Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[cloughie]

Has anyone mentioned "with respect", meaning the exact opposite, when rersponding to an argument?

Or "I hear what you're saying" which translates as "But I'm not really listening and it's irrelevant"

[Richard Tarleton]

Or "I hear what you're saying" which translates as "But I'm not really listening and it's irrelevant"

Yes the art of good management - say something and mean the opposite!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Has anyone mentioned "with respect", meaning the exact opposite, when rersponding to an argument?

It's rather like - "I don't mean to be awful. but..."

[Serial_Apologist]

It's rather like - "I don't mean to be awful. but..."

Or, "Please don't take this personally, but..."

[3rd Viennese School]

Or " Don't get me wrong! Quite like the guy.

BUT.... "


3VS

[Ferretfancy]

I can see where you're coming from Squire.

[ahinton]

It's just occurred to me to that not only are the sounds for the Cyrillic equivalent of "b" and "v" (being) to some degree interchangeable but they are next to each other on the keyboard. Could it be a simple typo? In the context "vaseline" makes as much sense as "baseline".

That this is indeed perfectly possible had already occurred to me as well...

[teamsaint]

Week in week out (or most of what Andy Townsend says).

He and the idiot he commentates with ...how did they ever get jobs.
My pet disliked phrase

"That magic/special night in Munich....."

[amateur51]

'coining it' ... especially when it is used incorrectly ... french frank could not really be credited with 'coining' the term, merely cunningly adapting it to describe quite separate events?

'Twas the act of adaptation that I was referring to, scotty.

[cloughie]

He and the idiot he commentates with ...how did they ever get jobs.
My pet disliked phrase

"That magic/special night in Munich....."

Maybe the BBC do some things right. Doesn't Mr Pleat, the architect of Wednesday's demise also work for that team!

[teamsaint]

Maybe the BBC do some things right. Doesn't Mr Pleat, the architect of Wednesday's demise also work for that team!

"Less bad than ITV" is how i would describe the BBC commentators.
Shearer is an absolutely useless "pundit".

Lee dixon is excellent, though.

[3rd Viennese School]

Why don't I trust people who start their sentences with

"To be honest..."

3VS

[Pabmusic]

Why don't I trust people who start their sentences with

"To be honest..."

3VS

Yes, it's an odd one, isn't it? I suppose it implies that I haven't been honest so far, but for this next statement I will be. Actually (to be honest) it's a phrase I often use, but as a sort of automatic 'breathing mark' to allow me to gather my thoughts (to be honest). A sort of slightly up-market 'like' or 'well' - 'well, we was - like - hangin' round, when he says - like - "let's check out this - like - post on the Radio 3 Forum".

[vinteuil]

Why don't I trust people who start their sentences with

"To be honest..."

... and certainly - never trust men with velvet collars on their overcoats...

[Serial_Apologist]

... and certainly - never trust men with velvet collars on their overcoats...

Speaking of whom, a certain very large "gentleman" called one day after my father's passing, announcing himself as "A friend or Mrs ___" (the undertaker), who could "help me out" while awaiting probate over a number of choice antiques he had observed on previous visits to "your dear father". His mate was so dressed, plus 1950s trilby with feather on the side for sartorial completeness. We named them "the two vultures".