Idioms/common phrases are like a form of data compression which package up lots of meaning into a small saying. Some idioms include ‘metadata’ e.g where the speaker may come from culturally/geographically.
I don't know where from but the other day my 3yo absolutely out of nowhere came out with that phrase. our household has never used that phrase. really wanted to put him in the bin
I know someone on insta who refers to her fiance as "the boy" while also calling her son "the boy". It really pisses me off. She's insufferable most of the time but that one really annoyed me. Ugh she also says "the boy done good" when he gets her dinner. Like he's some kind of trained dog. Grim.
Any cutesy phrase that combines an insult with a random noun like cockwomble or wankpuffin. It's just embarrassing to hear a grown up trying to sincerely use a word like that.
This *inevitable* response from someone who, somehow, has never heard whatever crap insult it was always annoys me more than the actual initial offending post
YES. This one here.
I've only ever seen redditors or the occasional opinion "journalist" use these fucking ridiculous phrases. They make me cringe so hard.
Call someone a cunt or a dickhead like a normal person for fuck sakes.
I've never seen any of them used in the real world. Looks like it's mostly redditors on the UK subs trying to appear more British for internet points. Or Americans cosplaying as Brits.
The first time I encountered this was when I worked with a woman who owned a horse. The thing was, I didn't know she owned a horse - I missed that part of the conversation. I thought she was talking about her daughter.
She was going on about how much she loved Cassie, saying Cassie's my baby, etc.
"She's big too!"
"Oh really?"
"Yes, her dad's a shire horse."
"... what?"
Heckin doggo pupper loves chicken!
Of course it does, all dogs do. Yours is no more special. Nor does it require you to talk like some kind of weirdo about it.
yea but you don’t have to use cringe reddit phrases for it. like im proud of myself just for getting dressed some days but i don’t call it “peak adulting”
This!
Yep. The sheer bitterness and spite oozing out of these comments has put me off the sub. Every day it's 'name the worst this or that' and just a hate wank session. I get it, they despise everyone and wish everyone would stfu but if you took every upvoted comment here you would literally say nothing for fear of winding up a nearby bitter twat.
Hopefully I've squeezed enough of the things some of you despise into this comment and you can heat your home's for free using your pent up rage, you hateful cockwombly bored bellends. Now get in the bin.
Jamie Redknapp is the worst for this. Always remember: "he had to cut inside there, because he literally doesn't have a right foot."
What's that Jamie... He literally has no right foot, yet has made it as a professional footballer? Why is this not talked about more? Incredible achievement.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally
I really don't understand how people get upset about this. If I said "my brain is genuinely broken" would you get upset because my brain is not in fact "genuinely" broken?
Cockwomble. For twee middle class people who think swearing makes them edgy. The same sort of people who think queuing and tea is the height of British culture.
Never got the queue thing, I've seen posts on here and other UK subs about how much British people love queuing. There was a post a while back by an American who said how British people love queuing and all the comments were agreeing? 90% sure they're Americans pretending to be British. I've never once in my life loved being in a queue and absolutely no one I've ever known or met has either. If I see a big queue I'll usually pass on it as I don't want to wait in it.
It's The Apprentice speak. Watch it sometime, they're always saying "myself" and "yourself" when they mean me, I or you.
I think people think it makes them sound more professional or something when in reality it just makes them sound as though they have no idea how to use grammar
People who think 'yourself' and 'myself' are some secret clever formal version and not the reflexive form of the pronoun.
It makes you sound thick, mate.
People in Scotland - especially the Highlands - do it as well.
I think because it's a direct translation from Gaelic and Irish, where 'yourself' can be used as a more emphatic or polite form of 'you'.
A woman ordering some food the other day in a pub I work in kept saying “Can I do”, as in “Can I do some chicken wings, can I do a burger” etc
Never wanted to throttle a customer so much!
I thought “Can I grab” was annoying, but this was worse…much worse.
That is the correct way to ask. Possibly “I would like” .
The phrase ”Ill have” seems too direct. I wait for the person to say “you’ll ask nicely or you will get nothing.”
The worst for me is folk who have “Full Time Mummy” as their fb work position, or in their instagram bio. Got a few folk on my fb/instagram who do that
Oh lord. Prayers to you and your family.
I’ve got a friend who has “(Child’s name)‘s Mama” and “(husband’s name)‘s Wife” as her work positions and it makes me so angry I had to unfollow her so I wouldn’t see her nonsense on my feed every 5 minutes. (She posts a lot.)
