Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Stanfordian]

"Snowflake": well I know what a snowflake is, as in it falls from the sky in winter, usually when it's cold. But otherwise? It has crept into another thread and, grr, what the hell is it supposed to mean? Something which melts quickly? Just awful. I don't follow this thread as I have no doubt that the horrors it exposes would just enrage me so if it has appeared before, my apologies.

What's not to like!

[Bryn]

What's not to like!

What's not to 'unlike'?

[edashtav]

What's not to 'unlike'?

Snowflake, meaning #2 in Oxford Living Dictionary:

2derogatory, informal An overly sensitive or easily offended person, or one who believes they are entitled to special treatment on account of their supposedly unique characteristics.
‘these little snowflakes will soon discover that life doesn't come with trigger warnings’
‘these parents think their kid is such a special snowflake that they should be allowed to circumvent the rules’

Like a snowflake, this meaning may be a transitory, short-lived one, but , for a while, it has filled a gap.

[HighlandDougie]

Noted. The use of ‘snowflake’ in this way just sets my teeth on edge.

[oddoneout]

Noted. The use of ‘snowflake’ in this way just sets my teeth on edge.

There are toothpastes that claim to be able to help cold-sensitive teeth.....

[LMcD]

A comment piece currently on the Business section of the BBC News website concerning the drop in Sage's share price attributes the company's problems to 'inconsistent operational execution'.

[cloughie]

A comment piece currently on the Business section of the BBC News website concerning the drop in Sage's share price attributes the company's problems to 'inconsistent operational execution'.

Is that the same as rubbish management?

[french frank]

I feel 'north of' is an unnecessary addition to cool-speak; OED's earliest example is 1978:

Guardian Weekly 28 May 10/1 Money supply growth for the past year has ended up quite a long way north of the target band—at 16¼ per cent.

I dislike it because I associate it generally with large amounts, or what seem like large amounts to me

'They're paying him north of £500k pa.'
'The final cost will be north of £800 million.'

[vinteuil]

I feel 'north of' is an unnecessary addition to cool-speak; OED's earliest example is 1978:

Guardian Weekly 28 May 10/1 Money supply growth for the past year has ended up quite a long way north of the target band—at 16¼ per cent.

I dislike it because I associate it generally with large amounts, or what seem like large amounts to me

'They're paying him north of £500k pa.'
'The final cost will be north of £800 million.'

... but whence your dislike of 'large amounts'?

Sounds a bit chippy to me...



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[Stanfordian]

I get it!

[kernelbogey]

I feel 'north of' is an unnecessary addition to cool-speak; OED's earliest example is 1978:

It's redolent too of people who say (for example) Watford is just above London.

And is Frenchie's anathema phrase in use in the southern hemisphere, I wonder?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Particularly ironic in that most people who are paid more than £500k live South of Watford. (Unless that's what Stanf was admitting to in #4270! - and, if so, perhaps I should have said "Unless that's what my best friend Stanf ... " )

[Stanfordian]

Particularly ironic in that most people who are paid more than £500k live South of Watford. (Unless that's what Stanf was admitting to in #4270! - and, if so, perhaps I should have said "Unless that's what my best friend Stanf ... " )

It's the term 'I get it' that irks. Nothing to do with high earners South of Watford.

[LMcD]

I feel 'north of' is an unnecessary addition to cool-speak; OED's earliest example is 1978:

Guardian Weekly 28 May 10/1 Money supply growth for the past year has ended up quite a long way north of the target band—at 16¼ per cent.

I dislike it because I associate it generally with large amounts, or what seem like large amounts to me

'They're paying him north of £500k pa.'
'The final cost will be north of £800 million.'

Falling share prices are said to be heading South. Do you suppose these two compass points are transposed in the Southern Hemisphere?

[vinteuil]

Falling share prices are said to be heading South. Do you suppose these two compass points are transposed in the Southern Hemisphere?

... only if they hold their graph paper upside down.


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