When you reach the front of a queue and the person attending to you says: "Sorry about your wait". If they look as if they can take a joke we say "Didn't think we had a weight problem..."
...and something I've really come to hate, thanks to someone in the office who probably means well but comes across as intrusive, is when people ask "How's Mum?" instead of "How's your Mum?"
I can just about bear it when spoken by a medical professional (but only just) who has a good reason for enquiring, but otherwise my initial reaction is "You're not my sister, so she's not your Mum".
“Not hardly”. Amazing how many folks who should know better use the double negative we were repeatedly warned not to use by our school teachers. This one makes my eardrums rattle. I did enjoy the way Blue Caterpillar used it in “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), and wonder how many moviegoers caught that.
I read quite a few articles by supposed journalists and writers who use the term 'threw some shade", and I just cannot stand it. It drives me crazy when street slang is used in the place of real words.
"If I told you, I'd have to kill you." and its variants. Amazing that a phrase over a hundred years old seems to have undergone a revival lately. I've noticed it (over)used on numerous cooking shows recently in the context of questions about recipes. Have people just (re)discovered it? Or does it just stand in stark contrast in my mind to "These phrases need to come back."?