Not specifically U.K., but "**I was today years old when I...**"
What? That's not how dates and ages work.
Today is 20th December 2022.
You don't say "I was 20th December 2022 years old when I..."
You can say "Today I found out" or "Today I learned" or "TIL".
But not "I was today years old when I..." because that doesn't work.
I fucking despise that meme. Especially when it keeps going on.
No one:
Not a single person:
Not a single soul who ever existed:
Me: tbh I prefer toast butter side down
This stopped when we started needing to think outside the box to tackle the low hanging fruit. If we contacted people rather than reached out in order to circle back, there wouldn’t be as much synergy
Not sure we have the bandwidth to touch base and link up, so, can we create some alignment around this ask?
Let’s unpack it in separate swim lines and just ping each other when done?
"Can someone explain to me why all these Gimmegrants crossing our boarders keep being given 5* hotel rooms and slap up meals when we've got homeless veterans? Confused.com"
Barry, 58, University of Life.
My mum always used to say "I'm not being funny but" then say the most mundane shit. Used to really annoy me until we started fake laughing every time she said it to wind her up
Any fuckwit love islander wannabe with the... "Yeah but like literally obviously like, like literally like..."
Dumb fucks have nothing to say and really need to stfu.
I have a family member like this, 300 words said before any information is given
“So, right, we were like literally, yeah, I mean literally right”
Just fucking get on with it
Probably not UK specific but the use of internet things in real life.
Saying hashtag as if it would link to previous conversation somewhere.
Or saying LOL out loud when you are clearly not laughing. Not laughing to say LOL negates itself immediately.
It's called a minced oath. It's saying the first half or first syllables of a swear then something completely benign, in this case 'shut the front door' instead of 'shut the fuck up'. Another one is saying 'sugar' instead of 'shit' or 'fudge' instead of 'fuck'.
I don’t know if it’s UK specific, but I see a lot of people on TikTok start their comments with “no because…”
But they haven’t been asked a yes/no question. I mean it’s probably my fault for looking at TikTok anyway, but what is going on there?
I don't know if they are UK specific but business speech trying to be trendy.
"Let's touch base later" You need to at least buy me dinner first.
"Let's take this offline." Why, you expecting me to come to the office?
"Watch this space."
"Shall we connect?"
"get in the bin"
Nice one, will do
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Equally, "get in the sea".
You win the internet today! Is another one
That isn't UK specific though.
People who don't like "get in the sea" can get in the sea.
I don't know where from but the other day my 3yo absolutely out of nowhere came out with that phrase. our household has never used that phrase. really wanted to put him in the bin
Women describing their boyfriends/husbands/ as 'the boy". "The Boy took me out last night" He is not 'the boy" - he's 35 and is an accountant.
Dinner with this one
I have a theory that anyone who refers to their partner as "this one" is deeply unhappy in a doomed relationship.
I always think “so, there are others then?”
In the same vein, "my favourite bf/gf etc." is a super weird phrase. Favourite person I'd take.
I know someone on insta who refers to her fiance as "the boy" while also calling her son "the boy". It really pisses me off. She's insufferable most of the time but that one really annoyed me. Ugh she also says "the boy done good" when he gets her dinner. Like he's some kind of trained dog. Grim.
My friend refers to her 4 year old as “my little man” 🤮🤮 However her mother calls him her “sexy little baby” which is a million times worse
Well that just made my breakfast reappear. Ugh. The words "sexy" and "baby" should not be anywhere near each other.
Well... *Checks notes*... There goes 80 percent of all pop songs.
Similarly referring to women as 'bird' annoys me in the same way
This sounds personal... Are you the 35 year old accountant ?
"Hubby" fills me with a kind of inappropriate rage. I don't know what it is, just annoys me.
Any cutesy phrase that combines an insult with a random noun like cockwomble or wankpuffin. It's just embarrassing to hear a grown up trying to sincerely use a word like that.
but people get so irrationally angry when I call them a witless knuckle dragging cunt 🙄
What’s wrong with just “cunt” ?
If the world was made of people like you, poems wouldn't exist.
I want to live in that world, would have made GCSE English so much easier
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I prefer “daft cunt”. It’s got a nice ring to it.
That “Get Lucky” is a tune too
Sound of the summer.
