Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

**Serial_Apologist** · 10-06-18, 11:35

Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post

A CIFer is someone who comments on a Guardian article ("Comment Is Free").

I use it for cleaning my bath.

**LMcD** · 10-06-18, 12:52

Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post

A CIFer is someone who comments on a Guardian article ("Comment Is Free").

If possible, I like to learn a new fact every day - so thank you! I've now found out that 'Comment Is Free' was established some time ago.

**LMcD** · 11-06-18, 12:06

'Temporary reprieve'

**Serial_Apologist** · 11-06-18, 13:26

Originally posted by LMcD View Post

If possible, I like to learn a new fact every day - so thank you! I've now found out that 'Comment Is Free' was established some time ago.

Life-changing revelations!

**Serial_Apologist** · 11-06-18, 13:27

Originally posted by LMcD View Post

'Temporary reprieve'

It's a bit like being "in remission", which until the other day I'd always thought of as meaning "cured" - which it doesn't, at all.

**Eine Alpensinfonie** · 11-06-18, 14:59

Originally posted by jean View Post

Crescing. Why not?

Because the second C would be soft, so it would sound like a salad vegetable.

**greenilex** · 11-06-18, 15:21

Are you positive it wouldn’t rhyme with meshing?

**Pulcinella** · 11-06-18, 15:32

I took a Gramophone read to be a purchase bought as a consequence of reading the Gramphone review.

**cloughie** · 11-06-18, 15:52

Originally posted by greenilex View Post

Are you positive it wouldn’t rhyme with meshing?

Sure, it should be crescending!

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 11-06-18, 16:35

Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

I took a Gramophone read to be a purchase bought as a consequence of reading the Gramphone review.

So did I at first - but spending "£100,999+" on "Gramophone reads and CDs" seemed a lot of copies of Gramophone: "on Gramophone records and CDs over my life" seemed more "comfortable" (even if, evidently, quite a long life as suggested by the faintly quaint term "gramophone record").

**cloughie** · 11-06-18, 17:17

Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

I took a Gramophone read to be a purchase bought as a consequence of reading the Gramphone review.

But gramophones had horns not reads!

**LMcD** · 20-06-18, 07:51

'Mission-critical cloud' - used by Microsoft when discussing its contract with the US Border Agency.

**kernelbogey** · 02-07-18, 10:02

'Look at that!' as exclaimed ad nauseam by tv presenters sent off to look at new houses/countries/gardens et al.

**LMcD** · 02-07-18, 11:47

TV newsreaders who, when talking 'down the line' to a reporter who probably has nothing new to add to a filmed report that's just been aired, asks him or her to 'give us a sense of where we're at as far as this issue is concerned'.

**kernelbogey** · 02-07-18, 11:55

Originally posted by LMcD View Post

TV newsreaders who, when talking 'down the line' to a reporter who probably has nothing new to add to a filmed report that's just been aired, asks him or her to 'give us a sense of where we're at as far as this issue is concerned'.

'Yes, that's right, LMcD...'