What English expression do you hate the most?

[wiggydiggy]

"New and Improved"

No. Is it New OR Improved, it cannot be both.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Throw the baby out with the bath water.
Only fools and horses work
Sling your hook
Cold world
Who are we?
When all is said and done
At the end of the day…

Hang on a minute, at the end of the day if you got rid of all those phrases, that would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Sling your hook, @Milzy!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Throw the baby out with the bath water.
Only fools and horses work
Sling your hook
Cold world
Who are we?
When all is said and done
At the end of the day…

Excellent suggestions to throw into the strategy wok and see what emerges

 

[Dogtrousers]

Another thing that I don't like (I'm not going so far as to say I hate it) is the twee phrasing you often found in office communications circa 1989. I don't know if it still happens.

Methinks tis time to retire to a local hostelry for a libation. That kind of thing.

 

[matticus]

Another thing that I don't like (I'm not going so far as to say I hate it) is the twee phrasing you often found in office communications circa 1989. I don't know if it still happens.

Methinks tis time to retire to a local hostelry for a libation. That kind of thing.

Blimey. 35 years.

Feel better now?!?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Blimey. 35 years.

Feel better now?!?

I think it reached its zenith then, but there may still be people cutely referring to pubs as "hostelries" and drinks as "libations". Methinks.

 

[Brandane]

I think it reached its zenith then, but there may still be people cutely referring to pubs as "hostelries" and drinks as "libations". Methinks.

We used to refer to all of these phrases and the more modern ones, under the collective term of "w*nkspeak", which seemed very appropriate. I expect that word is frowned upon these days.

 

[Gwylan]

What are the draws you put on in winter?

I genuinely have no idea what you are referring to there, presumably a regional thing.

Underpant, knickers, bloomers, Calvins.

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/underpants

 

[Dogtrousers]

We used to refer to all of these phrases and the more modern ones, under the collective term of "w*nkspeak", which seemed very appropriate. I expect that word is frowned upon these days.

Maybe we're living in an alternative Orwell universe. Big W*nker is watching you.

 

[raleighnut]

Maybe we're living in an alternative Orwell universe. Big W*nker is watching you.

Nah Boris went a long time ago

 

[Brandane]

Underpant, knickers, bloomers, Calvins.

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/underpants

 

[Drago]

Underpant, knickers, bloomers, Calvins.

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/underpants

The correct term is Y fronts.

 

[Alex321]

Underpant, knickers, bloomers, Calvins.

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/underpants

OK. Well apart from the fact those are still "drawers", not "draws", do you "go commando" except in Winter then?

("Go commando" is one of those phrases I'm not keen on either)

 

[Jameshow]

"New and Improved"

No. Is it New OR Improved, it cannot be both.

Yes it can. A new recipe can be an improvement on the old!

 

[Alex321]

"New and Improved"

No. Is it New OR Improved, it cannot be both.

Hopefully, it will always be both, though too often is isn't.

I can see why you are saying that, but "new" does not mean a completekly new product in these cases, it means a new version of the product (e.g. A new recipe for that can of vegetable soup).