Incorrectly used phrases

[mik]

(Where has the mis-quoted saying thread gone?)

Just heard on R4 chat show thingy:

“I really resonate with what you are saying”

Do you? Are you Mrs A.Bell?

I think you will find that what she is saying really resonates with you.

<sigh>

[DeskJockey]

I'll have an expresso to go with that. Pacifically a strong one.

Edit: forgot my current pet hate "would of". No. Just no.

[GG.]

I could care less about this thread.

[IanF]

I literally died reading this..

[Mito Man]

Maybe everyone will learn something new in this thread, ya know, 2 stones 1 bird.

[Jobbo]

Chris Harris keeps saying 'chomping at the bit' in the Collecting Cars podcast. It's 'champing'.

Lewis Goodall keeps getting well known idioms or metaphors slightly wrong on the News Agents too, but they still make sense so I'm annoyed at myself for being annoyed at him. Language does evolve, after all.

[mik]

Chris Harris keeps saying 'chomping at the bit' in the Collecting Cars podcast. It's 'champing'.

You have just reminded me that someone stated in a meeting the other day that they were on tenderhooks waiting for the outcome.

This kinda thing happens so often that it’s really just become power for the course.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Comprise (s)(d) of - one of my top hates along with

Less than instead of fewer than

Slither, rather than sliver.

And in our industry even - refuge collection. You what?

Or arctic lorry?

[Rich B]

Admit instead of omit.

[duncs500]

Chris Harris keeps saying 'chomping at the bit' in the Collecting Cars podcast. It's 'champing'.

I think we've been through that one on this (or maybe the old) forum before.

[Simon]

I could care less about this thread.

A LOT in the US. Films and TV too. If they just thought about what they were actually saying they'd realise how stupid it is.

[240PP]

I literally died reading this..

Two girls were arguing on TOWIE, one had broken a confidence and let out a secret about the other - “You’ve literally shat all over me”. Conjured up an image..

See also “OMG, like, literally!”. WHAT?

[Beany]

Chris Harris keeps saying 'chomping at the bit' in the Collecting Cars podcast. It's 'champing'.

Jobbo, yesterday:

[Jobbo]

Correct. I even sit with a badger most nights.

[GG.]

I could care less about this thread.

A LOT in the US. Films and TV too. If they just thought about what they were actually saying they'd realise how stupid it is.

This was excellent

To be honest the most annoying thing about Americans is not what they say but how they say it - by which I mean vocal frrryyyyyyyy.

[jamcg]

I’m terrible for getting sayings wrong

My pet hate is the local prolific pluralisation of the word you to “yous”

[nuttinnew]

[DaveE]

I could of posted my pet hate here too...

Another is people using a pluralisation for something singular

"The team are working on...." rather than than "The team is working on...."

And one I hate myself for sometimes falling into is "Can I get...." rather than "have"

[Jobbo]

‘Can I get’ seems to be an Americanism - so ubiquitous over there I didn’t feel wrong saying it myself. Better in the context of something else American, such as ‘Can I get the check’.

[Rich B]

I could of posted my pet hate here too...

Another is people using a pluralisation for something singular

"The team are working on...." rather than than "The team is working on...."

And one I hate myself for sometimes falling into is "Can I get...." rather than "have"

May I have...