Words or phrases people say

Artie Fufkin said:
On "tenderhooks" and "chomping" at the bit get on my wick a bit, as does someone saying they went to the shop and "brought" some food, I've only know 1 person that said that and she insisted it was correct to say, for example, she brought a new telly at the weekend 😡
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Maybe she means brought as in she brought it from the TV shop, after she bought it. Or maybe she took some food to the shop? :ROFLMAO:
I hate it when people get bought and brought mixed up tough, drives me wild too.

You could have taken her apart using brought, could have dragged out the winding up for a good few minutes?
 
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Andy_W said:
Maybe she means brought as in she brought it from the TV shop, after she bought it. Or maybe she took some food to the shop? :ROFLMAO:
I hate it when people get bought and brought mixed up tough, drives me wild too.

You could have taken her apart using brought, could have dragged out the winding up for a good few minutes?
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We did, regularly, especially if she nipped downstairs, we'd always ask her to buy something up with her
 
Gammon / woke and snowflake..... Where did the definition of words come from? They all do my head in

You look on twitter and they are everywhere daily.
 
STAFFORDA4 said:
When I started in Argos customer services a couple of years ago, after my first call that I dealt with, I got a card from the 12 year old manager saying “Today you rocked, you were awesome”. I could’ve puked
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but if you indeed did rock and were totally awesome, then this small token of recognition might have been justified?
 
Not really a phrase, but when people cheer when someone drops a glass in a pub. It's not so bad if it's your mate and you're taking the pi$$, but when it's one of the staff who has to put up with it every day it can get a bit boring for them, I guess.
 
People who use the word "literally", but dont actually understand what it means.

There is an ebay advert for a guitar, where the seller is banging on about how good it is. "It literally plays itself".

Football pundits often misuse this word.
 
Steer said:
People who use the word "literally", but dont actually understand what it means.

There is an ebay advert for a guitar, where the seller is banging on about how good it is. "It literally plays itself".

Football pundits often misuse this word.
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Do you ever watch the TV series Archer? The writer must have a thing about that because they always use literally and figuratively. But they always use it correctly. They even make a thing about it one of the many running gags
 
Laughing said:
First up is someone using deluded for anyone who has a different opinion.

Then we have - "It had to be said", usually when you have said something that upset someone. My mother in law used to use this all the time when slagging of friends and neighbours.

My daughters referring to me and my wife as "you'se guys", I don't even like "You guys", I gave you life have some respect you checky tarts.
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People who think it is appropriate to call their daughters 'checky'.
 
Artie Fufkin said:
On "tenderhooks" and "chomping" at the bit get on my wick a bit, as does someone saying they went to the shop and "brought" some food, I've only know 1 person that said that and she insisted it was correct to say, for example, she brought a new telly at the weekend 😡
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On that subject Artie, it used to annoy me people using the phrase "one trick pony" I was convinced it was "one trap pony", which actually makes much more sense, if you use trap in the sense of carriage. I investigated this a few years ago, and it is "one trick pony" I am still absoloutely positive it derived from one trap pony, as that is the only one of the two phrases that makes any sense.
 
Use of the word technically when talking about football. It is meaningless. He is technically a better player, is the same as he is a better player. They are technically a very good side = they are a very good side.
 
Misused sporting equivelants and analogies. They need someone to quaterback the game. No they don't they need better players, not a quaterback. I can see boro's scouting network presenting an NFL quaterback as a striker for NW though. If this was a boxing match the referee would stop the fight. Of course he would, theres 22 people in the ring. They have got a couple of extra gears. No they are lazy, or tired, too many games you understand. They need someone to grab the game by the scruff of the neck, nope they need better more combatative players, or just plain "technically" better players.

It's like every ex-footballer who can string a sentence together thinks they are sports answer to the bard.
 
Artie Fufkin said:
On "tenderhooks" and "chomping" at the bit get on my wick a bit, as does someone saying they went to the shop and "brought" some food, I've only know 1 person that said that and she insisted it was correct to say, for example, she brought a new telly at the weekend 😡
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You see, there is another. Its not tenderhooks, its tenterhooks, which means to wait nervously for something to happen.

The brought thing is annoying, I've only ever heard one person say it too. He is dyslexic and has some other issues so he gets a free pass :)
 
Finetoothcomb - no such thing, although you can have a tooth brush.

Should be a fine toothed comb. I had a boss pick me up on that once.
 
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