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Expressions you hate

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    #152
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    "Aww... bless"


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    #153
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    At election time. The battle for the last seat will be a real dog fight. Apologies Ruth!


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    #154
    Springfields
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Springfields


    'Bants' as in banter ..get a life

    "Mindfulness" - everything has.to be.done with it now...apparently.

    "Telpis" - an expression of sympathy down Limeirck / cork direction



    Sigh


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    #155
    Up Donegal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Up Donegal


    '...At a crazy rate of knots...'

    Mea Culpa - I sometimes slip up and use it myself.:o


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    #156
    Springfields
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Springfields


    BPKS wrote: »
    "It was a rollercoaster ride"

    Said on every reality TV show with Coldplay/Kodaline/Ed Sheeran playing in the background as person walks away in slow-mo.

    Ha ! And "it literally means everything to me" said every reality TV star / contestant ever !!


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    #157
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    This isn't the last you've seen of me
    This is just the beginning

    Old chestnuts of never to be seen again reality contestants


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    #158
    Up Donegal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Up Donegal


    'Do the Math!'


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    #159
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Step up to the plate.


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    #160
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users Posts: 6,877 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Touch base


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    #161
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Any American phrase shoehorned into an argument about something uniquely Irish. For instance that traveller thread where 'racists' were being "called out on their racist behaviour".


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    #162
    bottlebrush
    Registered Users Posts: 8,192 ✭✭✭bottlebrush


    I s'ppose lookit at the end of the day


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    #163
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,671 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    Any American phrase shoehorned into an argument about something uniquely Irish. For instance that traveller thread where 'racists' were being "called out on their racist behaviour".


    That expression actually - “called out” or “call out culture”.

    Nauseating :rolleyes:


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    #164
    Bassfish
    Registered Users Posts: 903 ✭✭✭Bassfish


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


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    #165
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    She fell pregnant... :(


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    #166
    fxotoole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Make America Great Again


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    #167
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The acronym AKA stands for Also Known As meaning a pseudonym. Recently I've seen it used to mean 'for example'. It sounds absolutely ridiculous.


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    #168
    Elemonator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    Touch base
    Math
    Could care less, surely it’s I couldn’t care less?
    Reach out
    As mean as ditch water, what’s mean about ditch water?


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    #169
    Treble double
    Registered Users Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Treble double


    "ring fenced" "job of work" that bull**** political speak annoys me "political suicide" "political football" .
    People that use this have a limited vocabulary range and think these phrases make them sound intelligent, I'm looking at you Ivan Yates.


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    #170
    mosesgun
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭mosesgun


    Using the word Super before words such as, tired, busy, important. Very isn't sufficient any more! Absolutely hate this for no apparent reason. Super annoying! Grrr...


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    #171
    Prince Andrew
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 ✭Prince Andrew


    Eighth in Line.

    How Abhorrent.


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    #172
    fxotoole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    sdraobs wrote: »
    breakfast is the most important meal of the day - its not, kelloggs invented this expression to sell cornflakes
    take a rest day from the gym - do you think the guys pulling stones for the egyptian pyramids were given a rest day.
    fizzy drinks make you fat - i thought it should be fizzy drinks. miwadi/kia ora are fine so, and ballygowan is bad??!!

    Pyramids were built by the Aliens. Just sayin’


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    #173
    wiggle16
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    Any American phrase shoehorned into an argument about something uniquely Irish. For instance that traveller thread where 'racists' were being "called out on their racist behaviour".

    Jesus Christ it's actually pathological with some people in here.


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    #174
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    "Set my teeth on edge"
    It really boils my piss
    “Boils my piss”
    It really sets my teeth on edge.


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    #175
    angeleyes
    Registered Users Posts: 604 ✭✭✭angeleyes


    Fiscal space


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    #176
    Treble double
    Registered Users Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Treble double


    In Gaa punditery the top players on teams are always described as "real leaders" . Now every mickey mouse club manager is talking about the leaders in his team when they win or the lack of leaders when they lose. Lads on television trying to find different ways of saying good players have a lot to answer for.


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    #177
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,073 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    “ you guys “

    I hate that expression


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    #178
    red petal
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭red petal


    Wanderlust!!!

    Especially if it's describing an annual holiday as opposed to a free spirit on a one way ticket around the world, although I really dislike it any context.


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    #179
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,493 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    In golf.

    Davis Love the third.
    Harold Varner the third.

    Bull**** as the other two Loves and Varners aren’t playing. Pretentious rubbish.
    Just call them Davis Love and Harold Varner.


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    #180
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    inthehat wrote: »
    She fell pregnant... :(

    Or worse again, "She got herself pregnant", frequently used by my mother. The amount of women she knows who've had an Immaculate conception is astounding.


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    #181
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    "you know what I mean" at the end of virtually every sentence.
    "any way, shape or form"
    "obviously"



    +100000! some people walking around supermarkets or on the bus/ train on the phone and every single word seems to be 'you know whada mean' ' you know whada mean' 'you know whada mean' :mad::mad::mad::mad:


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