what two words in one/sayings irritate you?

Abbafan1972

I hate the words "to go" instead of "take away".

Going forward - someone at work says that all the time.
Chillax
Awesome
Thinking outside of the box
ballpark figure
It/they tick all the right boxes
"To be honest" - before a sentence. It implies that you are a liar.

catch_me_if_you_can

another one I'm guilty of

"let's get this boxed off"

"that's boxed off, then" :eek:

My daughter will reply "coolie" or "coolio" and "kk"

I scream silently when people type an ellipsis as ..............................
(varying number of stops when it should only have 3) or multiple !!!!!!!!!! ?? in fact any punctuation mark used incorrectly

One I do like, that my Dad uses, is "Taradiddle" when he disbelieves something.

Abbafan1972

I have loved this thread and I had to read it all the way through as it's so funny!

Getting back to the subject of combined words, I do hate things like.

Jedward
Brandgelina
Romcom
Staycation

I also hate the term "WAGS" and "Socialite", the latter means for me "Lazy".

My boss says "Top bananas" quite a lot and when you start talking to him about something he isn't aware of, he will say "who, what, where?"

marmiterulesok

What does 'top bananas' mean?

marywooyeah

marmiterulesok wrote: »

What does 'top bananas' mean?

I think it means "really good" - eg, that cake was top bananas.

silverchair

What does "nom nom nom" and "Staycation" mean?

The phrase bloody Nora really irritates me. I think that's how it goes as I can now to block it out whenever its been said.

Its not really the phrases that annoy me, just the people that are saying them. I had the H.A.P.P.Y one the other day while I was flat out busy. Wanted to thump the guy that had just wandered into work.

Abbafan1972

I knew there was something else I wanted to mention.

I hate it when people say "watch your back" instead of "excuse me".

An Asda employee was pushing one of those massive crates past me once and said this instead of excuse me, I had to bite my tongue as I find it incredibly rude! :mad:

LisaB85

My mother says -

'I let you wash up' or 'I'll let you hoover up' etc like she is trying to do people a favor it really winds me up! Just say 'can you do the washing up' I generally do it anyway but grrrrr

EndlessStruggle

I hate it when people say "Really Really" about something.

I have a friend who says it a lot, you look really really good, it's really really nice to see you etc. It just grinds me as you only need it use once really :rotfl:

marmiterulesok

silverchair wrote: »

What does "nom nom nom" and "Staycation" mean?

The phrase bloody Nora really irritates me. I think that's how it goes as I can now to block it out whenever its been said.

Its not really the phrases that annoy me, just the people that are saying them. I had the H.A.P.P.Y one the other day while I was flat out busy. Wanted to thump the guy that had just wandered into work.

'nom nom nom' is a way of indicating that you are going to eat or are looking forward to eating something delicious.

'staycation' means being on holiday (vacation) but staying at home.It might mean,more broadly-speaking,just not going abroad for a holiday.I'm not quite sure.