The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

[Miss 1929]

the worst! In his book I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe ridicules this trend hilariously.

And in Anne Rice''s last Mayfair Witch book, there's a white trash character who does it too...

 

[Slim Portly]

"You guys," meaning any group of human beings, regardless of gender.

Potential employee, referring to my company: "Are you guys hiring?"

Waiter, approaching the table occupied by my lovely date and myself: "Are you guys ready to order?"

 

[Tomasso]

"You guys,"

That would be "Youse guys " in NY/NJ.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

^^^

In The Bronx it is "Deez guyz"

 

[Paisley]

"Give back to the community." A smarmy phrase that should be replaced by simply writing a check or doing a good deed.

On a similar note, I don't like the office shakedown: being asked to money or gifts to coworkers you don't see socially, aren't inviting you to their wedding or weekend baby shower, and make more money than you do. That charming custom seems to have disappeared from my office--perhaps our new single, childless managing partner doesn't like it, either.

 

[Dr Doran]

"You guys," meaning any group of human beings, regardless of gender.

Potential employee, referring to my company: "Are you guys hiring?"

Waiter, approaching the table occupied by my lovely date and myself: "Are you guys ready to order?"

The death penalty should be put into effect against this monstrosity.

Not as bad, but related: people who use the possessive phrase "you guys's."

Example: "When I went over to you guys's house, it looked pretty creepy."

The English word "your" applies to both singular and plural second person possessors: "I love your hair." "I appreciate your collective efforts at making this work." Other languages make distinctions between a singular and plural second person possessors, but English does not, and if one needs desperately to be invented (if this distinction is deemed so TERRIBLY important) we must invent one less clumsy than "you guys's."

 

[Methuselah]

"I was gutted" - what most contestants say when voted off TV 'talent' shows, akthough the easy cure for this is to not watch the telly!

"At the end of the day" - mainly used by people complaining on the local news show.

"Tick all the boxes" - :rage: :rage: :rage:

I hear what you're saying but, with all due respect, it's not exactly rocket science. Basically, at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is you have got to be able to tick all the boxes. It's not the end of the world, but, to be perfectly honest with you, when push comes to shove, you don't want to be literally stuck between a rock and a hard place. Going forward we need to be singing from the same songsheet but you can't see the wood from the trees. Naturally hindsight is 20/20 vision and you have to take the rough with the smooth before proceeding onwards and upwards. The bottom line is you wear your heart on your sleeve and, when all is said and done, this is all part and parcel of the ongoing bigger picture. C'est la vie (if you know what I mean).

Taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3632968/At-the-end-of-the-day-youve-given-110-per-cent.html

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Two VERY annoying expressions: "trad" and "tradly". They infest the Ask Andy About Clothes forum.


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[LordBest]

I find the over-use and mis-use of the word buggery in Australia particularly annoying and on occasion, hilarious. Some examples I've heard during the past week. In public.

"It's hot as buggery."

"She's dumb as buggery."

"We're lost as buggery."

"Where in buggery is my shoe."

"This weather has got me buggered."

"Look, Jim made it!"
"Well, bugger me."

 

[Dr Doran]

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Two VERY annoying expressions: "trad" and "tradly". They infest the Ask Andy About Clothes forum.


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I have noticed it there, on the very few times I have gone there. I am still a bit bemused by the term "trad" in that context. I only knew of the word "trad" meaning a kind of skinhead: a "traditional" skinhead who was not a Nazi skinhead, and who had slightly longer hair (not bald) and wore working-class, but neat and tidy, British fashions from the non-hippy portion of the 1960s. Conservative, but not racist. Listened to dance hall reggae and especially ska and rocksteady, and soul.

However, on "Ask Andy," the term trad seems to mean (as far as I care to investigate, which is not much) a sack-suit-wearing vaguely preppy style. Weirdly (again, as far as I can tell -- my impressions are shallow on this topic) there seems to be among these folk an idea that trad is a kind of culture of these sack-suit-wearing vaguely preppy folk.

If it is a culture, it sounds very boring to me.

 

[Paisley]

I find the over-use and mis-use of the word buggery in Australia particularly annoying and on occasion, hilarious. Some examples I've heard during the past week. In public.

"It's hot as buggery."

"She's dumb as buggery."

"We're lost as buggery."

"Where in buggery is my shoe."

"This weather has got me buggered."

"Look, Jim made it!"
"Well, bugger me."

My sister used to say "all buggered up" to mean "all messed up." [Cringe.]

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Other languages make distinctions between a singular and plural second person possessors, but English does not, and if one needs desperately to be invented (if this distinction is deemed so TERRIBLY important) we must invent one less clumsy than "you guys's."

We dumped ours.....it used to exist.

 

[Dr Doran]

We dumped ours.....it used to exist.

"Thy"?
"Thine"?
Lovely words -- but "you guys's" with the horrid double Z sound at the end (interrupted by a schwa: "yu gaizuhz") is very unpleasant and undeserving of entry into the acceptability canon of our lovely and versatile language.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

"Thy"?
"Thine"?
Lovely words -- but "you guys's" with the horrid double Z sound at the end (interrupted by a schwa: "yu gaizuhz") is very unpleasant and undeserving of entry into the acceptability canon of our lovely and versatile language.

Actually I simplified...

Ye, you yours has always been the plural.......

we had a singular...the thy thou thine......which we dumped...and put the plural in its place for all numbers....

 

[Selvaggio]

The way my daughters say "No offence, but...." and then go on to say something like, "..your hair looks like possums are nesting there and your breath smells like old socks".

 

[Paisley]

I use "thee" when I talk to my dog. "Pumpkin pie is OK for me, but not for thee."

 

[BellyTank]

You're sounding like a single person

I just imagined you saying that to your dog... and I liked it.


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[HadleyH]

This one is not so annoying, it's more used in beauty and make up talk .It sounds weird, very weird to me.

When they say for example " It makes my eyes pop out" _ This eyeshadow makes my eyes pop out.


Eyes pop out? Sure. Whatever. [huh]

 

[Jennifer Lynn]

Anyone mention the term "bra" yet? Apparently it's recently become an offshoot of "bro", but I'm not sure if it's the plural version. I heard a guy use this on a friend at a mall last year, and it was the first time I heard it in public (prior to that, just on tv).

I asked a guy friend about the term, and whether or not it bothered him. He said it probably wouldn't, seeing as the word has another meaning (as in brassiere), and that he wouldn't mind being one of those. Smartypants.

 

[Diamondback]

Actually I simplified...

Ye, you yours has always been the plural.......

we had a singular...the thy thou thine......which we dumped...and put the plural in its place for all numbers....

Some of us from or influenced by the good parts of the country don't have this problem...
Singular: "you"
Plural: "y'all"

Y'all have a real good day now...

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