Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[muzzer]

Thanks for reaching out on this.

[Serial_Apologist]

Social media.

[LMcD]

'Trending'

[cloughie]

'Trending'

I absolutely agree - awful word!

[gurnemanz]

'Trending'

I hadn't noticed I disliked it till mentioned above - both word and concept. BBC news is on the bandwagon.

[Stanfordian]

'What's not to like?'

[ahinton]

'What's not to like?'

Any particular reason for your objection? Just curious...

[Stanfordian]

Any particular reason for your objection? Just curious...

Any particular reason for your objection to my suggestion? Just curious...

[vinteuil]

'What's not to like?'

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https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/whats-not-to-like.html

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[LMcD]

'Going forward'
'We can take lots of positives from this'
'Robust recovery plan'
All the above seem to be particularly popular with misbehaving Health Trusts (once they've been caught out)

[LMcD]

'Know what I mean?'

[french frank]

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https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/whats-not-to-like.html

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That seems a good reason to heartily dislike the phrase - which I do too, because I wrestle with the grammar. Can you just juxtapose any key words of an idea and expect everyone to understand the phrase? Goo' say quick meaning.

I don't hold to the view that life is so short and that events move so quickly that one needs to find the fewest number of words/syllables to convey one's thought, cutting, perhaps, a second or two from your utterance and reducing speech to a string of clichés.

What is there to dislike? Why use a cliché?

[cloughie]

Rock up

[Stanfordian]

Rock up

I know what you mean! - I think 'Rock Up' tends to apply more to say several men arriving somewhere rather than a group of nuns rocking up at the church fete.

[Richard Tarleton]

(Probably been on before)

"We take (x or y) very seriously."

When asked why they have done nothing about x or y up till now.