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?

The complexities o doric and English

And the famous shoe shop one - "Fit fit fits fit fit?" 😅

I think new users on here are often surprised at the language that is allowed - traditionally that was suprise that somewhere called Mumsnet allows us to say fuck but I think the use of unalive on here is same thing.

Me too. I think MJ used it a lot.

A myriad of.

Myriad means many, so the 'a' and 'of' are redundant. But I see it everywhere. There are myriad examples of people getting it wrong!

"across the piece". Mostly because it was the favourite phrase of an utter dickhead former employer - but really, what piece? I suspect it originated in a mishearing of "across the piste".

Deleted - just realised I've said this already. 😕

“Coming through”

my parents are “coming through” this weekend. Coming through where?? A tunnel?

“wine”

How are planning on getting through the summer holidays!
wine. Ffs the answer to everything isn’t “wine”. Always conjures up images of Eddie and Patsy completely unable to function without “wine”. So cringy.

“mum always says … “

who’s mum?

That's not my shtick - what the hell is a shtick?

I feel the same when I see “longevity of life”. Longevity literally means long life. “of life” is redundant. And don’t get me started on this phenomena, a bacteria, this criteria. They are plurals. Their singulars are phenomenon, bacterium and criterion.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schtick/

Big ticket items. Arghgghhhh

Sounds like a 1970s gameshow

I hate it when people refer to the Doctor as the Doc or the Police as the Cops. it makes me cringe for some reason.

Vacay for vacation

Introducing a new law which states the size of the price tag should be proportional to the price of the item!

The slogan on Roual Mail vans " national international, global". We live near a huge sorting depot at it really pi**es me off. Global covers the whole planet the rest is superfluous.

I know someone who says with regularity "that's not my barrow" - I always imagine one of those tactile kids' books like That's my Penguin 🐧 And why barrow? It's a town in Cumbria. It doesn't make sense.

I absolute detest the use of ‘peri’ to mean ‘peri-menopause’, which I’ve only ever seen here on mumsnet. It literally does not make sense the way people use it… “I’m peri”, “I’m in peri” “could this be peri?” … I feel like replying “peri what???”

and that’s before we get started on people diagnosing “peri” based on very little vague information.

Derp dives
Due diligence

"Anyroad up"

My mum says it. It makes me murderous.

Flightsoffancy · Yesterday 09:54

Myriad means many

It means ten thousand, in Greek (originally myrias / myriados). It has come to mean countless, of course.

'Lean in'.

Aaaaarrrgh!

My bad.
It's so cringeworthy.

Broke the internet/Went viral

Usually used about something completely banal and pointless

This. ^ It jars me and grates on me more than I can put into words! 😖

See also 'Mat Leave.' IT'S MATERNITY LEAVE!!!!!!!!