Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[kernelbogey]

Today Kate Molleson told listeners she'd "had a blast" presenting Essential Classics this morning and yesterday.

Could she have been saying 'I'm avoiding Ma Vlast'?

[ardcarp]

Rather opposite to the spirit of this thread, I just love the expression 'Cringe Binge' for the act of obsessive watching of things such as Love Island and The Kardashians....which of course I know nothing about.

Should there be a 'Phrases I Love' thread?

[Boilk]

Rather opposite to the spirit of this thread, I just love the expression 'Cringe Binge' for the act of obsessive watching of things such as Love Island and The Kardashians....which of course I know nothing about.

I've always thought of Love Island and The Kardashians as polite euphemisms for Lust Island and The Car Crashians.

[Serial_Apologist]

I believe it's something similar to a 'gas', M'Lud.

Would you let your servants sniff it?

[LMcD]

Would you let your servants sniff it?

Only if they let me have their copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

[Serial_Apologist]

Only if they let me have their copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Next, on BBC2, a case of day jar voo" - announcer on BBC1 just now.

[Dave2002]

Today Kate Molleson told listeners she'd "had a blast" presenting Essential Classics this morning and yesterday. What does this mean, and what are we to make of it?

A friend of mine and his son climbed up Mt Shasta. At the top he produced a couple of plastic bags (I’m told), which prompted the question “What’s this for?” Then he set off down the snow covered slope on his own bag. At the bottom they agreed that that had been “a blast”.

These guys are/were a bit weird, though!

This story dates from around 1991-2 IIRC.

[kernelbogey]

I may shortly attend - if that's the verbe juste - my first webinar.

What a horrible neologism.

For those in merciful ignorance, it is an event or seminar (in this case a lecture) streamed online.

[Stanfordian]

Rather opposite to the spirit of this thread, I just love the expression 'Cringe Binge' for the act of obsessive watching of things such as Love Island and The Kardashians....which of course I know nothing about.

Should there be a 'Phrases I Love' thread?

Oh yes, I get it! 'Love Island' is a newly discovered tone poem by Rachmaninov and 'The Kardashians' is string quartet specialising in Schubert and Brahms.

[DracoM]

[kernelbogey]

...and 'The Kardashians' is string quartet specialising in Schubert and Brahms.

And, of course, not forgetting their discovery and pioneering recording of Khachaturian's lost (and unfinished) 'Kimono' quartet.

[Rolmill]

...'The Kardashians' is string quartet specialising in Schubert and Brahms.

I think you'll find it's Brahms and Liszt...

[Stanfordian]

I think you'll find it's Brahms and Liszt...

You are not wrong here!

[LMcD]

Reports on the latest Brexit developments repeatedly suggest that 'both sides are close to an agreement' - with each other, presumably.....