Phrases or words in English that annoy you

Aineoil

I'm sure this must have been done before, but there are phrases in English that annoy me for no particular reason. I l lead a sad life!!!

Phrases like......

From the get go

A win win situation. (You either win or you don't)

When push comes to shove

and the annoying Irish one

I hear you
(basically a person is processing what you say, but they don't agree with you):D

Frosty McSnowballs

Lets stick a pin in it.

No, how's about fcuk off, you and your pin!

bonzodog2

Aren't these mostly American-English management-babble? Going forward, like.

darkpagandeath

Give it 110% (Impossible)

Think outside the box (feck off you manager get a real job and stop asking ppl to do it for you)

Irish one

No such a thing .. (what does that even mean it's just bad English)

Frosty McSnowballs

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Aren't these mostly American-English management-babble? Going forward, like.

Well, they are phrases and they are in English.

How's about you take the rest of the day to reflect.

Driveby Dogboy

not another one of these threads....:mad:

for all intensive purposes, play it by year, tow the line, etc etc







oh, enormity used incorrectly always annoys me, unless its in a situation where its proper meaning has unintended, amusing connotations, that makes me smile

Duckworth_Luas

Aineoil wrote: »

You either win or you don't

The Irish soccer team was quite successful in World Cup 1990 without winning once. Olé, olé olé olé !

hfallada

Something that seriously pisses me off is when you are on google chrome and its autocorrect says your spelling is wrong. You click on the word and your spelling is right, but not in us English. It seriously pisses me off

bop1977

Super. Fcuking hate this word.
Irregardless.

happyoutscan

'Love it'


F****** stupid pillock phrase.

Duckworth_Luas

hfallada wrote: »

Something that seriously pisses me off is when you are on google chrome and its autocorrect says your spelling is wrong. You click on the word and your spelling is right, but not in us English. It seriously pisses me off

You zpelt zeriouzly, zpelling and pizzez incorrectly!

Driveby Dogboy

bop1977 wrote: »

Irregardless.

thank you! thats the other one i was trying to think of, ah but shur, they'll all pop up, sooner or later, they always do

Aineoil

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Lets stick a pin in it.

No, how's about fcuk off, you and your pin!

d

I have never heard of that before. What does it mean?

Frosty McSnowballs

Aineoil wrote: »

d

I have never heard of that before. What does it mean?

Basically means.

Yeah great idea....lets keep it there for a while then come back to it. Which in turn means - ram that idea up yer hoop.

Chucken

Driveby Dogboy wrote: »

not another one of these threads....:mad:

for all intensive purposes, play it by year, tow the line, etc etc







oh, enormity used incorrectly always annoys me, unless its in a situation where its proper meaning has unintended, amusing connotations, that makes me smile

To all intents and purposes







Sorry

Aineoil

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

The Irish soccer team was quite successful in World Cup 1990 without winning once. Olé, olé olé olé !

Laughing...Was this a win win situation?

You never hear about a lose lose situation


I'm in a confused confused situation:D

Aineoil

happyoutscan wrote: »

'Love it'


F****** stupid pillock phrase.

McDonald's....I'm loving it:D

Aineoil

Driveby Dogboy wrote: »

not another one of these threads....:mad:

enormity

I am not mad yet, but I am aspiring to that state. I did realise the enormity of the question I posted. When I posted a question of that enormity I did know the posts that followed would be of an enormity.

Love this thread, well I did start it:D

I love enormity, but let's keep things in perspective, while I love enormity, we shouldn't be getting too big for our boots!!!!

Billy86

An American one but

"Write me" / "I'll write you"

Write TO you. It's f***ing write TO you!

Aidric

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Give it 110% (Impossible)

Honestly, the worst of all. Feel like knifing the prick that utters that.

Aidric

'At the end of the day' is another one.

Duckworth_Luas

My bad

Aineoil

Billy86 wrote: »

An American one but

"Write me" / "I'll write you"

Write TO you. It's f***ing write TO you!

In my post I meant all of us that speak English, or a version of it


Write me...... sounds so wrong, but what do I know, apart from grammar

Makes learning English very difficult

stoutykid

'It is what it is'....

