Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[P. G. Tipps]

Fewer people voting Tory.

Be careful, Tom Watson might well be rushing to your door today demanding a dinner-date ...

[MickyD]

I presume 'going forward' has already been cited on this thread. I think that one drives me more crazy than anything - whatever happened to 'in future'?

[Serial_Apologist]

I presume 'going forward' has already been cited on this thread. I think that one drives me more crazy than anything - whatever happened to 'in future'?

I think it's probably been postponed, if not cancelled...

[oddoneout]

.

... and what's this loop I'm supposed to be kept in?

It's a noose but loop sounds less aggressive.....

[P. G. Tipps]

A favourite phrase of the modern football commentator ... '... he has been caught ball-watching.'

When I was a young laddie would-be future stars like myself were repeatedly instructed by our coaches to 'keep your eye on the ball' ... and 'play the ball not the man'.

That might explain my subsequent football career failure. Clearly I was badly advised by my mentors.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's a noose but loop sounds less aggressive.....

"And now for the rest of today's noose"?

[teamsaint]

"And now for the rest of today's noose"?

Ah yes.

The purveyors of truth who have us hanging on their every word......

[P. G. Tipps]

'Crunching the numbers' ...

[johncorrigan]

A favourite phrase of the modern football commentator ... '... he has been caught ball-watching.'

When I was a young laddie would-be future stars like myself were repeatedly instructed by our coaches to 'keep your eye on the ball' ... and 'play the ball not the man'.

That might explain my subsequent football career failure. Clearly I was badly advised by my mentors.

That, and two left feet were my downfall, PGT!

[DracoM]

On Michael Rosen's prog on R4 - Word of Mouth - they've just dealt among others with 'So....' at the start of answers, my very unfavouritest bit of verbals.

[ahinton]

Be careful, Tom Watson might well be rushing to your door today demanding a dinner-date ...

Not my door, at least; no politician would come anywhere near that (even if only because most of them couldn't even find it)...

[jean]

On Michael Rosen's prog on R4 - Word of Mouth - they've just dealt among others with 'So....' at the start of answers...

When was that? This afternoon's seemed to be all about the language of video games so I didn't listen very carefully.

[Beef Oven!]

When was that? This afternoon's seemed to be all about the language of video games so I didn't listen very carefully.

You should listen more carefully - remember, you reap what you so.

[P. G. Tipps]

On Michael Rosen's prog on R4 - Word of Mouth - they've just dealt among others with 'So....' at the start of answers, my very unfavouritest bit of verbals.

Oh yes, 'they' appear to be all at it now ! In my experience politicians, strangely, are not the most guilty of employing this latest, utterly meaningless and grossly irritating Americanism.

That most supreme of Tipps' accolades tends to fall on those in the media introduced as 'experts' such as lecturers, philosophers, scientists and associated commentators.

Not that I generally suffer from a peculiar Goveian-style phobia regarding experts, you understand ...

[ahinton]

Oh yes, 'they' appear to be all at it now ! In my experience politicians, strangely, are not the most guilty of employing this latest, utterly meaningless and grossly irritating Americanism.

You're not Sydney Grew in disguise, are you?...

That most supreme of Tipps' accolades tends to fall on those in the media introduced as 'experts' such as lecturers, philosophers, scientists and associated commentators

"Most supreme" is a tautology.

Not that I generally suffer from a peculiar Goveian-style phobia regarding experts, you understand ...

Do I? I can try to do so, I guess...