[Misc] Phrases you hate people saying

[Lyndhurst 14]

"If I had my time again I'd................"

That's never going to happen. You get one shot at it, make it count.

Besides, if you did get that chance to put a few big mistakes right you would only make some new ones, that's what we do - we're human and we screw up

 

[The Clamp]

Softly softly catchy monkey.

I agree with the meaning of the phrase I just simply loathe the words themselves, "catchy". Ugh. It all seems so breathey and a bit noncey.

I get a similar nauseated feeling when someone shortens Spaghetti Bolognese to spag-bol. Come on, we can do better than this.

I also do not like it when people, especially newsreaders describe something as huge or big. As in "a huge car accident" or "a big storm". Those words are completely subjective and offer me no real information as to the size of anything. This is why we have things like the Beaufort scale and numbers.
Use them.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Just a word: disinterested. Anyone use it correctly? Anyone here?

 

[Bakero]

Just a word: disinterested. Anyone use it correctly? Anyone here?

Frankly, I think most people are disinterested in the distinction.

 

[schmunk]

Frankly, I think most people are disinterested in the distinction.

I'm uninterested.

 

[BadFish]

Poop

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Not a phrase, just when people go up an octave when saying the last word which makes every sentance sound like a question.
They do it all the time here and it is annoying.

It’s called a raised inflection. Tolerate it with Aussies but anyone else it’s very annoying.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Softly softly catchy monkey.

I agree with the meaning of the phrase I just simply loathe the words themselves, "catchy". Ugh. It all seems so breathey and a bit noncey.

I get a similar nauseated feeling when someone shortens Spaghetti Bolognese to spag-bol. Come on, we can do better than this.

I also do not like it when people, especially newsreaders describe something as huge or big. As in "a huge car accident" or "a big storm". Those words are completely subjective and offer me no real information as to the size of anything. This is why we have things like the Beaufort scale and numbers.
Use them.

I’ve stopped using this phrase I felt it made me sound like a poacher or colonialist

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Is there anyone you’d like to nominate for reward and recognition? I’m in the Roy Keane camp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqcScCuJIo

 

[Timbo]

Yomp or schlep, both can never darken my doorstop ever again.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Nom nom, out for a cheeky one with my bestie.

 

[el punal]

Its probably been mentioned on this thread already but I can’t go through 58 pages to check - anyway, my hate phrase is “like” mainly used by under 35 year olds in just about every sentence they utter. Examples being :

“I was like gobsmacked.”

“He was like well hard.”

“She was like well up for it.”

For pity’s sake - SHUT UP, stop being lazy and like speak properly!!

 

[Is it PotG?]

A Perfect Storm.

At least 20 times a day in articles, TV shows and chats.

The film was pants, so is the expression.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

"Do you know what I mean?"

The problem with this is that I may THINK I know what you mean, but I can't know for sure - unless you have expressed yourself with crystal clarity in the first place, in which case the question is completely redundant anyway.

Its ******* cousin is "Does that make sense?" which a friend of mine who is a college lecturer says all the time, and which I think is a gross disservice to his students. The only way to know if what he has said truly makes sense to them is to get them to explain it back to him. Many people don't want to appear thick by admitting something doesn't make sense to them that should.

 

[Soul Finger]

'Guys'
'Pep'
'Gotten'
'Go gym' instead of 'go to the gym'
'Conservative Party'

JCLs booing because 'I've paid my money and therefore I'm entitled to boo.' No you're not. Go back to shouting at TVs on a Sunday.

'In this moment' when uttered by someone who has English as a first language.

 

[Brownstuff]

Bless
This donut of a woman at my work says it constantly

 

[twickers]

Put it in the mixer

 

[Publius Ovidius]

“ When you look at our x rating we are fecking brilliant”

 

[Is it PotG?]

Put it in the mixer

That said, we do need to smash it in the onion bag

 

[Jack Straw]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!