Chucken

Aidric wrote: »

'At the end of the day' is another one.

Ride me sideways is another one.





Sorry, I'm leaving now

Karl Stein

He knows what side of the bread is buttered so the shoe will be on the other slice when he's laughing on the other half of his foot.

Busted Flat.

Going forward, concocted by the criminals in banking and politics.

Basically, joe. Jaysus is that a prerequisite to get on his show.

We are where we are, more political nonsense.

toddunctious

People that put "yeah" at the end of their sentences
Eg
Give us an ice-cream, yeah
With a flake, yeah

Busted Flat.

Howya bud aright.

dxhound2005

Aineoil wrote: »

Laughing...Was this a win win situation?

You never hear about a lose lose situation


I'm in a confused confused situation:D

Think of a lose lose situation as being a no win situation. I hope that helps to clear up your confusion.

Aidric

'I was just saying to your researcher there'

whirlpool

"Eats" being used instead of the word "food," i.e. as a noun. e.g. "Wanna get some eats?"

Yes, I've genuinely heard it used like that - devastatingly by multiple people.

I know we say "drinks," but still. No. Just... no.

Busted Flat.

Some soccer clowns, "if we get possession of the ball we could score". That one takes the biscuit.

Brussels Sprout

"my other half" smacks of codependency

Gremlinertia

"Now in a minute"

I have uttered this line once or twice myself..

BillyMitchel

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

My bad

Easily the most annoying expression in the history of expressions. Stupid mother fockers.

Also hate people using economic climate. Fock off you slagggggg

And a minor one is people saying iPhone instead off phone.

Billy: my phone just died.

Idiot: no probs billy, here, use my iPhone

Billy: stick it up your ihole.

e.r

Radio station guessing games.

Presenter: that's a good guess but not the right answer!

How the **** can it be a good guess unless it's the right answer..

maximoose

"It does be" eg this morning someone said "It does be very cold in the mornings"

Wtf is wrong with saying "It's cold..." instead of this stupid wording

bonzodog2

Gotten
An hotel
The way Americans say numbers, like "two hundred twelve" without an 'and'

Pumpkinseeds

It really bugs me when people finish most of their sentences with 'ya/you know?. As in 'I was in the shop the other day, ya know and I really like their bread, ya know? I want to scream at them and shake them in to stopping.

Green Giant

"I was, like, 'Let's go cinema', and he was, like, 'There's nothing good on', so I was, like, 'What will we do so?', and he was, like, 'I dunno', so I was, like 'I'm boooored'. Hashtag totes get me outta here"

Yes, I have heard conversations to this effect

Hande hoche!

Banter/bants. Not a fan.

gugleguy

It's SorrttteD.

Tasden

On the bus yesterday some guy was on the phone talking about his girlfriend being annoyed at him for flirting with another girl, apparently she posted a status saying "two can play at that game" and when he confronted her for this she said its just a phrase people say, he spent five minutes debating with his friend if this is actually a phrase or if it was just a sentence directed at him that she pretended was a phrase cause she was caught rapid :pac:

whirlpool

"Lad."

Irish males, under 30, in a quite recent phenomenon, adding "lad" to the end of their sentences when addressing other males.

"What are you at, lad?"

"No idea, lad."

Shut the f up, lad, ye stupid pr*ck.

osarusan

'free staters'. Speaker is usually a clown.

diomed

I hear what you're saying.

Translation: fook off

Spook_ie

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Give it 110% (Impossible)

Why's that, if you run a car at it's specified max rpm there's always a bit extra into the red line

OldGoat

"Seen" is the past participle of see.
"Saw" is past tense of see.
So you can have "I've seen it happen" or you can have "I saw it happen" but please dear reader, please smack people around the legs for using "I seen it happen".

MonstaMash

"you know what I mean?" at the end of every utterance...

If I didn't know what you meant, I would have fookin said so, you know what I mean?!

Anyone who uses the word 'sheeple' is, by definition, a twat and should have their tongue cut out because they don't deserve the privilege of being allowed to talk. :mad: