| Do you see what I did there?
| Nick Mailer | |
| Interweb
| Matthew | |
| Chrimble/Chrimbo
| Nick Mailer | |
| Mackee-Dees
| Nick Mailer | |
| Hols
| David G | |
| On Acid
| Adam Huffman | |
| Ablutions
| Adam Huffman | |
| Uni
| Robert Morgan | |
| The Web
| Robert Morgan | |
| Political correctness gone mad
| Adam Huffman | |
| anyways
| John W | |
| myself/yourself (except with reflexive verbs)
| Nick Mailer | |
| Fascist
| Adam Huffman | |
| Placky bag
| Nick Mailer | |
| For my sins
| Adam Huffman | |
| I'm lovin' it
| Steve Wilkinson | |
| What-EVER
| Nick Mailer | |
| Chattering Classes
| Victoria | |
| Detox
| Victoria | |
| spiritual
| Victoria | |
| Energy (not defined as capability to do work)
| Victoria | |
| Intolerance (as in 'wheat intolerance')
| Victoria | |
| Oh, my life
| Victoria | |
| Like (as used by American teenagers)
| Levine | |
| basically
| John W | |
| Natch
| Matthew | |
| Bzzzzt!
| Matthew | |
| Ta muchly
| Nick Mailer | |
| Ta da!
| Nick Mailer | |
| eeerm
| Victoria | |
| Veritable
| Adam Huffman | |
| prolly
| MHW | |
| He-llo?!
| Vaughan | |
| Happy bunny
| Vaughan | |
| commence to start
| MHW | |
| Hardy Har Har
| Mr Wilks | |
| is is
| Adam Huffman | |
| A propos of
| Vaughan | |
| Yers
| MHW | |
| Anyhoo
| MHW | |
| methinks
| Steve | |
| Edgy
| Adam Huffman | |
| Raft (As in "A raft of..."
| Victoria | |
| Management Bandwidth
| Victoria | |
| Verbal (when "oral" is meant)
| Adam | |
| Low-carb
| Lizifer | |
| ATM machine
| Lizifer | |
| Nuff said
| Adam Huffman | |
| 'People' as in 'sorry, people' or 'okay, people'
| Adam Huffman | |
| Buck House (for Buckingham Palace)
| Nick Mailer | |
| Wey hey! (or any variation thereon, like we-hey!)
| Nick Mailer | |
| Go figure
| Adam Huffman | |
| Tour de force (particularly in description of a film)
| Sarah | |
| Off of (I dare you to take this off of this list)
| Sarah | |
| Rocket science
| Adam Huffman | |
| I kid you not
| Adam Huffman | |
| singular (as in "the artist's work displays a singular vision")
| Sarah | |
| "Am i the only person in the world who uses their mobile for just phoning & sms?"
| Adam Huffman | |
| Narrative - when misused by the same people who misuse "edgy"
| Adam Huffman | |
| surreal (except in discussing the specific artistic movement)
| Nick Mailer | |
| going from strength to strength
| Sarah | |
| Literally - unless literally literally
| Nick Mailer | |
| Ask - cf. "a big ask"
| Adam Huffman | |
| cuppa
| Nick Mailer | |
| "organised religion" (the rejection of which you think excuses your brand of woowoo)
| Nick Mailer | |
| 'Heads up' as in 'Thanks for the ...'
| Vaughan | |
| "End of".
| Adam Huffman | |
| 'Take off line' when you mean 'Can't be bothered/unable to agree'
| Zoltan | |
| So squish.
| Graeme Payne | |
| Random (meaning "slightly uncharacteristic" or, increasingly, just "normal" as in "how random!" or "just a random group of people")
| Robert Morgan | |
| Can I get (as in when ordering a Frappuccino®)
| Robert Morgan | |
| Arf
| Steve Wilkinson | |
| stylee
| Biob | |
| An unholy union of...
