Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Surely you'd get three scoops then?

Dollop for two sc**ps
Trollop for three sc**ps

Now there's an ice cream shop I'd visit regularly.

[Nick Armstrong]

Dollops.

Good word, I don't use it enough... and shall mend my ways

"Trollopes" ... Surely you'd get three scoops then?

You're going to have to explain that to me, kernel... (edit: and Baxo who obviously gets it too!)

[mangerton]

Dollops.

And I like to think it has an olde English usage as well - but maybe I'm thinking of trollop.

A good word, but not used so much in Scotland, where I think "daud" would be the word.

Edit: "trollop" for three

[Stanfordian]

The trend of saying "really, really well". This started I think in the horse racing community describing how well a horse has been performing at home or how it performed in a race. It really, really sounds childish. It really, really grates on me as so many people are now using it repeatedly. It can even be heard on Radio 4. Really!

[Nick Armstrong]

Once I did say "er, actually no." At which point the waitress disappeared stage left tout de suite never to approach our table again.

I was once asked three times during a quick stop at a well-known serve-yourself sushi chain... The first two times I just nodded, as it would have been rude to speak with my mouth full; on the third occasion I just said "Fine apart from the constant interruptions"...

[Serial_Apologist]

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You're going to have to explain that to me, kernel... (edit: and Baxo who obviously gets it too!)

I was wondering if it had anything to do with two birds in the hand being better than one in the bush!

[Nick Armstrong]

I was wondering if it had anything to do with two birds in the hand being better than one in the bush!

I can hear frenchie's robots firing up *tuk tuk tuk*....

[Don Petter]

'Is everything all right for you?', when you're half way through your meal.

The one that throws me is to be asked, after ordering food in a cafe, 'Is that everything?'.

I always panic inwardly thinking 'What obvious item have I missed? We'll be a laughing stock in the kitchen and they'll fall about saying "He ordered X and Y, but no Z!"'.

[ahinton]

badly as used by Cameron, as in "we badly need" to do something. Idiot.

Even that's surely better than "we need to do something badly", wouldn't you say?...

[kernelbogey]

[COLOR="#0000FF"] You're going to have to explain that to me, kernel... (edit: and Baxo who obviously gets it too!)

I believe old Norman for a 'scoop' is 'un lop'. Hence 'Deux lops, s'il vous plait, Mademoiselle', 'trois lops' etcetera.

[teamsaint]

Stakeholder.

Not in the old B and W horror movies way...

[Richard Tarleton]

7 pages of excellent suggestions, and nobody (unless I've missed it) seems to have mentioned my pet bugbear - "No problem", or worse, "Not a problem". Just about every service and hospitality provider seems to use it. One is tempted to reply "I should hope not, that's what you're here/there for". "Service provider" - probably another one there.....

Weathermen and women have a lexicon of phrases all of their own. There's one (female) one on the BBC who never misses an opportunity to say "What a difference a day makes"

[Nick Armstrong]

I believe old Norman for a 'scoop' is 'un lop'. Hence 'Deux lops, s'il vous plait, Mademoiselle', 'trois lops' etcetera.

Good heavens, that was much more erudite than I had feared!!

[teamsaint]

I believe old Norman for a 'scoop' is 'un lop'. Hence 'Deux lops, s'il vous plait, Mademoiselle', 'trois lops' etcetera.

Is that not 'ampshire franglais, Mush?

[ahinton]

But we've had bus stations since time immoral. Train station is a recent abomination.

What's wrong with "train station"? - especially since "bus station" and "police station" are long established and accepted terms in the first of which you'd expect to find buses and in the second the handful of police who have yet to relocate their territory of operation to Asda and the like.