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Who Thinks These Up?

(56 Posts)
merlotgran Sun 20-Oct-13 12:34:28

Maybe this should be in Pedants' Corner but we tend to become familiar with daft new phrases and expressions thanks to radio and TV. Jamie Oliver can hold his hand up for many of them.

I've just heard DH remark, scornfully, 'That's NOT a Bad Boy, moron, It's a CUCUMBER.'

Not so long ago Jamie Oliver was referring to MR. Carrot and MR. Potato....Oh dear. hmm

Nobody does this in real life.....Do they?

merlotgran Wed 23-Oct-13 22:39:45

It does what it says on the tin. hmm

Flowerofthewest Wed 23-Oct-13 22:39:20

24/7!!!!!!

petallus Wed 23-Oct-13 22:34:15

He was incandescent (usually said about Prince Charles)

merlotgran Wed 23-Oct-13 22:30:14

You could topple off a balcony looking at the view and you could have a heart attack eating too much pud. hmm

Be careful what you wish for. grin

janeainsworth Wed 23-Oct-13 22:19:56

A view (or a pudding) to die for......... as if.
sad

Marelli Wed 23-Oct-13 21:28:19

Hit the ground running

Push the envelope

Wake up and smell the coffee

Flag it up.......

......boring, boring, boring!!

Deedaa Wed 23-Oct-13 21:12:33

Nearly forgot the worst one!

Lessons will be learned.

No they won't and we all know it!!!

merlotgran Wed 23-Oct-13 10:50:46

Grannyknot, I read your post too quickly and thought, What's wrong with being a shopfitter? grin

merlotgran Wed 23-Oct-13 10:49:39

Right from the Get Go.......Eh????? hmm

KatyK Wed 23-Oct-13 09:53:15

There was a programme the other night called something like 'Inside A Nightclub Toilet !!

Grannyknot Wed 23-Oct-13 08:40:55

I have to put up with this sort of nonsense (see link below) all day at work, thankfully I now know (having read the article) what a matrix is (I still shudder at the memory of the awful green screen movie) www.theguardian.com/money/2013/oct/22/a-z-modern-office-jargon?CMP=twt_gu

I also wondered the other night, flicking through the TV channels, whoever thought it a good idea to broadcast a programme called "Shoplifter and Proud" (I didn't watch it).

Iam64 Wed 23-Oct-13 07:41:16

'pick it up and run with it' - especially when used when discussing complex situations that need a plan

Flowerofthewest Tue 22-Oct-13 23:30:11

Oh the Devastated word is certainly overused - 'She lost her purse, she was devastated' NO NO NO you lose a member of your family you are devastated, you find out you have cancer or your husband has a heart attack you are devastated!!!! thlangry

Notso Tue 22-Oct-13 23:21:54

After a terrible event, friends & family saying they're 'in bits'.

Flowerofthewest Tue 22-Oct-13 23:11:13

No Brainer

Not rocket science

'basically'

Deedaa Tue 22-Oct-13 22:07:02

"Gutted" oh, if only some of them could be!

Stansgran Tue 22-Oct-13 21:21:26

Devastated.

Deedaa Tue 22-Oct-13 20:22:00

"Hard working families" because they are apparently the only families who matter.

glammanana Tue 22-Oct-13 18:30:08

"Are we all on the same page" ?

merlotgran Tue 22-Oct-13 17:55:59

Spits and spots of rain.....We're not children hmm

And grass frost....Whatever happened to ground frost?

MamaCaz Tue 22-Oct-13 17:51:05

Weather presenters saying that winds are going to ease up, meaning that they are going to get stronger!

annodomini Tue 22-Oct-13 17:38:59

And those footballing clichés: sick as a parrot; and over the moon. And why do those making a big effort always have to dig deep? One of my favourites was when an athletics commentator at (I think) the Montreal Olympics, stated that high jumpers were achieving 'greater height in depth.

MamaCaz Tue 22-Oct-13 17:14:55

"I'll be (literally) gutted if I don't get through to the next round", as said by almost every contestant on the numerous TV talent / cooking shows.

rockgran Tue 22-Oct-13 17:12:39

blue sky thinking - what is that?

Lona Tue 22-Oct-13 09:35:26

Let's wrap this up!