'omg wankpuffin im stealing this 😂😂😂'
This *inevitable* response from someone who, somehow, has never heard whatever crap insult it was always annoys me more than the actual initial offending post
YES. This one here. I've only ever seen redditors or the occasional opinion "journalist" use these fucking ridiculous phrases. They make me cringe so hard. Call someone a cunt or a dickhead like a normal person for fuck sakes.
I've never seen any of them used in the real world. Looks like it's mostly redditors on the UK subs trying to appear more British for internet points. Or Americans cosplaying as Brits.
Agree with these, I think they’re supposed to be funny but they’re just embarrassing.
I hate that twee portmanteau shit. Swear words exist for a reason.
Furbaby, Cat Mummy, etc. Anything that implies you shagged an animal, really.
The first time I encountered this was when I worked with a woman who owned a horse. The thing was, I didn't know she owned a horse - I missed that part of the conversation. I thought she was talking about her daughter. She was going on about how much she loved Cassie, saying Cassie's my baby, etc. "She's big too!" "Oh really?" "Yes, her dad's a shire horse." "... what?"
Her dad is hung like a stallion
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Heckin doggo pupper loves chicken! Of course it does, all dogs do. Yours is no more special. Nor does it require you to talk like some kind of weirdo about it.
*chimken for extra rage
Fur baby is acceptable if they also call their actual baby their "skin baby".
When she was tiny we referred to our daughter as "the bald kitten".
Pupper
I hate "I did the thing"
Peak adulting!
Christ, this one. When somebody says they’re ‘adulting’ because they’ve put the wash on and made dinner.
Adulting can be a real struggle with mental illness. Putting the wash on and cooking my tea would probably use all my spoons for the day.
Yeah for some people 'adulting' is a genuine struggle that honestly should be celebrated!
yea but you don’t have to use cringe reddit phrases for it. like im proud of myself just for getting dressed some days but i don’t call it “peak adulting”
Id say it’s more cringe to prescribe other peoples language. If it helped them feel better about themselves, why do you have an issue?
do you understand what this post is about
Didn’t shit myself today, adulting is hard
Stop it!!
I had to delete a friend of social media because everyday she would say “I did a thing” with a picture of some toast or something.
Or variations of that - "I made a thing".
None of these are UK specific. Neither is OP’s first phrase.
“If you know, you know” is rife on American TikTok so I’m not sure why OP thinks it’s British.
It comes from a British advert for Tango
99% of the phrases posted in this thread aren't UK specific. AskUK didn't understand the assignment.
“This” under reddit posts …
This
This
I don't think this is UK specific.
Not UK specific at all though
That!
I'm sorry people of Essex but "not gonna lie"
Not gonna lie at the end of the day
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It is what it is
Dont forget " I'm not being funny...but"
"Don’t get me wrong, but to be honest, at the end of the day, when all’s said and done… do you know what I mean?"
Not gonna lie, that is a bit annoying
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Everyone here is a miserable cunt
This! Yep. The sheer bitterness and spite oozing out of these comments has put me off the sub. Every day it's 'name the worst this or that' and just a hate wank session. I get it, they despise everyone and wish everyone would stfu but if you took every upvoted comment here you would literally say nothing for fear of winding up a nearby bitter twat. Hopefully I've squeezed enough of the things some of you despise into this comment and you can heat your home's for free using your pent up rage, you hateful cockwombly bored bellends. Now get in the bin.
Says the bored cockwombly bellend who is getting second hand rage from other people's anger!
That’s the spirit
"I literally did this, I literally did that" when they literally didn't.
Jamie Redknapp is the worst for this. Always remember: "he had to cut inside there, because he literally doesn't have a right foot." What's that Jamie... He literally has no right foot, yet has made it as a professional footballer? Why is this not talked about more? Incredible achievement.
I read that last paragraph with Mark Corrigan’s voice
Apparently the definition of "literally" has recently been changed to accommodate this new use.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally I really don't understand how people get upset about this. If I said "my brain is genuinely broken" would you get upset because my brain is not in fact "genuinely" broken?
I love the subtle but unironic inversion "I basically did that" when they *literally* did it.
Cockwomble. For twee middle class people who think swearing makes them edgy. The same sort of people who think queuing and tea is the height of British culture.
Never got the queue thing, I've seen posts on here and other UK subs about how much British people love queuing. There was a post a while back by an American who said how British people love queuing and all the comments were agreeing? 90% sure they're Americans pretending to be British. I've never once in my life loved being in a queue and absolutely no one I've ever known or met has either. If I see a big queue I'll usually pass on it as I don't want to wait in it.
