but ‘brekkie’ - which I’ve just seen elsewhere.
FiL used to say ‘brekker’ which is even worse.