Horrible Phraases

[bednobs]

There are 3 phrases on here, which I seem to see with alarming regularity all of which I hate hate hate.
1) you couldn't make it up
2)end of.
3)each to their own
1 because it's used to disparage something
2 because it means the person who posted it thinks what they think is so omportant that there need be no further debate
3 because it's wrong - the saying is to each his own (well that's what I was taught anyway!)

Do you have things people say annoy you?

[douglas9401]

I always say/I have always said

[bednobs]

ps I fully expect someone to find some instances where I have said the above :)

[Zacs-Master]

Alarming regularity. Really gets my goat.

[ummmm]

This is just AB

[Sunk]

The Daily Telegraph uses these phrases for its annual book of unpublished letters...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Daily+telegraph+unpublished+letters&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

[jno]

re 3, "their" is often used for "his or her" these days, which makes sense and forestalls unhelpful comments about fluid sexuality.

[barry1010]

‘End of’ makes me see red.

[agchristie]

I reckon quite a few AB'ers have had a few dental problems due to eating too much bleedin popcorn!!!

[Chinajan]

'Fluid sexuality' :0)

But seriously:

Lol: this went out with the tide and you really aren't anyway, are you?
Similarly, PMSL and ROFLMAO. Internet dinosaur stuff.

Tea all over my keyboard: No there isn't.

Eek: No one says that except cartoon characters upon seeing a mouse. And it's usually trotted out on here in response to something totally un-eekworthy.

What the funicular?: Sounds like something the office boss in a 1970s BBC sitcom would say.

[douglas9401]

I'd of thought...

[Atheist]

Shroud-waving. Used to insult people who express concern about hospital bed shortages or similar.
Throwing money at the problem. Used to argue against spending money on problems that you don't give a toss about. Never used to argue against paying big money to already rich people , who need to be richer to encourage them to work hard - poor people need to have their money cut to encourage them to work hard.

[agchristie]

Irony klaxon!!

[Atheist]

Do-gooders. Used to insult people who try to do good; implies that do-badders are to be applauded.

[Mamyalynne]

Your first example leaves me cold, your second used to infuriate me but now makes me giggle - 'each to their own' was something my Mother would say with an air of "You really have no taste have you?"

I'm sure I use many phrases that annoy people.

[gness]

Not really a saying but just beginning a comment to another aber with an elongated ...Errrr.....

A rarely around now aber used to do this often in a reply. Now it means that either the person saying...Errrr...or the person she was answering was simple...she did it to me once and I know I'm not simple..... :-)

[Atheist]

TROP, TROB, EUSSR, Used by lazy people who don't think, but simply prefer to use in-crowd dog-whistle jargon.
Why not DSA? (Disunited States of America), or TTT (Taunting Tattle Twit).

[woofgang]

My favourite phrase instead of each to their own

"For those who like that sort of thing; that is the sort of thing they like"

[diddlydo]

The use of "of" rather than "have" e.g. "should of resigned", "one might of thought" etc. Don't get me started on the "greengrocer's apostrophe" as in "its" v "it's" even though it makes no difference in speech.

[douglas9401]

Should of checked at 22:42, diddlydo. :-)

[Atheist]

Diddly; I can forgive people whose spelling or grammar is not perfect, but I hate insulting or patronising turns of speech.