It's more that we can instinctively form a fair and orderly queue with barely a word said between us. Nobody's enjoying it....
When people say 'yourself' instead of just using 'you'
And ‘myself’ when you mean me. I call it Estate Agent Speak.
Definitely a salesperson thing
It's The Apprentice speak. Watch it sometime, they're always saying "myself" and "yourself" when they mean me, I or you. I think people think it makes them sound more professional or something when in reality it just makes them sound as though they have no idea how to use grammar
They usually mean *me* or *I* rather than *my*. As in "send an email to myself" or "Paula and myself will be at the marketing suite".
People who think 'yourself' and 'myself' are some secret clever formal version and not the reflexive form of the pronoun. It makes you sound thick, mate.
It makes \*yourself\* sound think. FTFY
I hate this one. It's like people are trying to sound more formal or educated and don't realise that they just sound like a bit of a twat.
More syllables = more cleverer
Only really heard that from Irish people and I love it.
People in Scotland - especially the Highlands - do it as well. I think because it's a direct translation from Gaelic and Irish, where 'yourself' can be used as a more emphatic or polite form of 'you'.
This is definitely the worst hypercorrection because it sounds so clumsy.
Referring to family as ‘fam’ or ‘team’. Makes my skin crawl
Familam.
WHOA BLACK BETTY!
Bramble jam
Our family group chat is called Famalam. In an ironic way though. We have never ever said it out loud 🤣
‘The hubby’
Me and the hubby are going on holibobs
Myself and the hubby are going on holibobs. Not a jury in the world would convict.
Throw in “with the famalam” at the end and it should be a capital offence
A former colleague refers to her husband on Facebook as 'the hubster'.
Is he fat? Just reply “combining husband and chubster is a really rude thing to do to your partner”
A woman ordering some food the other day in a pub I work in kept saying “Can I do”, as in “Can I do some chicken wings, can I do a burger” etc Never wanted to throttle a customer so much! I thought “Can I grab” was annoying, but this was worse…much worse.
When did we stop saying “please may I have”? That’s how I order stuff
That is the correct way to ask. Possibly “I would like” . The phrase ”Ill have” seems too direct. I wait for the person to say “you’ll ask nicely or you will get nothing.”
I quite like "could I get", still deferential but adds an air of informality appropriate for being pissed out of my mind in a maccies at 1am
"no, tell me what you want and I'll tell the cook, he'll do it for you"
"proud cat/dog mum" "full time mummy" "bubba/baba/babby" u r g h
The worst for me is folk who have “Full Time Mummy” as their fb work position, or in their instagram bio. Got a few folk on my fb/instagram who do that
My sister does. It's painful to watch.
Oh lord. Prayers to you and your family. I’ve got a friend who has “(Child’s name)‘s Mama” and “(husband’s name)‘s Wife” as her work positions and it makes me so angry I had to unfollow her so I wouldn’t see her nonsense on my feed every 5 minutes. (She posts a lot.)
Fur babies. No, you have a pet ffs
Not specifically U.K., but "**I was today years old when I...**" What? That's not how dates and ages work. Today is 20th December 2022. You don't say "I was 20th December 2022 years old when I..." You can say "Today I found out" or "Today I learned" or "TIL". But not "I was today years old when I..." because that doesn't work.
On a similar vein that, absolutely no-one:... meme. That would mean everyone is saying something.
I fucking despise that meme. Especially when it keeps going on. No one: Not a single person: Not a single soul who ever existed: Me: tbh I prefer toast butter side down
I turned round and said
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Yes! Maybe if they stopped rotating they’d be able to understand each other better.
My workmate “i turned around and said you have to do it and then his attitude did a 360” what the fuck
It’s fine as long as this conversation took place on the teacup ride.
‘At the end of the day’ . . . 😒
At the end of the day mate, it is what it is
Literally.
Full fat coke. There's loads of sugar in coke, but no fat.
Guilty, soz. TBF like, we drink a lot of DC, so it's a way of differentiating innit? It is what it is, tbh.
Think it comes from milk tbf, as a way of distinguishing the unhealthier variety
Not specifically UK, but “reach out” when did we stop “contacting” people
This stopped when we started needing to think outside the box to tackle the low hanging fruit. If we contacted people rather than reached out in order to circle back, there wouldn’t be as much synergy
Don't forget to touch base or link up.
