Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[kernelbogey]

When I first saw that I read it as Lamb Pasadena - a leisurely meal with the Temperance Seven as background music maybe!

You're driving me crazy!

[LMcD]

You're driving me crazy!

I can recommend a good - but pricey - therapist or two in Pasadena.

[cloughie]

I can recommend a good - but pricey - therapist or two in Pasadena.

...and there’s also the Roof Orchestra!

[french frank]

'takeaway' as in

Michael Cohen: Key takeaways from testimony (today's Guardian)

The British media read the American papers in order to know what's going on over there, though the term did begin to creep in in the 1990s. We shall soon be calling takeaway food 'takeouts'.

[Anastasius]

1) "Thank you for reaching out to us".....grrr... No, I did not reach out to you. I emailed you. My arms are not that long.

2) "Inappropriate" ...such a prissy word. Usually spoken through pursed lips and preceded by a "Tut tut".

[cloughie]

The British media read the American papers in order to know what's going on over there, though the term did begin to creep in in the 1990s. We shall soon be calling takeaway food 'takeouts'.

...or when eaten in the dark a ‘takeoutage’.

[cloughie]

1) "Thank you for reaching out to us".....grrr... No, I did not reach out to you. I emailed you. My arms are not that long.

2) "Inappropriate" ...such a prissy word. Usually spoken through pursed lips and preceded by a "Tut tut".

I agree with 1) but I feel 2) - well really rather inappropriate!

[french frank]

Just found a small notebook where I had noted down words and (then current) phrases which I might have labelled, 'Phrases/words that set my teeth on edge' had I thought of it:

Retail therapy
Must-have
'Shop till you drop' (supermarket slogan?)
'Take the waiting out of wanting' (slogan of Access credit card, later Mastercard)

Consumerism gone mad!

[vinteuil]

Retail therapy
Must-have
'Shop till you drop' (supermarket slogan?)
'Take the waiting out of wanting' (slogan of Access credit card, later Mastercard)

!

... perhaps still worse when transferred into French as "un must" - cf "les must de Cartier" -

https://trendland.com/les-must-de-cartier/

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[Serial_Apologist]

Just found a small notebook where I had noted down words and (then current) phrases which I might have labelled, 'Phrases/words that set my teeth on edge' had I thought of it:

Retail therapy
Must-have
'Shop till you drop' (supermarket slogan?)
'Take the waiting out of wanting' (slogan of Access credit card, later Mastercard)

Consumerism gone mad!

And "LIFESTYLE" - hanging over a supermarket aisle"!

(Almost as bad as "Recycled toilet rolls"!)

[burning dog]

Cricket - yes, I know, but wait.............

The word 'variations' seems to have disappeared from the vocab any commentator uses when describing the way bowlers can affect delivery of the different balls they bowl.
EVERY commentator now seems to be using the Robert Key neologism 'Change-ups'.

Why?? Oh, WHY?

A few years ago "bowling into good areas" became common which was then reduced to "bowling into areas" It was often heard on TV commentaries but I can only find one example in written journalism, thankfully.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/cricket/killeen-turns-breese-1622917

[ardcarp]

'Shop till you drop'

...though I must say the sign on (Tesco?) home delivery vans is mildly clever. 'You shop, we drop'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

...though I must say the sign on (Tesco?) home delivery vans is mildly clever. 'You shop, we drop'.

[visualnickmos]

...though I must say the sign on (Tesco?) home delivery vans is mildly clever. 'You shop, we drop'.

More than 'mildly clever' - it's actually brilliant; uncomplicated, short, witty, instantly understandable, has perfect rhythm, easy to remember (subliminally)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

More than 'mildly clever' - it's actually brilliant; uncomplicated, short, witty, instantly understandable, has perfect rhythm, easy to remember (subliminally)

Yes - it's what "See it, Say it, Sort it" wants to be when it grows up.