Irritating words or phrases

Feisar

"What's for you won't pass you." Like it's some good luck totem. Well thank God I got that cancer, it must have been for me.

thunderdog

“He will be working onsite today”

On what site, a building site? We work in an air conditioned office

“Let’s take this offline”. We’re in an office meeting, not doing some sort of Skype web chat.

Jerichoholic

My new album "drops" next week.

Drops?

**** off

Accidentally

RTE today with 'Ireland's Hidden Heartlands'. Midlands is just fine, let's not pretend there's a big love in.

gormdubhgorm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Babe or babes

Someone I know calls everyone that and it sounds ridiculous.

I think Alex Higgins invented it?

Gadgetman496

Leitrim

Beanntraigheach

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

'We rocked up to the Aviva half scuttered'

Somebody said this to me once and I had to seriously bite my tongue.

'Rocked up'?

What the hell are you talking about you dope.

Stop trying to make 'Rocked up' a thing.

Equally irritating is the use of "rock" referring to hairstyle or clothing.

padd b1975

Cars being referred to as 'examples'.

You drive a Ford Focus not a fooking Bugatti Royale!!

Ipso

Rock star when used in the context of a regular job.
Usually spewed by recruitment types, rock star accountant wanted for exciting role etc

CalamariFritti

wlye6onkg3pmcu wrote: »

When presented with a meal, being told to "enjoy".

There is a little shortfall in the English language. There is no equivalent to bon appetit or guten Appetit or similar. I guess the best they could come up with was enjoy (your meal).

And in that context you're not 'being told'. Its expressing ones hope that you will enjoy it. Same way you would say good night for example.

Whats wrong with it?

Emmersonn

What's wrong with it?

Laphroaig52

I've a headache.

CalamariFritti

Emmersonn wrote: »

What's wrong with it?

No matter what you do or say, there'll be someone who won't like it.

5rtytry56

YOU'RE THE.....

Edgware

State of the art

Salthillprom

I done
I seen
When people can’t differentiate between when they should use ‘that’ and when they should use ‘who’...e.g. The man who went into town. NOT the man THAT went into town

CalamariFritti

'would of', 'should of' I've seen people writing it down like that. You'd think it would dawn on them then, but no...

Jerichoholic

I see people writing "That's he's car" lately instead of "his".

What's that all about?

CalamariFritti

It's the internet. It ruins everyone.

gormdubhgorm

St Patty's day

4ensic15

Let's face it.

worded

benjamin d wrote: »

Here's a thread that hasn't been done in a while...

Are there any turns of phrase people use that really irritate you for whatever reason?

For me, referring to anything as "so-called" usually makes me stop reading or listening to an argument, because 99% of the time what they're referring to is actually the thing they're claiming to be so-called. Around these parts and in internet comment sections it's usually something like "so-called politicians" or "so-called Irish Water" - they ARE politicians and it IS Irish Water, why put the so-called in there? I automatically assume anyone doing this is an idiot.

Another one is "X at its finest", which is so overused these days and almost always wrongly written as "at it's finest". Pedantic I know, but it's annoying.

Also any corporate speak obviously, flying kites and running things up flagpoles and all that ****e.

Beware of "so-called" friends who throw rocks at you

I live by that

Jerichoholic

"I bought this in...I wanna saaaaay...Tesco!"

I've heard this a lot recently and I'm glad my life is halfway over.

Omackeral

Jerichoholic wrote: »

"I bought this in...I wanna saaaaay...Tesco!"

I've heard this a lot recently and I'm glad my life is halfway over.

At least they don't say "Tescos"

alaimacerc

CalamariFritti wrote: »

No matter what you do or say, there'll be someone who won't like it.

Shaw covered this, over a century ago. He said it about the English, of course, but the principle generalises handily.

alaimacerc

CalamariFritti wrote: »

And in that context you're not 'being told'. Its expressing ones hope that you will enjoy it. Same way you would say good night for example.

Strictly speaking, "good night" isn't an imperative, whereas "enjoy" is.

I do agree that the intended and connoted sense is "I hope that you will (have a) [...]", not "(have a) [...] or I'll come at ye", and the complainant should maybe get over themselves.

But if we were over ourselves, we'd not be in this thread giving out yards, would we?

Dakota Dan

Jerichoholic wrote: »

I see people writing "That's he's car" lately instead of "his".

What's that all about?

A wild guess, poor eyesight and predictive text.

Hector Savage

"love someone to bits"

alaimacerc

Dakota Dan wrote: »

A wild guess, poor eyesight and predictive text.

I was thinking it might either be near-homonym transposition (i.e. they're a semi-literate idiot), or a faux-"urban" affectation (i.e. they're a culturally appropriating idiot).

But I don't think I've seen it much, and am guessing at least as wildly.

alaimacerc

Someone mentioned "as a parent". Ed Byrne had a whole bit on that one.

