to find the expression 'loved up' really irritating ?

[MaryAnnSingleton]

not sure why, it just grates.

no Swedes that's loved up the arse

onebatmother - Never saw nor heard of that happening with ecstacy. It happens to most men on cocaine, though.

hilarious

1. loved up

To be high on ecstasy. Was that DJ really good or did I just think so because I was all loved up?

1. loved up

The feeling of love and well being whilst high of drugs normally strong Class A types. I'm soooo loved up

From Urban Dictionary.

Onebat

Loved up though is that state where all you want to do is have sex with that one person. You can't be bothered to eat. You scarcely go out. Then one day the fog lifts and you notice he has left his trollies on your carpet skid-mark upper-most.

Call centre chimps that say "yourself" instead of "you" make me make voodoo dolls. In fact, all call centre chimps just make me spit..."Hello! How are you today? Now the reason I'm calling yourself..." is because you a billionth of a gene short of being an amoeba.

"It's all good" comes from Jerry Maguire as in "It's all good Jerry". Quite liked that.

estate agents say 'yourself' too - hate it...
also 'utilise' - what's wrong with 'use' ?

I hate . . . "On Trend" as in these wedges are sooo "On Trend".

Bluddy Grazia

I hate "My bad" with a vengeance.

But that is more of an American expression.

what does 'my bad' mean? as in you can kiss my bad ass?

I used loved up on a posting just yesterday!
Nothing to do with drugs though. I was talking about a holiday with DH when we were first together and shagging constantly. That's the only context I've ever used/heard the expression, to describe a couple in the first wave of romance.

onebatmother - I wish. Rather, it's used to mean "My mistake/fault". As in:

"You said this but it wasn't so"
"My bad".

Arrgh!

That is very, very bad.

This is the BBC top 50 idiotic business speak phrases

TheMag7 LOL at some of those. I love low hanging fruit for a quick win.

"idea showers" instead of "brainstorm". Fanjo's I say

I'm loving 'granularity' in at number 41.

Partly bcs it exemplifies how these Brent things come about. Someone important has said something along the lines of 'we're going to be so meticulous in our attention to detail that we'll be working at an almost granular level' .

His/her immediate inferior has clutched it to his bosom - but made it his own with a dash of middle-management success-manual make-noun-a-verb-speak, and a smidgeon of 'I can speak English grammaratically, you know'.

Thence 'granularity'.

44. "I was told I'd be living the values from now on by my employers at a conference the other week. Here's some modern language for them - meh. A shame as I strongly believe in much of what my employers aim to do. I refuse to adopt the voluntary sectors' client title of 'service user'. How is someone who won't so much as open the door to me using my service? Another case of using four syllables where one would do." Upscaled Blue-Sky thinker, Cardiff

Upscaled Blue-Sky thinker is so a MNer.

"...immediate inferior". Fantastic. By far the most subtle insult I've heard all week.

At work I hate going forward, as management speak. I don't think I've heard anyone in real life use it, and wouldn't talk to them again if they did. People at my work are always using it, apart from me.
A friend who was already at the end of her tether on the phone to a call centre got so cross at the person saying yourself she yelled the grammatical explanation as to why this was incorrect down the phone.

It's heading towards pedant corner, but when people over emphasise a pause..............................

And the adding of percentages to emphasise your commitment i.e. "I'm 110% behind it"

All of these phrases seem to come from 'Brenters' in management, interviews with footballers, or LK

Anyone else cringe when Lorraine Kelly shows how down with her bad self she is and declares she's lovin' Bling. She's about as down with urban speaking as she is with breakdancing!

'Complimentary' is a bit of a sickener.

I was talking to another MNer the other day and I said they were pedontic. They said 'You mean pedantic'. I said 'You see what i mean'

And I walked into a bar and heard this little voice keep saying 'wow! You look great. Nice outfit.' It was the peanuts. They were complimentary.

Sorry. Tim Vine is on TV

TheMagnificent7 - Are you male?