Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Nick Armstrong]

This will help them......

I knew someone would drag him into it!

Didn't think it'd be you, though!

[Beef Oven!]

I knew someone would drag him into it!

Didn't think it'd be you, though!

I even listened to it all the way through!!!!

To be fair, I am on my third double Highland Black

[Nick Armstrong]

To be fair, I am on my third double Highland Black

[ahinton]

I even listened to it all the way through!!!!

To be fair, I am on my third double Highland Black

And I don't doubt that you needed it after such an experience!...

[Nick Armstrong]

And I don't doubt that you needed it after such an experience!...

Wrong - I can categorically certify that one does NOT need Cliff Richard after three double Highland Blacks!





I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal.... &c. &c....

[ahinton]

Wrong - I can categorically certify that one does NOT need Cliff Richard after three double Highland Blacks!





I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal.... &c. &c....

No, Cali, you've got it wrong (you know, like Mahler did with the order of the middle bottles in his Sixth Symphony); I opined that he'd need the 3 × Highland Blacks after that Cliffhanging experience, not the other way around! I might have added that he could have enjoyed them other than as an antidote thereto but thought that this was self-explanatory...

[Nick Armstrong]

No, Cali, you've got it wrong (you know, like Mahler did with the order of the middle bottles in his Sixth Symphony); I opined that he'd need the 3 × Highland Blacks after that Cliffhanging experience, not the other way around! I might have added that he could have enjoyed them other than as an antidote thereto but thought that this was self-explanatory...

Wrong again - I got it right - but then decided to pull your chain, ah, given the uncharacteristic ambiguity of your quip ...

[ahinton]

Wrong again - I got it right - but then decided to pull your chain

Was that because of a change of order of movements arising from said ambiguity?...

[mangerton]

When I saw her at the weekend, miss m was kind enough to bring this site to my attention.

My teeth have been on edge all week; there's enough material there for a year's study.

[P. G. Tipps]

When I saw her at the weekend, miss m was kind enough to bring this site to my attention.

My teeth have been on edge all week; there's enough material there for a year's study.

There certainly is, mangerton, though there is at least one notable omission from Ms Kellaway's extensive list: ... 'cascade down'.

When I was in work so much 'cascaded down' from the top that those at the bottom almost drowned.

[Nick Armstrong]

There certainly is, mangerton, though there is at least one notable omission from Ms Kellaway's extensive list: ... 'cascade down'.

When I was in work so much 'cascaded down' from the top that those at the bottom almost drowned.

It's when you start being cascaded up that you want to worry. Makes your eyes water, I imagine...

PS: cracking site Mr & Ms mangerton - esp for one shortly to leave the business/corporate nonsense behind!

[french frank]

When I saw her at the weekend, miss m was kind enough to bring this site to my attention.

My teeth have been on edge all week; there's enough material there for a year's study.

Why the perfectly UNexceptionable 'curate'? Actually, LK's commentary suggests it's bandied about in circles where people think a lot of themselves.

[gurnemanz]

There certainly is, mangerton, though there is at least one notable omission from Ms Kellaway's extensive list: ... 'cascade down'.

When I was in work so much 'cascaded down' from the top that those at the bottom almost drowned.

Horrible memories associated with that word. If instructed to "cascade", it meant that you not only had to attend some probably dull or fatuous meeting but that you actually had to pay attention and try to distil some sense from the drivel being spouted.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's when you start being cascaded up that you want to worry: makes your eyes water, I imagine...

Just a suggested alteration in the punctuation, sir.

(As the Nurse said to me.)

PS: cracking site Mr & Ms mangerton - esp for one shortly to leave the business/corporate nonsense behind!

- I shall pass this on to the ex-Head of Drama at one of my last schools - we used to get told off for inventing vocabulary when visiting speakers came on INSET days full of the stuff. It was such a joy to see the ice of mild panic freeze the edges of their fixed grins as she suggested to them that we might "wardrobe" an idea.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Horrible memories associated with that word. If instructed to "cascade", it meant that you not only had to attend some probably dull or fatuous meeting but that you actually had to pay attention and try to distil some sense from the drivel being spouted.

Yes - this was a worry; until you realized that they weren't really listening/interested, so you could make up your own "dull or fatuous drivel" and no one would notice. Entire rainforests of paperwork must be lurking in the storerooms of schools across the land containing unread reports of conferences attended that nobody was ever interested in in the first place.