Expressions you hate

realdanbreen

'You're a gentleman and a scholar'

smilerf

Trained Ear.
People making out they can hear things better than other people because they have one
All this audiophile thing is a load of ****

Rubberlegs

"Parking" an idea till the next meeting
Let's be havin' ya
Flicking the bean
Hedonistic lifestyle
Bespoke
Things that happen "organically"
Calm your tits

Salvation Tambourine

realdanbreen wrote: »

'You're a gentleman and a scholar'

There's one person I know who's said this a few times and no doubt he's a tosser.

Describing a song as a 'banger', especially when it's invariably some run of the mill pop song

Hector Mildew

"Can I pick your brain?" The literal meaning always comes to mind when anyone says it..

Tammy!

Abba987 wrote: »

Little Angles

Little angles isn't really used as a real expression. I've never heard or seen any parent post or refer to their kids as 'little angles' or even 'little angels.'

They might put up some posts saying something nice about their kids but I've only ever seen little angles, little angels posted here as a joke which is a bit played out now.

FishOnABike

Bassfish wrote: »

Holistic approach
When food items are shortened, sambo, avo, guac! Just say the f*kin word!

Don't ever go to Aus so! ;-)

"Don't blot your copy book"
(Said in a northern accent..)
Take your oil
(also northern accent)

Wrecks my head

Former Former

"Let's take this offline"

CoBo55

Situation, in a northern accent of course.

Wesser

'the mother'
'the wife '

some woman that a man has to.put up with.....

Graces7

Official rejection letters that say" We realise that this is not what you wanted to hear"

Caegan

Hearing anyone use the phrase "On the blop"

embers_fire

British expressions used by Irish people annoy me. I think we've got too much exposure to them based on geography so it's understandable but I've never gotten used to it.

A few examples:

"Mate" - very British (or Australian)
"Sat" instead of "sitting"
"Gaff"
"Tea“ - referring to something you eat
"Chuffed"

Graces7

Caegan wrote: »

Hearing anyone use the phrase "On the blop"

fryup

words of comfort..."oh God needed another angel in heaven"

well couldn't he have waited another while:cool:

Martina1991

Graces7 wrote: »

On the blob/ time of the month/ on the rag/ shark week

Period.

Cyclepath

"let me unpack that for you..."

when used in the context of an explanation. No, just explain it you condescending prick!

AllForIt

Former Former wrote: »

"Let's take this offline"

I've never heard that one. Is that something you say to someone on a dating app?

Sardonicat

embers_fire wrote: »

British expressions used by Irish people annoy me... but I've never gotten used to it.

American expressions don't seem to bother you, though?

fryup

embers_fire wrote: »

British expressions used by Irish people annoy me. I think we've got too much exposure to them based on geography so it's understandable but I've never gotten used to it.

A few examples:

"Mate" - very British (or Australian)
"Sat" instead of "sitting"
"Gaff"
"Tea“ - referring to something you eat
"Chuffed"

don't be bitter

anyway it works both ways...the british use terms like....craic, bejayus, feck, eejit etc

helps relations between the two nations doesn't it?

Caegan

Graces7 wrote: »

Phrase used in place of Period.

nomdeboardie

Not so much a spoken expression, but use of the description "Unleaded" on petrol station signs - FFS, leaded petrol has been banned for 2 decades, and I know at least some of the signs have been refurbished since then...:rolleyes:

TinCanMan

Lookit

Professor Moriarty

At the end of a phone call: Bububybyebububbye

The Nal

Middle management speak like "Robbing Peter to pay Paul", "Going forward", "Blue sky thinking", "lots of moving parts", "verticals", "touch base offline".

And meeting descriptions - "townhall", "brown bag" and "a fireside". A fúcking fireside.

It is what it is I suppose.

ongarboy

AllForIt wrote: »

I've never heard that one. Is that something you say to someone on a dating app?

Another corporate coined phrase.

"Let's take it offline" usually is said on a workplace conference call or meeting with multiple participants where the conversation veers off topic or touches on confidential or sensitive information that may or should not be heard by all participants. It can come across as patronizing as the other person can/may use it as an indirect way of asking you to shut up.

Now that you mention it, it's also a clever way of progressing an online interaction on a dating app to a real one!!

Expressions that irk me:
Coulda, shoulda, woulda
C'mere (I've only heard it in Dublin)
Sorry (used instead of Excuse me or to get someone's attention ...why are you apologizing??)

also
When someone uses their fingers to demonstrate quote/unquote or inverted commas

The Nal

Wesser wrote: »

'the mother'
'the wife '

some woman that a man has to.put up with.....

"The war office".

"The enemy".

MetzgerMeister

- Get the hell out of dodge
- How are ya now
- I'll tell ya one thing
- Happy out
- Well horse
- Well scooby/suble (this one is from years ago and thankfully died a death)
- It's your only man
- That'll do nicely

GooglePlus

Dubs putting the word "Yup" in front of everything these days.

"Yup the lads, 5 in a row yeah"
"Yup the dart"
etc.