Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Flosshilde]

Some of my best friends are "Gay, Black, Moslem, Scottish Catholics"

so you don't have any disabled lesbian friends, then?

Or are they the ones that aren't "Gay, Black, Moslem, Scottish Catholics"?)

[Extended Play]

"Wake-up call" (possibly a good thing if it avoids "sleep-walking into" something nasty like a "ticking time-bomb")

Another contestant from weather forecasting: the chap on the wireless who keeps talking about "bits and pieces of rain"

Wanted to run those past you, so you can get a handle on where I'm coming from (acknowledgements to VodkaDilc #104)

And off-topic, congratulations to Amateur51 for exceeding 10,000 posts. Wow!

[amateur51]

And off-topic, congratulations to Amateur51 for exceeding 10,000 posts. Wow!

Cheers Extended Play

Others might be less impressed

[Alison]

In soccer

'Stonewall penalty'

[Scorrevole]

Breathtaking
Jaw-dropping
and
literally breathtaking
and
literally jaw-dropping.

People saying "on the weekend", instead of "at the weekend".

When you ask for an espresso in a coffee shop and the barista replies "An expresso".

"Barista"

Shop assistants (including "baristas") who say something like "y'arigh?" (presumably = "are you alright?") when they mean "How can I help you?", or "What would you like?".

[Serial_Apologist]

Breathtaking
Jaw-dropping
and
literally breathtaking
and
literally jaw-dropping.

People saying "on the weekend", instead of "at the weekend".

When you ask for an espresso in a coffee shop and the barista replies "An expresso".

"Barista"

Shop assistants (including "baristas") who say something like "y'arigh?" (presumably = "are you alright?") when they mean "How can I help you?", or "What would you like?".

Welcome to The Bored, Scorrevole.

[MrGongGong]

so you don't have any disabled lesbian friends, then?

Or are they the ones that aren't "Gay, Black, Moslem, Scottish Catholics"?)

I don't have ANY friends (now)

(actually I do have some disabled lesbian friends who are married ....... but I doubt my Scottish ones would agree )

[amateur51]

In soccer

'Stonewall penalty'

Oh I don't know what that is, sorry

[amateur51]

I don't have ANY friends (now)

(actually I do have some disabled lesbian friends who are married ....... but I doubt my Scottish ones would agree )

[EdgeleyRob]

In soccer

'Stonewall penalty'

Soccer Alison ?

[scottycelt]

...Shop assistants (including "baristas") who say something like "y'arigh?" (presumably = "are you alright?") when they mean "How can I help you?", or "What would you like?".

Ah, I can partly explain that!

Shop assistants are commonly instructed never to say to a prospective client 'how can I help you?' because management teaches that it 'invites a negative response'. Honestly!

They are instead advised to slyly sidle up to any innocent-looking and unsuspecting customer and say something like 'hello, have you seen this quite remarkable and inexpensive AAA battery recently imported from China?' Which, of course, invites even more of a negative response.

'Y'arigh?' is certainly a heck of a lot simpler!

[MrGongGong]

'Stonewall penalty'

I thought it was a plan to punish the evil doers ?

[Byas'd Opinion]

"Grow the business"
"Step change" (I once corrected this to "steep change", which I thought made slightly more sense).

[Flosshilde]

Doesn't exactly set my teeth on edge, but what does 'take a rain check' mean when you decline something? (actually, it does rather smtoe when it's used by people who don't know what it means, as I suspect most don't)

[Extended Play]

Breathtaking
Jaw-dropping
and
literally breathtaking
and
literally jaw-dropping.

and
eye-watering

Welcome from me, too, Scorrevole.