"Meet up", "park up" ... why the "up"?

[Sweeney Todd]

I am/was stood/sat has driven me to the point of emigrating.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

It's very common - not just the examples the OP gives (though I admit 'park up' might be a bit American), so I don't really see why it should be annoying.

Link up, join up, top up, tune up, lift up, take up............add your own ad inf.
Wouldn't it be a turn up if this whole thread was a wind up?

I saw this thread just after exhorting Moshe Jnr for the nth time to eat up his vegetables... and I think that later in the evening I might have urged him to drink up his milk.

Must stop this dangerous nonsense before it gets out of hand..!!

 

[MattBackHome]

People are always saying "let's meet up". Why the "up"? "Let's meet" is just fine.

And then there's "I'll be with you shortly; I'm just going to park up". Park up where? What's wrong with "I'm going to park"?

Both irritate me ... but then again, as I get older, a lot of things irritate me!!

I thought NSC would like me to share this with you.

Anyone else have other irritating figures of speech which they'd like to share?

This isn't gospel, but I read somewhere once that 'meet up' originally came from a British 19th century taste for describing places as 'up at [placename]'. So saying 'let's meet / up at the market' slowly turned into 'let's meet up / at the market'.

It sort of makes sense, but it may be total bollocks.

 

[Pevenseagull]

'tap in your PIN number'

Oh, someone on Radio 6 introduced a song as being by 'The' Pixies the other day.

 

[Peteinblack]

As I've posted previously, I detest the way that teenage girls and young women start almost every sentence with 'Ohmigod', and then insert at least 5 'likes' into ensuing sentence - the sentence then ending in that other young female annoyance, 'vocal fry'.

Also, corporate management-speak. I was invited to a 'sandpit event' this week - apparently, the latest buzz-phrase for a workshop or training session

 

[Peteinblack]

Oh, just remembered, another word much loved (and therefore over-used) by managers and politicians: 'robust'.

 

[grubbyhands]

As I've posted previously, I detest the way that teenage girls and young women start almost every sentence with 'Ohmigod', and then insert at least 5 'likes' into ensuing sentence - the sentence then ending in that other young female annoyance, 'vocal fry'.

Also, corporate management-speak. I was invited to a 'sandpit event' this week - apparently, the latest buzz-phrase for a workshop or training session

We should add lol to that list. That really winds me (up)