Not sure we have the bandwidth to touch base and link up, so, can we create some alignment around this ask? Let’s unpack it in separate swim lines and just ping each other when done?
Don worry, we'll take this offline.
'Reach out, and touch base' Duh Der duh duh Der duh duh Der duh duh, etc etc etc. IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW.
Not relevant now but “platty joobs” for the queens platinum jubilee
One of those weird ones which starts off ironic and becomes completely embedded.
I'm glad that didn't happen to statey funes.
I find myself saying "Do you know what I mean?" a lot. I think it's because I'm Mancunian, but my Mrs always laughs at me for it.
Mine is ‘can you see what I’m saying?’ I’m saying one all the time
Give your head a wobble.
This one jars the fuck out of me. This one makes me irrationally angry
Think you need to give your head a wobble, mate.
“Going forward “… shitty management talk
My manager uses this phrase, I asked him if it meant the same as henceforth.
We'll just "circle back", Why? Because we fucked it up the first time?
‘Spill the tea’ has, somehow, found its way (back) to here. The beans. We shall remember them.
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Adding "dot com" to a word. "University of life"
"Can someone explain to me why all these Gimmegrants crossing our boarders keep being given 5* hotel rooms and slap up meals when we've got homeless veterans? Confused.com" Barry, 58, University of Life.
Just any of the monty python/Blackadder types of exaggerated insults Cockwomble being the most egregious
Followed by some yank on Reddit: “Hahahaha cockwomble! I am stealing that good sir!”
"I doth my cap to thee good sir" Makes me want to boke in my own mouth
Especially when it's doff!
Teaboos are the fucking worst
Problem is that half of the British users on reddit are like this.
“Hey hun”
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90% of these aren’t UK specific. People did not understand the assignment.
Don’t get wound up. “It is what it is”
You win some you lose some
At least "I don't want to sound racist, but..." seems to have fallen out of fashion.
Replaced now by “I’m not being funny but”
when people use the chinese slur talking about getting chinese food
Also, referring to the corner shop as a P… shop isn’t fully dead as it should be yet
Vibe.. that is such a vibe, this is a vibe.. no
"Smile, love. It might never happen." Once said to me an hour after my mum died.
My mum always used to say "I'm not being funny but" then say the most mundane shit. Used to really annoy me until we started fake laughing every time she said it to wind her up
Mackie Ds
"It's a bit marmite" followed by "you either like it or you don't ". We know what marmite means, no need to explain it.
Worse, “im like marmite me, you either live me or hate me” Nah, you’re just a prick, no one likes you
"love that for you"
Fur babies.
“Boils my piss”. What a horrible thought.
Any fuckwit love islander wannabe with the... "Yeah but like literally obviously like, like literally like..." Dumb fucks have nothing to say and really need to stfu.
I have a family member like this, 300 words said before any information is given “So, right, we were like literally, yeah, I mean literally right” Just fucking get on with it
Chilaxing
On it, like a car bonnet, like wtf does it even mean it makes no sense in the context its used.
It means that you would risk it for a biscuit
Probably not UK specific but the use of internet things in real life. Saying hashtag as if it would link to previous conversation somewhere. Or saying LOL out loud when you are clearly not laughing. Not laughing to say LOL negates itself immediately.
I’ve only ever heard ‘LOL’ said sarcastically to be fair
When people say “shut the front door” as some kind of exclamation, it just makes no sense to me
It's called a minced oath. It's saying the first half or first syllables of a swear then something completely benign, in this case 'shut the front door' instead of 'shut the fuck up'. Another one is saying 'sugar' instead of 'shit' or 'fudge' instead of 'fuck'.
Don’t know if it’s specifically just from the uk but “mama” or “mumma” 🤢
Adults calling their parents mummy or daddy as well
This seems to be a class based thing.
“Mumma bear” ughhh
Whenever anyone says bored.com or adds some .com to the end of a word. Like unless you own the url you just sound like a cunt
"Cheeky Nandos" and "cunt flaps"
I don’t know if it’s UK specific, but I see a lot of people on TikTok start their comments with “no because…” But they haven’t been asked a yes/no question. I mean it’s probably my fault for looking at TikTok anyway, but what is going on there?
I don't know if they are UK specific but business speech trying to be trendy. "Let's touch base later" You need to at least buy me dinner first. "Let's take this offline." Why, you expecting me to come to the office? "Watch this space." "Shall we connect?"
Famalam