To want to ban these phrases (not light-hearted - this would be my first act as dictator)

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"I'm reaching out" - no, you are contacting me by email

"it broke me" - no, it made you a bit sad

"Picky bits tea" - just no

Everyone says it on here when they want to find the ‘gender’. And then someone replies ‘actually it’s sex not gender’. Then someone else says why does it matter, another will say you should listen to the doctor not strangers on mumsnet, but someone will always know some doctor who got it wrong, then it’ll end with discussions about ‘just waiting’ or getting a nipt test.

And yet I still try and work it out!

No need to take things so personally! People are entitled to dislike phrases. I say 'Can I get...?' and also think 'boils my piss' is amusing ... I'm not throwing my toys out of my pram because others don't like it. Calm down.

'It's always in the last place you look'.
Ugh, makes me so mad when people say that!!!

Nope. It is it needs to be done, not it needs doing. And the worst ones are I was stood or I was sat. It's I was standing or I stood or, I was sitting or I sat. Even British newspapers use these incorrectly.

Dippy tea is horrendous

You’re all my kinda people. I quietly seethe and rage at all those ghastly expressions

Gulag and thin strained soup for all offender’s

i must add I work with someone who had the inability to say specifically and used to say pacifically as if it were an appropriate interchangeable substitute . I pacifically Told the taxi it is an 8pm collection. I pacifically sent an email about this…Aaggggghhh

"Now what to play/make/do/cook... 🤔"

"Earn a good wage/ make good money"

"My work here is done"

People who say "women" when referring to one individual "woman"

Leave poorly alone as well, it's normal and better than people who say they are 'sick' when they have not vomited

"Reaching out' is one of my teeth-gnashing phrases."

Same here!

"Needs Gone" especially an animal on Gumtree

"Up for grabs" in a magazine giveaway page

"I couldn't get worked up about this" on too many posts on MN .

Shower if shit, or (the even more irritating) 'shower' in relation to any politics

My boss does this! And uses ‘illegible’’ instead of ‘eligible’. And somehow manages to get one or both words in to every team meeting.

Oh, and "put me on blast". Urgh!

When people refer to a uterus / belly as a 'stomach', e.g. "She had a baby in her stomach"

That's NOT where babies come from. That's where puke comes from.

AGAIN, people are entitled to dislike phrases and words. That's what the whole thread is about. If a thread is about words and phrases people dislike, maybe you should steer clear if you're that easily upset!

Mumpreneur.......FUCK OFF

I’ll raise you Mumfluencer

That is a horrible one!

Oh these are all terrible

I quite often flop onto teams calls. And then flail around ineffectively before I flop off again.

People who 'do' holiday locations

Also, people who 'go' holiday locations, without 'to'. "We're going Zante this year".

This!!

😂

"I'm starving"

You're not. You'll eat lunch, probably a meal deal, very soon.

Haha, every meeting! You must ne primed waiting for it
say it…say it…they have illegibible needs…yay way to go