Stupid Phrases

[neil_merseyside]

Is pre-order allowed?

 

[sheddy]

^ er, no. It just has a longer lead time.

 

[sheddy]

Road Traffic Accident.
FFS, shirley its been 10 years since RTA was dropped in favour of RTC.

 

[Drago]

Indeed. Why road traffic anything? Its a crash,

 

[classic33]

dredging the barrel....

newly pregnant, just showing, mid term, heavily pregnant, all very understandable.

Serving, suspended, former, retired ... Police officer

less lethal vs more lethal I agree on , that's silly. A weapon is either lethal or not.

Two possibles
From when food was made or stored in a barrel, you'd have to clean them out. Or what was in the barrel was on short supply. You scraped the bottom to get everything out.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Police calling the public 'civilians'.

Why do the want to set themselves apart in the first place, but having done that, why choose a word for the public that better represents them as the civil servants they actually are?

 

[dodgy]

boys will be boys, ??? what else would they be

I will go against perhaps the majority here and say I quite like the efficiency of this phrase. Other languages have lots of examples like this.

 

[Milzy]

Pampas grass outside your house means you’re a swinger.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Used far too often during the Covid crisis.

We are where we are.

 

[Gunk]

“I’m not racist” usually means that they are

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Pampas grass outside your house means you’re a swinger.

I'm off to plant a load in random gardens...and outside the old folks home.

 

[Drago]

Some of my best friends are black...

Translation:

I do not know any black people.

 

[carpiste]

"that`s what it`s all about!" said very often on Flog it by the host after they make a few quid on something sold.....
He`s wrong!


It`s the Okey cokey!

 

[carpiste]

" I don`t mean to sound rude but...."

 

[Drago]

Another one that makes the vein in my forehead throb...

People using the word 'literally' when they actually mean 'figuratively'. It literally makes my blood boil.