Phrases I`m getting increasingly sick of hearing

[Shut Up Legs]

I was in America a few years ago i was chatting to an American about he said he uses a weed eater to cut the grass round trees and edge the lawn.What the hell is a weed eater.what he described was a strimer.

My parents had a weed eater when I was younger, no kidding. I vividly recall it didn't like me much.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Has 'Back in the day',when referring to events in years gone by, been mentioned yet? I'm tired of hearing it,but seeing as it seems to be a fairly new phrase i think i'm going to be hearing it a lot more!

 

[Colin_P]

From the newspapers with lots of pictures...

"Putting on a very leggy display"
"Putting on a very busty display"
"Effortlessly chic"

 

[mudsticks]

From the newspapers with lots of pictures...

"Putting on a very leggy display"
"Putting on a very busty display"
"Effortlessly chic"

Transcript

- has legs
- has a chest
- got dressed with some thought.

 

[Blue Hills]

From the newspapers with lots of pictures...

"Putting on a very leggy display"
"Putting on a very busty display"
"Effortlessly chic"

are those first two current?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

And tomorrow’s weather warning is...

 

[Accy cyclist]

, “Man up!”. What kind of parent uses that on a child?

Probably the ones who call their five year old son "little man". He's not a little man,he's a boy!

 

[avecReynolds531]

"We're ramping up..."

"...following the science..."

 

[Gunk]

Does anyone else get irritated by complete strangers calling you “buddy” the chap who served me earlier today at the petrol station insisted on saying it, I’m sure he was just trying to be friendly, but I bloody hate it.

 

[Flakey]

The real reason I hate this is that I'm worried it may be true - but I'm f'in sick of hearing about "the new normal".

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Anything described as unprecedented.

 

[MontyVeda]

Annoyingly, I've noticed myself saying Don't worry, this is my usual cough... quite a bit in recent weeks.

 

[classic33]

"Two metres, please!" met with "Don't you mean 6'7"?" "No I said two metres". Usually said as the turn up behind expecting me to move forward for them.

 

[slowmotion]

Anything described as unprecedented.

Six weeks ago that almost always came in the same sentence as "eerily quiet". Do journalists have a bit of software that churns out endless clichés?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Has 'Back in the day',when referring to events in years gone by, been mentioned yet? I'm tired of hearing it,but seeing as it seems to be a fairly new phrase i think i'm going to be hearing it a lot more!

That's not new, maybe it's been slowly spreading North? I've been hearing that one for what, getting on for 15 years... young colleagues had it in constant use in the mid 2000s when I was London based... most often it's used by a 17 year old to describe a situation that happened when he was 15. You see it on YouTube a lot too... seek out a popular song from 2 years ago and it'll have comments below such as "this was me and my bae's tune back in the day". It's definitely a youth phrase, see also "oh my days".