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

[OptimismvsRealism]

"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

It's awful, really cringe..

Collating things.
Nom nom
Doing something with ‘This One’
Love you lots like jelly tots
Any variation of hubby or wifey
We’re pregnant
Sorry but….
FB posts starting’To the person who….
Adults using slang like you’re a G’ or ‘Yas Kween’ (although this is one adult in particular).
Anyone referring to themselves as crazy
Myself. Just say me or I.

Also, I fucking hate those people who do FB posts starting with ‘I hope that the person who tripped over the pavement in this street is ok. I stopped to offer first aid but couldn’t go in the ambulance with them’. Are you trying to get an update? Or do you just want dozens of people telling you how wonderful you are?

Or ‘Does anyone know how the people are in that crash earlier today? Hope everyone is safe’ You don’t give a shit, Julie. You’re just a nosy bastard.

Unique.

That’s it. Something is either unique, or it’s not.

So it can’t be really, very, quite, almost or whatever other word anyone wants to put with it.

Oh oh I have more!
People who use the word 'Allegedly' when what they really mean is 'supposedly'. Usually people who think it makes them sound clever.
See also purposefully when they mean deliberately.

"Can I get..." in a coffee shop, it makes me want to kick people in the legs who are in front of me in the queue, it is "May I have.."

"It is what it is" makes me want to scream, why is it what it is? can it not be changed? If not why not? it is another way of saying "I am giving up"

"with respect" as we all know means the total opposite

I must admit I have lately been guilty of saying "picky bits" I do not know why it has crept into my vocabulary. I cringe as I say it and urgently need to find a new expression. I am getting some in for election night as I am sitting up with friends and I must find a less sickly way of describing the snacks, wait, that is it!! I will just call the refreshments snacks 😁

Emails from professionals that start "Hope you're well"

Especially when the recipient has a chronic illness. Sod off and just do your job

Last week I read someone on here recommend that someone else 'chuck' a jacket potato in the oven then just 'throw' on some toppings. All a bit too Naked Chef really.

Fur baby

Makes me simultaneously 😡and and want to go a bit Hannibal l Lecter

I'm wondering when bored with became bored of...

Laptop lifestyle, it usually goes hand in hand with Mumpreneur, god they're bloody awful phrases..

Agree with PPs on so many of these, especially all the ‘grabbing’ of food/coffee etc!
Reaching out
Circle back
Myself/Yourselves
100%

Using lovely as a noun 'Thanks lovely' or any adjective as a noun. Our local water company has 'Amazing on tap' written on the side of all its vans- doesn't make any sense.
A holistic approach
Close of play
Moving forwards
Call it out

Grab.

As in "grab bag".

Aaaargh! So uncouth.

‘Gotten’ is genuine ‘old’ American.
Some of those words reflect 17th and 18th century spoken English I think.

Shakespeare Henry VI part 2
‘Jack Cade hath gotten London Bridge’

“Oxford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,
You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost
All that which Henry Fifth had gotten?”

We have the phrase,

“Ill gotten gains.”

Then similarly, I think, from The Creed,
“Begotten not made.”

”Forgotten”

alot

May I be part of your enforcement team when you come to power? I will round them up and you can pass sentence!

He was after getting is a direct translation from Irish to English. We also say lots of other things like that. Even though it might be a hundred or more years since our ancestors spoke
only Irish. Due to brain fog I can't think of more examles at the minute.

@Lifeomars

I have a relative who calls snacks “diddles.” That might be even worse than “picky bits.”

'Lay down here' for 'lie down here'
'From the get go' for 'from the start'
'mental health issues' meaning 'sometimes I feel sad'
'hubby'
'crimbo'
'going forward'
'you and I' when 'you and me' is correct. Example- 'It makes no difference to you and me whoever is elected'

Fur baby
#makingmemories
Love you all the world
Tell me you're a .... without telling me
Bubba

Poonami (yuk)
Gifting
The smalls (to describe their children) , also thing 1 and thing 2.
Baby daddy
Fur baby

Also I am getting annoyed every time I hear the word severe. I have severe anxiety, I have severe headaches etc. Everyone thinks they have things the worst.

Also I’m getting sick of hearing the word inclusive everywhere, it’s becoming so prevalent that it is now almost meaningless. Everything is described as inclusive without having to explain why.

Or hubster!!!

Work wife, No,.You’re colleagues, stop bigging it up. You’re both fucking boring
co- production.What? You shared some slides and MS teams now it’s all. coproduction is it Cop onto yourself.

Karen- mysognistic slur that people think it’s fine to use all the time. I know probably not in the same lighthearted category but I hate it.