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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,031
    Going back to my yard.

    You live in a house or a flat. Wtf is it a yard?
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Talal said:
    Not a phrase but "like". Those idiots on love island say it every other word. 
    “Love Island” 
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    'Reckon'

    Only when said by news readers on tin pot radio stations where the reader has just left sixth form.

    'Scientists in Germany reckon....'

    Should be 'believe' surely?
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    "pre-planned"

    When else are you going to plan something? After the event?
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,144
    Marquee signings
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    Carter said:
    Some pearlers here 

    My particular favourite/worst one 

    It is what it is 

    The phrase of the vacuous


    So you hate Lee Bowyer : - )
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Double down
  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,688
    People that use the word "Literally" in every other sentence when it has no purpose. "I was literally shitting myself" Sometimes interspersed with"Like" which is equally as useless. "Like I thought like I was having a really shit day" or "You know what I mean like, I was like, literally having a mare like, I mean like, I was, god's honest truth, literally."

    These people do exist.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Expiration date.  WTF is wrong with the customary 'expiry'? 
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    RaplhMilne said:
    I can not stand the. “Can I Get”    However, I can give you one worse than that, I was in a pub, and a twenty something female ordering food at the bar 

    Said

    ”Can I Get The Burger” but “Can I Not Get The Sauce”


    grammatically incorrect.  It's 'may I get?'.  Can implies can you, as in, do you have the ability to get the burger
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    It's always darkest just before dawn. No it isn't, it's darkest when both the sun and the moon are 18° or more below the horizon, unless you are feeling depressed in which case it's darkest just before everything goes pitch black.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    seeing a lot of tweets where people are replacing Bro, Bruh.  Bro is bad enough, but when we're seeing dialects impacting it and you don't come from the good old U S of A, I don't want to know.

    Not a fan of seeing tweets in their regional dialects either.  'I cannae get ma head around etc etc'.  Pathetic.

    As for sayings

    'Getting my ducks in a row' and 'keeping my powder dry'.  I associate them with smug individuals
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    forward planning (as opposed, of course, to backward planning)
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,431
    Not phrases but 'are' instead of 'our' and 'he's' instead of his make me want to stab people repeatedly with a rusty knife.

    'Thought leadership'    AAAAAAGHHHHHHH!
  • CharltonByBlood
    CharltonByBlood Posts: 1,900
    Next 2 weeks will be crucial 
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,916
    IdleHans said:
    LennyLowrent said:
    '24/7...'

    Go 69/1 you tosspoteer



    Worse still, 24/7/365

    Why do you even need the 365? Idiots.
    Incase 24/7  isn't enough 
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Wake up and smell the coffee.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    When someone tells you to 'look' before making a point - I am looking you complete c**t
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    People people on here after we have failed once again to win.

    ”IM HAPPY WITH THAT”


  • bexleyaddick
    bexleyaddick Posts: 478
    'He really knows where the goal is' .. when talking about someone whose job it it is to score goals... 
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Stig said:
    It's always darkest just before dawn. No it isn't, it's darkest when both the sun and the moon are 18° or more below the horizon, unless you are feeling depressed in which case it's darkest just before everything goes pitch black.
    But that's always before dawn. 
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,721
    I realise it's not a phrase........People who begin virtually every sentence with the word 'So'
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Chizz said:
    Stig said:
    It's always darkest just before dawn. No it isn't, it's darkest when both the sun and the moon are 18° or more below the horizon, unless you are feeling depressed in which case it's darkest just before everything goes pitch black.
    But that's always before dawn. 
    But not 'just' before.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    “The model” what fucking model , an airfix one or a guff dull spend chuff all type of model 
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    The Prince-e-Paul said:
    People that use the word "Literally" in every other sentence when it has no purpose. "I was literally shitting myself" Sometimes interspersed with"Like" which is equally as useless. "Like I thought like I was having a really shit day" or "You know what I mean like, I was like, literally having a mare like, I mean like, I was, god's honest truth, literally."

    These people do exist.
    This comes up on Reddit a lot, and you’ll find people arguing that the English language is evolving and it’s now acceptable to use it as a term of exaggeration. 

    But that’s horse shit. ‘Literally’ works in a very specific set of circumstances, i.e. when a statement that works figuratively does indeed work literally. Misusing it cheapens its value. 
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    There was a thread like this a few years ago and someone said “going to ground means to go into hiding, not to fall over” and it wound them up. Now it winds me up too. Sometimes these threads are best left unclicked. 
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,484
    1StevieG said:
    Talal said:
    Not a phrase but "like". Those idiots on love island say it every other word. 
    “Love Island” 
    Another one from there - 'shoot your shot' . 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    "Hopefully" is almost always misused. It means "in a hopeful manner", not "I hope".
    I hope you've got that.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,013
    edited January 2020
    Someone I work with:

    ”Been” instead of being
    And ”Across the piste...”   

    And don’t get me started on “across the piece”..
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    Lurking with intent. 

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