"Gather round, he's speaking as a parent, listen to him carefully now, everyone! [pause] Before, he was only speaking as an opinionated ar$ehole."

PlaneSpeeking

alaimacerc wrote: »

Someone mentioned "as a parent". Ed Byrne had a whole bit on that one.

"Gather round, he's speaking as a parent, listen to him carefully now, everyone! [pause] Before, he was only speaking as an opinionated ar$ehole."

Brilliant! My own sainted mother once told someone off for ranting on about sh1te - something to do with HIV and how it can be caught from a soda stream or such like.

"Well speaking as a mum..." to which the mammy replied "If you'd said speaking as a virologist I"d have listened..." :D:D

Jerichoholic

Omackeral wrote: »

At least they don't say "Tescos"

Of course they do, I was only trying to soften the blow.

_Dara_

‘Game-changer’, depending on its usage.

Saw someone describe some new restaurant as a “Dublin game-changer” on social media recently. It’s a fucking restaurant. It’s not important enough to be described that way.

_Dara_

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I correspond with a colleague in another office by email on a regular basis. He absolutely positively has to use the word ‘heretoforewith’ in every single email he sends regardless of how short or long the email is and will refer back to previous emails in order to be able to use it even when the previous email is embodied in the ones he’s sending.

And it’s not a actually a word. What a muppet. Heretofore is, heretoforewith is not.

Day Lewin

People saying "Albeit" instead of "Although"

They don't actually mean the same: not interchangeable.

"Al-be-it" means, Although it be...

_Dara_

Deleted User wrote: »

The phrase "rock up", meaning to show up. Don't know when this suddenly became popular but I grimace every time I hear it.

Also "doggo"/"pupper" - there is NO NEED for these abominations to exist in any lexicon. :mad: There's NOTHING wrong with dog, puppy or pup. Hell, even "doggy" is somewhat acceptable if you're talking to children, assuming you don't follow it with the word "style".

I LOVE the phrase ‘rock up’. You’d hate me. :pac:

Actually, this thread highlights that people should just speak however they want because you’ll never please everyone. There are so many everyday words here. I saw the word ‘obviously’ mentioned. How does someone get through life if that word or any other commonplace word annoys them?

The Pheasant2

YAAAAAAAAAS Queen

Stun hun

ZV Yoda

“Same as that” I’ve noticed this one relatively recently. Used when speaker has a similar opinion / experience as you. E.g.:

“We went to the new restaurant in town last night. We thought the food was amazing.”

To which the other person replies: “Same as that”

What he means is that he also visited the restaurant and liked the food. But for some reason he’s too lazy to bother responding with a coherent sentence.

What makes it worse is that the phrase seems to be extremely contagious (in our office anyway).

JackieChang

More office speak:

Leverage

Action

Lets leverage this and action that.

fiachraX

Ahead of.
Nobody in RTE ever says 'before' any more. It's always 'ahead of.' I was blissfully unaware of this until someone pointed it out, and now it drives me nuts.
You're welcome.

5rtytry56

In GAA commentators speech

".....and he/she has a brother/sister playing on the minor/senior team!!...."

Mentioned a number of times

DesperateDan

Creative83 wrote: »

Let's touch base with *insert anything* :mad:

Someone says this in the office all the time and after reading these it always makes me giggle.

Kate: "I will have to touch base with you sometime next week"
Dave: "that would be fabulous

blackvalley

dee75 wrote: »

Legit

" leg it " is all right though .:)

Jerichoholic

Awesome Sauce

blackvalley

acai berry wrote: »

Starting a sentence with "Look!" Seems to be a habit mostly in the Southern half of the country.

"Look!" and "Like!" seem to be bedfellows.

And the even more irritating habit of starting every sentence with " So "

blackvalley

This mainly applies to soccer, Gaelic football, and hurling but why do commentators feel the need to refer to a race for possession between two players as a “foot race “. Rugby commentators occasionally use the same expression but as we know rugby players seldom actually run , they simply " pump the legs "
Do they feel the need to describe the contest in this manner just in case we assume they are engaged in a bicycle race, flying race, swimming race, cross country skiing race etc.

trashcan

_Dara_ wrote: »

I LOVE the phrase ‘rock up’. You’d hate me. :pac:

I agree with Homer. I have never, ever "rocked up" to anywhere or anything, and I never will.

5rtytry56

After many student conferences held in the likes of the rds, there are articles peppered with " there were lots of doughnuts / coffee / other junk food enjoyed"

badabing106

"No brainer"

_Dara_

trashcan wrote: »

I agree with Homer. I have never, ever "rocked up" to anywhere or anything, and I never will.

It’s tongue-in-cheek. I picture people swaggering up to the club.

There’s lot of phrases in this thread that I like and find colourful. Language would be so dull without them.