Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[vinteuil]

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... I'm expecting the big Bach box today. It is being delivered by DHL - I see it is currently at their ... "Sortation Facility"


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[Richard Tarleton]

Not a new word...see here for trends.....more used in late Victorian era, with spike in 1976

[Bryn]

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... I'm expecting the big Bach box today. It is being delivered by DHL - I see it is currently at their ... "Sortation Facility"


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Sounds like they're leading you a merry dance.

[oddoneout]

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... I'm expecting the big Bach box today. It is being delivered by DHL - I see it is currently at their ... "Sortation Facility".

Which information of course neatly sidesteps any indication of when it will actually be moved in your direction...I had this with DHL recently when waiting for my new sound system. They were keen to keep telling me that, in effect, it had been put on the floor in some despatch warehouse in the wee small hours, but info as to when I could expect to see the van outside my house was a much more last minute affair, which I almost missed.

[Serial_Apologist]

'Mensware' could be a useful term, I suppose, for shops selling tools, footballs, guns - that sort of thing. There's a chain with a similar name that manages to retail an extraordinary variety of things that are supposed to be of prime interest to blokes. Perhaps Debenham's should take note.

[Stanfordian]

On the Berliner Philharmoniker website it included a review of Paavo Järvi conducting Brahms and Lutosławski that appeared in Der Tagesspiegel. The last section read:

“With verve and masterly aplomb, Järvi knows how to electrify the Berliner Philharmoniker.”

Ouch, that sounds dangerous! Why didn't someone turn at electricity off at the mains?

[ahinton]

On the Berliner Philharmoniker website it included a review of Paavo Järvi conducting Brahms and Lutosławski that appeared in Der Tagesspiegel. The last section read:

“With verve and masterly aplomb, Järvi knows how to electrify the Berliner Philharmoniker.”

Ouch, that sounds dangerous! Why didn't someone turn at electricity off at the mains?

Was that supposed to be a plug?

[kernelbogey]

Was that supposed to be a plug?

Just shows that he is a good conductor!

[Serial_Apologist]

Was that supposed to be a plug?

Just a current opinion.

[LMcD]

Was that supposed to be a plug?

Socket to 'em!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Socket to 'em!

There's no charge.

[Triforium]

There's no charge.

Early adapter?

[Stanfordian]

Early adapter?

Shocking!

[Serial_Apologist]

Shocking!

Con fusing!

[kernelbogey]

Just a current view.