The worst phrase/saying?

[MissCommando]

I think it's got to be "I love x more than life itself". I always cringe when I hear this, who actually loves life itself? What a load of old tripe.

What gets your vote?

[emmie]

it not you, it's me, when getting dumped..

[tgs3497]

My least favourite phrases are
1) At the end of the day........
2) I'm not being funny but.......
3) At this moment in time.......(where else do we get moments?)

[tgs3497]

My top 3 least favourite sayings are...
1) "At the end of the day......"
2) "I'm not being funny, but......"
3) "In this moment in time....." (Where else do we get moments?)

[excelsior-1]

'at the end of the day' makes me heave

[excelsior-1]

also .. my girls have picked up that awful american habit of saying 'like' after every other word.

[strawb1a]

You know what I mean! Hate it!!!

[chi-chi66]

NOT....at the end of a statement..

"I really like that" NOT

[FredPuli43]

"Step up to the plate", "Don't get me wrong.." and an idiosyncratic choice, "took the stand" in reports from British courts (we don't have a 'witness stand').

Lake Superior University has an annual competition for the word or phrase which is disliked as being most overused in the year. People submit their choice of the one which ought to be banned. This year's winner is 'amazing', which the organizers were surprised to find hadn't won before.
A near-winner was 'man cave', a term for what would call a shed, where a man can escape from the family. As American words and phrases often cross the Atlantic, we may expect that one soon .

[birdie1971]

Misuse of the word 'literally'.

It literally does my head in.

[MarkRae]

^^ "...go ahead and..." Americans appear to be incapable of using any verb without putting this dreadful phrase before it...

[birdie1971]

↑ Have you heard the Americanism, “I could care less!” when describing something they couldn’t care less about?

[kia cat]

Pretty much, at the end of the day, fair play, end of, in the cold light of day.

Thankfully, level playing fields, running things up a flagpole [that aren't flags], moveable goalposts and fire-brigading seem to have slipped into obscurity.

For me the biggest arrgghh is " at this moment in time "

[Mick-Talbot]

What a load of old tripe.



it.s not a load of old tripe is it ....... is it ?

well, unless you are talking about.......a load of old tripe of course .

[Mick-Talbot]

I swear down



I always assume if someone says this, they are telling porkies.

[WELSHYORKIE]

'At the end of the day, going forward....' and that American saying ' Ya know what i'm saying'

[sith123]

in a film :"ill be back"

you know he wont.

[Mentalmum]

"It's not what you think".......er yes, it usually is!!

[themagus]

When reporters and radio broadcasters pronounce the word 'finance' as 'fin-nance' - can't they spell? There is only one 'n' not two!

[Everhelpful]

What about Draw(R)ing where does the middle R come from?

[Backdrifter]

I'm glad 'simples' was mentioned earlier, it just makes the speaker sound really stupid. Also agree with the over-use of 'like' to which I'd add the near-ubiquitous "I was like, yeah.... She was like, no...". I'm loathe to blame Americans for this stuff, which we seem prone to do; someone earlier said Americans seem unable to not use a certain phrase - what, heard all 250 million of them use it, have you? - in fact, people here choose to mimic what they see and hear in US films and TV shows. Thus I now hear many people ordering food saying "Can I get the..." and replying to 'how are you' with "I'm good", and saying "Eewww" instead of the good old traditional "Euurrggghh!"

But anyway, my other dislikes are "Oh come on, it's just a bit of fun", usually to justify some at best stupid or at worst offensive thing; "Just saying", stuck moronically at the end of statements as though protecting the speaker from any kind of come-back; and "I love him/her to bits". Oh and not forgetting, "It's political correctness gone mad!" which it almost invariably isn't (of course prompting the joke, shouldn't that be "Political correctness gone mental health issues"?).

Then there are those come-backs people think are the all-encompassing end to a disagreement: "Get a life", "Get over yourself", "That's just YOUR opinion". Of course it's my opinion, it's me speaking!