Phrases that annoy you the most

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Today English as it were spoke, so to say, no longer exists. We have throwaway clichés, language I really don't understand, but if there is one expression I always react to it happened again this weekend. People who come to see me once a year, waving goodbye and shouting "see you later". But I won't see them for a year, and strangely they always want to come at Le Mans weekend; so just what is "later"? For me it used to say "be back this evening" as I went off to the pub or the cinema, not next bloody year. It really gets my goat, and I don't hesitate to say so.

So what expressions really get to you? I'll be interested to see.

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Good reply

I had to look it up myself:-

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-your-goat.h...

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oobster said:

Wax Lyrical.

That is correct old English so I disagree here. "To wax and to wane".

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"I should/could of" is another pet hate, but you know someone, especially a politician, is going to lie when he starts out with "the truth of the matter is". Grr.

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PositronicRay said:

lowdrag said:

Today English as it were spoke, so to say, no longer exists. We have throwaway clichés, language I really don't understand, but if there is one expression I always react to it happened again this weekend. People who come to see me once a year, waving goodbye and shouting "see you later". But I won't see them for a year, and strangely they always want to come at Le Mans weekend; so just what is "later"? For me it used to say "be back this evening" as I went off to the pub or the cinema, not next bloody year. It really gets my goat, and I don't hesitate to say so.

So what expressions really get to you? I'll be interested to see.

I'm guilty, I'll try and mend my ways!

Thank you. If this post has one convert, that is a start. I have taken the decision to tell the offending person that if he waves goodbye and says the same next year he will never come back. I never hear from him in between, his father has been a friend for 30 years and we correspond regularly, but I can't take the son's attitude any more. Life may belong to the young, but it seems to be at the cost of us the elderly.

Edited by lowdrag on Saturday 24th June 19:26

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Some very fine examples here. Keep them coming. In the mean time, "have a nice day"

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Completely off topic, but the delete options always remind me of when I was looking at buying a 911. To have the badges deleted from the rear of the car was £50. I also tried out an XJS and when I parked it up the handbrake came off in my hand. I bought a Mercedes.

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davhill said:

Therefore, calling in somewhere when en route to somewhere else was, 'we'll swing by'.
Not being a baboon or any other brand of simian, I never swung by anywhere.
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In the declension of verbs, should that be "I have never swung" or should it be I never swang"?

Of course to be "swinging, a swinger or swing both ways" is another matter entirely.

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And there was I thinking it was a golf company

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Keep going people! I'm just off to have a prostrate examination.....

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Meridius said:

Stage 1 tuned
Stage 2 tuned
Stage 3 tuned

doesnt fking mean anything, may aswell be talking about Need For Speed.

Might be talking about their Steinway perhaps?

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Biker's Nemesis said:

"Can I get a coffee please" instead of can I please have a coffee".

Well, it should really be "may I have a coffee please?" If the ask "can I have a coffee" I can reply "yes you can", but that is still subjective. If I reply "yes" to may I have a coffee please" it is affirmative. Oh, the joys of English!

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Rawwr said:

"There must be more to this story."

Anyone who types this needs to get in the f*cking sea.

I've just finished a Linwood Barclay novel only to find that to get to the end of the story I have to buy the next novel. I'll buy no more of his books.

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"The fact of the matter" , that favourite of politicians, is a guarantee that a lie is forthcoming.

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Just a grammar mistake, but it happened once again yesterday on the 'phone (note the apostrophe!)

Me: May I speak to Phil please?

Reply: "Can you give me your name please?"

Me: "Yes, most certainly".

And on it went until he just passed the phone over.

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NickM450 said:

Almost forgot, "wanting" instead of want. Often seen on selling sites, I'm wanting a new car, is anybody wanting a new car etc.

That was in common use in Leicester in the 1980s. it came in because of the influx of the Asians and their english being somewhat different. It was common to hear someone exclaim, when seeing something he liked say "wanting wanting"!

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Stuart70 said:

According to entymology online, "kid" referring to a child goes back as far as 1590. Not sure how relevant your mother and Prince Philip are to the use of the English language?

Which reminds me. I had minced kid en croute last week.

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HustleRussell said:

You sick bd!

(Baby goat?)

Hopefully!

Well, the menu didn't specify really, but it was a 1* Michelin in Lanzagrotty called the Lilium. I'd highly recommend it but book first. Not dear too, but the thought of being a cannibal did add a "je ne sais quoi" to the experience

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phazed said:

Surely, "and everything" has been said before?

What does that mean?

e.g.: I went shopping today and bought new shoes and everything. More common then you think!

Shouldn't that end with a K and not a G?

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I probably am one of the few who still uses a tea pot, and for as long as I can remember I get annoyed by people saying "milk first " or milk last". For goodness sake, it all ends up mixed in the same cup/mug or whatever.

The reason milk was always put in first is that in the day, several centuries back, tea was always served in porcelain cups and the thermic shock of the hot tea hitting the porcelain could shatter it, hence milk first. I don't use porcelain these days and I would hazard nor do you but yuou now know what to say if people say "milk first or some such.