Phrases that annoy you the most

Today English as it were spoke, so to say, no longer exists. We have throwaway clichés, language I really don't understand, but if there is one expression I always react to it happened again this weekend. People who come to see me once a year, waving goodbye and shouting "see you later". But I won't see them for a year, and strangely they always want to come at Le Mans weekend; so just what is "later"? For me it used to say "be back this evening" as I went off to the pub or the cinema, not next bloody year. It really gets my goat, and I don't hesitate to say so.

So what expressions really get to you? I'll be interested to see.

Good reply

I had to look it up myself:-

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-your-goat.h...

"to be honest" when they mean "to be frank" or "to be blunt". So you were lying the rest of the time?

So....

'I was doing *** LEPTONS', WTF do you think is going to happen if you say MPH you fking retarded tt?

"like"

I was on a train from London to Banbury recently and the group opposite had some dozy tart who couldn't utter three words without one of them being "like".

I could have happily strangled her by the end of the journey.

Can I get?

Lessons will be learned/learnt - billox!

"Square the circle" and "he/she turned round and said...." are two of my most disliked. Just remembered, "the car owes me." fk off, it's a car, it doesn't owe you anything.

Tim

'It's due to....' when refering to the weather - i.e 'it's due to rain at 2.'

The weather doesn't operate to a bloody timetable!

That, and all the 'blue sky thinking' type phrases.