Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Sir Velo]

..... in a competitive market place going forward with a raft of etc s. )

Expect shortly to hear raft used as a verb, as in: "to raft"; "We are going to raft a whole load of policies".

[Pabmusic]

Expect shortly to hear raft used as a verb, as in: "to raft"; "We are going to raft a whole load of policies".

We're almost there anyway. Here's the verb form (American, at least) dating from 1706:

transitive verb

1: to transport in the form of or by means of a raft; also : to convey (as pebbles) in floating ice or masses of organic material
2: to make into a raft

intransitive verb

: to travel by raft

Source: Merriam-Webster

All that's needed is the figurative sense.

[teamsaint]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Rafter

[Hornspieler]

A Big Ask

[vinteuil]

... unless rephrased : "Does my ask look big in this?"

[amateur51]

... unless rephrased : "Does my ask look big in this?"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Since it is alleged that adjectives can be adverbs, nouns can be verbs and the preposition "to" can be used for most of the others, why don't we dump half the words in the language and use only adjectives, nouns and "to"?

[Mahler's3rd]

1. Touching Base
2. Going Forward (Who makes progress going backwards unless your a rower)
3. Football Commentators who say "Unbelievable" all the time (Everything: Shot/Save/Cross/Freekick, Can't Be Unbelievable)

[ahinton]

More "in the way of" showers and "more organised rain" as often heard in weather forecasts; the forecaster never identifies the particular meteorological phenomenon that is anticipated to obstruct (i.e. get "in the way of") showers and the notion of "organised" rainfall might be offensive to atheists...

[Nick Armstrong]

1. Touching Base

People know better than to suggest "touching base" with me in the office, as I tend to reply that I'll see them in the Tribunal for inappropriate physical contact...

[handsomefortune]

'it's not a level playing field' used to be ok imo but recently it's often misapplied, as a common excuse for just about anything, and becomes senseless.

question : horse meat in your beef balls.....? answer: well, it's not a level playing field!

1. Who makes progress going backwards

can i offer a raft of possible answers: the current coalition, and arguably tv period dramas?

[Mahler's3rd]

[handsomefortune]

People know better than to suggest "touching base" with me in the office, as I tend to reply that I'll see them in the Tribunal for inappropriate physical contact...

that's odd caliban, because the same phrase often reminds me of 'touching cloth'! (which in turn, i associate with a mysterious religious ritual of olde used by devout followers of the klu klux klan)...... a phrase which signals 'a personal emergency'.

[Nick Armstrong]

that's odd caliban, because the same phrase often reminds me of 'touching cloth'! (which in turn, i associate with a mysterious religious ritual of olde used by devout followers of the klu klux klan)...... a phrase which signals 'a personal emergency'.

Whichever way you slice it () 'touching base' is an enormously silly expression!!

[scottycelt]

Football Commentators who say "Unbelievable" all the time (Everything: Shot/Save/Cross/Freekick, Can't Be Unbelievable)

And ... 'he has really good feet' ... 'he should have at least hit the target from there' (presumably hitting it straight at the 'keeper is more impressive?) ... 'he went to ground far too easily for my liking' ... 'how the referee can give that from where he was standing is quite beyond me' ...