Words or phrases that you hate ...

[Hover Fly]

Get-a-life. The response of the intellectually bankrupt.

Check-out. I don't work in a supermarket.

Pushing-the-envelope (on a bike), should only be used by posties.

 

[MontyVeda]

fortunately for me I don't get wound up by phrases used by others... however my best mate is as bad as you lot and it drives me up the wall.

 

[LabRatt]

Well basically, at the end of the day, I cotch at my yard, turn around and axe myself "should I pimp my ride?" I could care less, it's not a big ask; not by a long shot. In my humble opinion, that's gay. Can I haz cheezburger? LOLZ.

 

[Archie_tect]

Mint.

 

[Mac66]

I am as yet unaware of the verb 'done', as in blood doning.

Every time I hear the word burglarized, in American cop shows and suprised they are not murderdized too.

Ahh, the words too and to and their incorrect use.

 

[slowmotion]

Don't even think of mentioning decimate.

 

[Bay Runner]

"Force majeure" = it's ok we are managmnet we can break the rules.

"At this moment in time" = now

"For your information"

Cool

 

[Zoiders]

Don't even think of mentioning decimate.

Surely that's purely a mathematical mistake on their part?

 

[rikki]

The response "absolutely" instead of "yes" or even "yes, I agree with that" if you need to emphasise your agreement.

"My bad" really grates when my children say it.

 

[Globalti]

LOL in internet forum posts.

It's used by inarticulate posters when they don't know how to finish the sentence.

 

[MossCommuter]

By and large... especially when it's pronounced in a faux French way as "by-en-large"

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Don't even think of mentioning decimate.

This is simply an example of a word whose meaning has moved from its roots. Sure the Latin term had a specific meaning in military punishment (every tenth soldier would be killed), but that's not what it has meant in everyday English usage for a long time.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Finally... the bloody title to this thread has been changed (from Words *of* Phrases...) it was bugging the hell out of me!

 

[Paladin - York]

The use of the indefinite article before a word beginning with a vowel eg "There has been "a" accident at ..........". I've heard this for many years on BBC Radio traffic reports.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Dropping of the definite article before the names of birds and animals, e.g. "Sparrow has become rarer". It's just an affectation.