Phrases that have started getting on my nerves: "It's your round, Chris" "Time gentlemen, please" "This is a newsagent's shop, not a library - and make sure that you put it back on the top shelf" "If you do that again, I'll call security" ;-)
A recent trendy phrase here in the U.S. is "Speaking truth to power". As far as I can determine it means speaking a profound bur perhaps unpleasant truth to someone in political or some other power structure above your station… Yikes!
After the recent BBC interior design programme, "upcycling" meaning "do up" or "renovate" or many other perfectly legitimate words or phrases. GRRRRR!!
and on all phone calls to companies "is there anything else I can help you with today?"
Yes, actually we have a proliferation of woodlice in the conservatory ......
Any 111 conversations.
Ages ago I rang them when youngest son was crying with earache (has very little sense of pain and had had painkillers).
Their first 3 questions-
is he conscious?
is he breathing?
is he bleeding?
Now I admit I'm not a qualified doctor, but i think even i might have mentioned a lack of breathing before getting onto the earache!
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