To be annoyed when people say ....

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low key ? For example someone says " does this top not low key go with these jeans" it seems to be used all the time now. Maybe annoyed is not the right word but it's irritating 🤣 . Light-hearted post really. Are there any sayings that seem to be "trending" that annoys you ?

Yes i agree i rarely hear "low key" spoken but see all the time on YouTube comments. I could imagine the people that say it out loud are Love Island, Molly-Mae, etc type people

What really annoys me at the moment is the overuse of the word 'grab'. Grab a drink; grab something quickly at the shop; grab the first thing I saw this morning; grab a bargain. I know it is meant to suggest haste and how absolutely busy everyone is - but it's ubiquitous and irritating. New verb please!

I dislike this one also. A family member once used that phrase so many times, describing a conversation they had had, that when they finished, I said ‘you must have been dizzy by the end of your chat’. I’m not sure they understood my joke. Maybe it was just as well.

But 'turned around' is not the same as 'turning around'.

e.g.
I was in the post office queue and someone called my name; I turned around to see who it was.

How else would I describe that I moved to look behind me?

I've had to catch myself to not use colloquialisms like this as my 3 year old takes it literally see also "jump" 😂

Something dropped last night (eg song, album)

They are asking dont you think this top goes with these jeans.? They like the top with the jeans but for some reason add in low key. Maybe to say they go well together in an understated way.

Agree with 'so' at the start of a sentence
also hate 'wine o'clock' and 'going forward'.

Oh I quite like those 🤣

Eh? If someone 'turned around and said' then that suggests they were turning around when they said it......

I was in the supermarket, someone was pushing into me with their trolley, so I turned around and asked them not to.

The point of turning around was to address the person behind me.

It adds bullshit, probably 😂
Maybe a sense of importance.

Allyship is different from allegiance. There's no element of loyalty to allyship, just supportive friendship. Allegiance is following loyally, suspending one's own beliefs.

"Reach out" instead of "get in touch with"

I literally died. Did you really?
I literally nearly died laughing. Eh?!
I gave 110% or 200%. I agree 200%. No, you didn’t.

Yes it that instance you physically turned around because they were behind you but people use that saying just to describe that they responded in general .

‘In all honesty’ annoys me, just as ‘not gonna lie’ does.

I thought that ‘a lot’ was still two words.

I haven’t heard low key in the context mentioned, but you learn something new every day.

I love "going forward" when I'm trying to pretend I know what I'm talking about in work scenarios 😅

If I wanted to describe that I was talking as I was turning then I would say "as I was turning around I said" - turned is the past tense of turn ie. I turned and then I spoke.
Turning is active - happening at the time.

One I see all the time in the UK is "bin collections". But the bin is not collected - only the contents. The bin is left behind for you to drag back in the rain.

Do they?
In what context?
"I answered the door, the postman asked my name and I turned around and said Den Haag"...like that?

"'No' is a complete sentence."

Well, grammatically speaking, it's not. There's no finite verb.

But if you mean 'the word no conveys everything necessary' - that's not always true either. If it's 'no' to sex, then that 'no' is all you need. But if it's 'no' to, say, a proposal of marriage, then it would probably be polite and reasonable to give the other person a bit more to go on.

What really pisses me off about the phrase, though, is the implication that only full sentences convey meaning, so that if you consider 'no' a full sentence, it carries some kind of authority which it wouldn't have just as a word.

Bollocks. And 'bollocks' in this case is a full paragraph with footnotes and a glossary at the back.

Never come across low key before (London). Will ask 15 yo DD about it when she gets home.

Yes !

Teenage speak - they will grow out of it!