Phrases/sayings that drive me mad!

"Without a word of a lie " .....

Suck it and see

Very unique
Extremely minute and other imponderables along the same lines
Passed instead of died
'Like' every second word
Can I get...(no, you may not)
Fab-u-loss! (Yes, I know)
"So I said...and he said '....' So I said" etc.
Plus all of the above
And finally we come to ...

"The proof is in the pudding" and the recent habit of writing "Should of" instead of "Should have".

Whatever
Well actually
As a matter of fact

I hate
I'm just saying
and the worst one
I call a spade a spade
both seem to mean they are right and your wrong or just another way of being rude.

Thanks ladies, I laughed out loud reading your posts

Sorry, Katek, with a capital K ?

Oh and talking of home renovation programmes katek, what about when they say “oh this is a lovely space”. It’s a room, for heaven’s sake, not a ‘space’ ?

Can I add

Putting my stamp on it
Light flooding in
(Home renovation programmes are full of these!)
Moving forward
For free
So fun

I now find myself - sounding very much like my father - shouting at the tv.

Singing from the same hymn sheet.

So......

Crashing out of Europe.

Myself used incorrectly to sound posh.

In fact I loathe so many of the cliches listed above that I must be getting old and grumpy.

Sckedule instead of Schedule, unless of course you are from the USA.

People who I would of or I could of . My English teacher will be turning in her grave. She would have asked them to conjugate the verb that included of!

When someone says 'at the end of the day'.... my husband says quickly... "it's midnight". !!

Haitch
Fed up of (instead of with)
My heart goes out to you

and many more already mentioned!

"yer know what I mean"

The worst ones for me as others have said
At the end of the day
Lessons will be learned
My hubby

I'm just saying ....

It's a given

Popping out. (Just go, for heaven's sake. No need for explosive sounds)

Cuppa

"And he goes...." instead of "he said"

I agree with all of those, apart from "must have"....(I know some people say "must OF" and that irritates me beyond belief)

"He/she smashed it"
"whatever...."
He/she is on a "journey"
"don't worry, he's very friendly" just as the flamin dog has a go at mine who went up to said dog wagging his tail

Oh I've just thought of one.
Its when people are telling you something and say things like "Honestly, you can ask my brother..."when you have never even met their brother and he lives in Timbuktu.

"Don't get me started on..." I want to say, "well I don't have to because you've already started on it yourself"

"If it was me..." right along with "Oh, you're not like me!"
I hear those two ALL the time, every day.

Have a nice day. (No thank you, I have other plans)

'What have you been doing today?' at the checkout. What's wrong with 'How are you?' which is much easier to answer and feels less intrusive.

'The overnight period' on weather forecasts.

Plus most of the above. Grumpy old women unite!

The often used ‘Literally’