Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

Driving to Cardiff yesterday - tiny T-shirt in rear window of passing car emblazoned with "Small dude on board". This and its female equivalent "Little princess on board" fill me with the urge to smash into the back of the car.

That one reminds of of the car sticker that I've seen attached to vehicles of the cheapo runaround variety, namely "my other car is a Porsche" but that I once saw attached to a Porsche Cayman and which must have been custom made as it read "my other car is a 911 Turbo S Cabriolet" (and it didn't even belong to Lord Prescott as far as I know)...

I also note the tautologous aspect of the "thinking" ones mentioned upthread in that if one is thinking INside the box one would be unable to see any blue sky...

[Sir Velo]

One wonders whether there is a correlation between "blue sky thinking" and being an airhead?

[teamsaint]

new one on me.." The view from 40000 feet.
Which seems to mean , " I will make big stupid decisions, and you sort the mess out on the ground."

[Flosshilde]

Driving to Cardiff yesterday - tiny T-shirt in rear window of passing car emblazoned with "Small dude on board". This and its female equivalent "Little princess on board" fill me with the urge to smash into the back of the car.

Especially irritating (as is the 'baby on board' sign) when there patently isn't a child in the car. It always seems vaguely boastful & superior. & wasn't the original idea behind them that they would alert the emergency services to the presence of a baby in a mangled crashed car? In which case, if there isn't a baby on board it will waste the ambulance/fire brogade/police time.

[Serial_Apologist]

Always clear the decks in case they come out of left field.

That isn't a patch on the other one...

[teamsaint]

Quite a few ideas to run up the flag pole here!

What it is is....

And the one the boss uses to justify EVERYTHING

"we're all under pressure!"

3VS

Which translated means " I have a VERY well paid job that you lot need to save!"

[LeMartinPecheur]

Sadly, as heard too often on Radio 3:

"Award winning"

"Internationally acclaimed"

And increasingly, "Former BBC Young Artist".

Equals "Getting Rather Old Artist"?

[teamsaint]

the pronunciation, which seems prevalent in Hampshire of Salad as "salid".

[scottycelt]

'point the finger'
'screwed up'
'a regular guy'
Mr Average
'a pillar of society'
'a loser'
'the reality is ... ' ( when used for one's personal opinion)

[ahinton]

And increasingly, "Former BBC Young Artist".

Equals "Getting Rather Old Artist"?

I'm glad that you included the question mark, for the true - if also perhaps somewhat premature - meaning is not this at all but "Young Artist of the Former BBC", a fact that will presumably be appreciated by those who have commented elsewhere about the rôle and behaviour of that august (but possible on the back burner by January) organisation vis-à-vis several items of current affairs as perhaps best illustrated by the various recent Newsnight débâcles of which some of which have served unwittingly to illustrate that death row and Savile row might appear to be identical streets...

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm glad that you included the question mark, for the true - if also perhaps somewhat premature - meaning is not this at all but "Young Artist of the Former BBC", a fact that will presumably be appreciated by those who have commented elsewhere about the rôle and behaviour of that august (but possible on the back burner by January) organisation vis-à-vis several items of current affairs as perhaps best illustrated by the various recent Newsnight débâcles of which some of which have served unwittingly to illustrate that death row and Savile row might appear to be identical streets...

Or well-suited

[Jonathan]

(when said by a next door neighbour)
"we're having a party tonight"

[ahinton]

Or well-suited

That creased me up! Will more such bespoke quips cummerbundantly or are you done?(!)...

[Nick Armstrong]

That creased me up! Will more such bespoke quips cummerbundantly or are you done?(!)...

Awfully good, ah!

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm glad that you included the question mark, for the true - if also perhaps somewhat premature - meaning is not this at all but "Young Artist of the Former BBC", a fact that will presumably be appreciated by those who have commented elsewhere about the rôle and behaviour of that august (but possible on the back burner by January) organisation vis-à-vis several items of current affairs as perhaps best illustrated by the various recent Newsnight débâcles of which some of which have served unwittingly to illustrate that death row and Savile row might appear to be identical streets...

On reflection, it would have been better if I'd quipped something like "Getting quite mature artist". ah: glad you realised I wasn't being deliberately stupid & offensive!