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Phrases you hate
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Just start referring to "the rozzers" to get your own back.valleynick66 said:‘The Feds’ when mentioning the police. Have we moved to the US?0 -
Talking of radio, that's a perfect segue into my next hated phrase. There's an advert on the radio that uses the phrase 'taking candy from a baby'. So annoying, it should be 'taking candy from a kid'. On a practical level babies shouldn't have candy, so if you take candy away from one it's the best thing you could do. On a linguistic level it robs us of the wonderful alliterative quality of candy from a kid.0
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"work colleague"
FFS where else do you have colleagues other than at work?!? That's what the word means - a person I work with.
To an English speaker, 'colleague' requires no explanation.
"my lived experience"
self evidently to have experienced anything one has to be alive at the time, unless we're giving house room to any sort of 'ante-natal experience' or 'former lives' bullshit!
"in my opinion" is massively overused as some sort of redundant emphasis - as if the very fact the speaker is expressing it adds weight or credibility.
The absolute opposite is true - I know it's your opinion cos I can see and hear you saying it, your mangling of the English language undermines your contribution.
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Using 'hey' instead of hello.3
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Maybe they're of Scandinavian descent and are actually saying Hej?ME14addick said:Using 'hey' instead of hello.0 -
"Yeah, no, yeah" - how the f*%k has this nonsense become acceptable?! Fairly sure it came from thick-as-pigshit footballers.
Interviewer: "Tony, a tough game today against a side 2 divisions higher than you. On reflection, quite a lot of positives you can take, despite the 2-0 defeat?"
Tony: "Yeah, no, yeah. I mean, it was really tough out there, but we've acquited ourselves really well against a great side.......etc, etc, etc."
Wtf is "yeah, no, yeah"?2 -
Higher up the intellectual scale, but equally irritating, wanky meeting jargon - "across the piece"
I believe it basically means "in relation to everything", "the whole thing", something like that. Either way, there are plenty of perfectly adequate words and phrases within our beautiful language that convey the same meaning without making you sound like some sort of nouveau yuppy. Particularly irritating when uttered by my colleague who combines it with this weird deliberate stutter thing that seems to be designed to interupt other people who insist on talking properly.:
"I....I,I,I,I,I,I,I think we need to look at that across the piece."4 -
Put it on the back burner.
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‘100%’ and ‘I’m not gonna lie’ 😡SoundAsa£ said:Put it on the back burner.
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I'm convinced that is revealing of the interviewee's attitude toward the interview or the interviewer. When they start with 'no' it's because they generally don't want to be answering the questions or they're feeling defensive.MrLargo said:"Yeah, no, yeah" - how the f*%k has this nonsense become acceptable?! Fairly sure it came from thick-as-pigshit footballers.
Interviewer: "Tony, a tough game today against a side 2 divisions higher than you. On reflection, quite a lot of positives you can take, despite the 2-0 defeat?"
Tony: "Yeah, no, yeah. I mean, it was really tough out there, but we've acquited ourselves really well against a great side.......etc, etc, etc."
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'Skin in the game'. I've no idea where it comes from and I don't particularly want to know. Why can't people just say, 'I have no interest' or 'I have no involvement' or 'it doesn't matter to me' or something else along those lines? Something that's in English rather than in Gibberish.2
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“I couldn’t give a flying fuck”Stig said:'Skin in the game'. I've no idea where it comes from and I don't particularly want to know. Why can't people just say, 'I have no interest' or 'I have no involvement' or 'it doesn't matter to me' or something else along those lines? Something that's in English rather than in Gibberish.3 -
‘I’m speaking my truth.’
To clarify, I have no issue at all with it being used in the right context, which is people who have overcome horrendous experiences and using their voice/platform to support others and break down barriers.
What I can’t stand is how it’s somehow seeped into everyday life, been taken completely out of context and is used as some sort of untouchable shield to spout complete and utter bollocks.
And if you don’t like the above, I’m speaking my truth and you’re gaslighting me if you disagree.2 -
Probably just me: I detest the phrase 'National Treasure' being used to describe an actor.2
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Terry continually using the phrases “Cleared away” and “Saved away” on Charlton TV commentary. It’s just “Cleared” and “Saved”, Tel. No idea why it irritates me so much.0
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I haven’t listened to CAFCTV for years but does he still say “he’s overcooked that” every time someone over hits a pass or cross etc? Nothing wrong with the phrase but he never used to vary it and say “over hit” or “put too much on that”. It was ‘overcooked’ every single time.0
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End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.
Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.1 -
I have a real problem with quoting adverts.Radostanradical said:End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.
Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.
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“To stupid” is brilliant 😂Radostanradical said:End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.
Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.1 -
Dyslexia - Duffmans secret shameJaShea99 said:
“To stupid” is brilliant 😂Radostanradical said:End of - Its just an idiots way of saying i'm out of my depth and by being aggressive i can get my own way.
Simple(s) - Just an idiots way of saying I'm going to ignore the multiple others opinions, considerations or options because I'm either to stupid to understand them or they aren't convenient to my belief.0 -
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'Dispatched' in relation to Amazon deliveries. Dispatched should mean that it's actually on its way to me. Not that it's been sent to a big warehouse miles away from me, from an even bigger warehouse even more miles away.3
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'And today's referee is Robert Madley'6
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4th Official Trevor KettleDaveMehmet said:'And today's referee is Robert Madley'0 -
Can’t remember if I heard this yet again over the weekend, but “The legend that is Steve Brown”. Greg Stubley, please, please stop it!0
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Instead of saying ‘bet placed successfully’ can I just have a successful bet
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Donald Trump said....................2
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One that I constantly see used on here…… “Give your head a wobble” it truly grinds my gears. I don’t know why but, I fecking hate. People who use it.0
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With you totally on this one…. Another American import.Stig said:'Can I get...'? No, you can't 'get' whatever it is, because you're essentially asking someone else to get it for you. What you want is to have something, not get it.
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One my wife's family use
"Put the wood in the hole"
Saves zero time, more syllables than "shut the fucking door" and doesn't mean I look like I've had a head injury and take 5 seconds to wonder what on this green earth they are on about
"It is what it is". Annoyingly over-used.
Hard agree on anyone who has already cited
The over/misuse of literally
Normalcy. Nope, its normality
Are you ok? This has replaced the ironic and overused U OK hon? And is performative passive aggression that deserves a response of actual physical aggression
Are you mad? I can understand it when some angry black roadman from Stratford or Leytonstone is telling it but like dreadlocks, this is not for white boys from suburbia
#bekind. Always used by vicious, bitter, interfering, nosey, gimlets who are anything other than kind
One I learned recently, because I think Kier Starmer posted something about he was a proud gooner and got battered for it. I had no idea what gooning was in the modern parlance and wished I hadn't looked it up. It does suit Kier Starmer though
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It's your round.
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