Words and phrases you hate.

[Basher]

What words and phrases really irritate you. You know the ones, the ones that make you angry straight away as soon as you hear someone say it.

A selection of my all time hates include;

"At the end of the day" As far as I'm concerned, I call it evening.

"Touch base" which base are we touching.

"To be fair" huh!!!

"Fairway metal" Another Americanism, we call it a wood.

Any that make you cringe?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Blue sky thinking, push the envelope, "knob", Before I start...

 

[thecraw]

I know a word that Brendy loves!

 

[clubchamp07]

"to be honest with you"

what the hells that all about?

why say it? were you going to tell lies?

 

[Leftie]

"Yes. Well, I mean..."

"Me, myself, personally...."

Mulligan. No, three off the tee...

Giving 110%

Don't get me started

 

[Basher]

"Have you been hurt in an accident?"

"Go compare!"

"Ya know whar ah mean"

"Interact"

 

[Oddsocks]

Ah the 110% , one of my all time hates

I'm an offender of at the end if the day

Another big one is Can I borrow, nope sod off you never pay back

 

[Imurg]

"concious decision" - how many unconcious one have you made?

"Going Forward" - so you've been on a Management course....

"With all due Respect" - ie non whatsoever and you're wrong!

On the back of an Energy Co Van - "To aid the Environment this vehicle is limited to 70mph" - So the law's got nothing to do with it then.......

I've got loads more but I've got Man-flu so the brain isn't working - I'll come back later.....

 

[Region3]

As someone said already, "Touch base"

"Singing from the same hymn sheet"

"For the win"

"To the inch"

"I have to say"

"Chalk it up" - to a pool player who's not even at the table

"Good shot" - when it clearly isn't

"Unlucky" - when it was obviously just crap

"In my humble opinion" - If your opinion was humble you wouldn't give it!

"Go in the hole!"


There must be more, I'll be back

 

[SwingSlow]

Getting pretty fed up with the repetitive use of the word "fair" at the moment.

"in the final analysis"
"At this moment in time"
"To better serve our customers"

 

[madandra]

The stretch ...

Double eagle ....

Americans who need to abrev8 everything ...

 

[brendy]

lol craw, been heard muttering the word myself fella!
I really hate terms like "bite the bullet" and "backs to the walls" and "up against it", it? what is it? blancmange? Garghhhh.

 

[haplesshacker]

Whatever.

And like ……

The incorrect use of where, were, we're and wear. Same goes for the variations of their, there, they're etc.

So!

Just don't go there.

As if.

Yeah, right, no, yeah……

You know what I mean……

Wicked!

I won't go into the reasons for dis-liking any of the above. But let's just say that I don't like them. It's not that I particularly dislike the people that use these phrases. It just makes it harder for me to like them.

 

[CliveW]

"The Midlands" Meaning the Southern area of the UK.
"The North" Meaning the middle of the UK.
"England" Meaning all of the UK.

 

[Losttheplot]

I hate the phrase 'go with the flow'. Just drives me nuts.
Also 'like a fish out of water'...... So you flap around not knowing what to do then???? (its currently on a first direct tv advert)

 

[USER1999]

Any of the golf so called funny stuff, Sally Gunnell etc. Never was funny.

 

[pokerjoke]

People that say "dont get me wrong" you just know there going to slag someone off.

 

[bobmac]

ANY american word or phrase.
eg
check this out
movie is a film
store is a shop
mall is a shopping centre
cheers is a toast, not a farewell
cart is a trolley
the book is a good read
we golf on Saturdays
I could go on

 

[colint]

"When you've got the John Terrys / Steven Gerrards / Wayne Rooneys of the world" What ? Everyone called John Terry ? It's not the John Terrys of the world, it's one specific John Terry, not feckin all the John Terrys of the world !!

Footballers who start answering a question with "Yeh, no..."
Which is it dumbass ? Yes or No, it can't be both.

 

[colint]

and while I'm at it, "we'll sit down at the end of the season...." Is that why you're so $hit3 ? Standing up all season