| | |
| Fisking
| Wilko | |
| going forward
| Nick Mailer | |
| notion (as in "In my work I am looking at notions of..." or "I have been experimenting with the notion...") Though I think it's okay to use the term 'notions' if you're talking about ribbons and buttons).
| Sarah | |
| Rumours of [x]'s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
| Steve W | |
| Egregious abuse of one word sentences e.g. "Best. Thread. Ever."
| Adam Huffman | |
| "[We need to be] singing from the same hymn sheet."
| Steve W | |
| zero-sum game
| Adam Huffman | |
| Uproarious e.g. "Tittybangbang: the uproarious new female-led comedy show."
| Steve W | |
| 'turning a drama into a crisis'
| MHW | |
| 'ob' or 'obv'
| MHW | |
| Reality (e.g. "but if you're not the you from my reality, where's the me from your reality?!")
| Steve W | |
| Shurely [some mistake]
| Steve W | |
| some (e.g. "suffer some")
| Rodti | |
| Does exactly what it says on the tin (when not referring to Ronseal)
| Rodti | |
| "I don't *do* [adjective]"
| Kevin Sangeelee | |
| "Cool and groovy"
| Vix | |
| Columbian marching powder (unless you actually *want* to sound like Heat magazine or the 3am Girls?)
| Steve W | |
| Puh-leez
| Pope Gregory IX | |
| so when used as an intensifier
| Vicki | |
| Think (imperative, introducing a comparison "think Bowie with a splash of Led Zeppelin")
| N.G. | |
| to-die-for
| MHW | |
| *izz* (e.g. "fo' shizzle" and variants). "Drizzle" a possible exception.
| Rodti | |
| Eclectic - when used to describe a taste in music
| Tom Cordiner | |
| "Let's touch base"
| Damion Yates | |
| “The [one syllable of d-list celebrity's name]-STER” (e.g. The HammSTER, The HoffSTER).
| Sir Digby Chicken Caesar | |
| Fiesty
| Pat Bryant | |
| Devastated
| Pat Bryant | |
| Helicopter view
| Tom Cordiner | |
| RE: (when used in verbal communication: "I'd like to talk to you ree the numbers this week.")
| Steve W | |
| My bad
| Stephen Harker | |
| (sentence on own line between parentheses)
| Leonard Hatred | |
| Postcode Lottery
| Steve W | |
| Not fit for purpose
| Sir Digby Chicken Caesar | |
| Silly o'clock
| Tom Cordiner | |
| Comfort zone
| Tom Cordiner | |
| " ... it home" ("really drives it home/ramming it home/brings it home etc.")
| Tom Cordiner | |
| PCB Board
| Steve W | |
| LCD Display
| Steve W | |
| PIN Number
| Steve W | |
| Any and all Daphne and Celeste lyrics (either directly quoted or paraphrased)
| Rodti | |
| Too cool for school
| Tom Cordiner | |
| "Colour me [x]" (where [x] = adjective)
| Steve W | |
| "... already", as in "Oh you two, just get a room already."
| Rodti | |
| "I third it" (following "I second the motion")
| Rodti | |
| get a room
| A Teenage Girl | |
| X O'Clock (where X is not a member of the natural numbers such that 1 <= X <=12)
| Bob McCavill | |
| innit
| Honky McFly | |
| Wizard ("...and then had the wizard idea of...")
| Steve W | |
| Erm ... hello?!
| Tom Cordiner | |
| phat (unless from a founding member of the hip-hop movement)
| Rodti | |
| Hi Both (when addressing an email to two people)
| Tom Cordiner | |
| Now tell us what you *really* think (after one has done just that)
| Nicholas Mailer | |
| FUD
| Nicholas Mailer | |
| pre-order
| Xavier Morgan | |
| Chops (e.g. "directing chops," "acting chops")
| Steve W | |
| Note to self, ...
| Damion Yates | |
| Automagically
| Damion Yates | |
| Win, as in "that's made of pure liquid win."
| Martin Coxall | |
| Action (when used as a verb)
| Andrew G | |
| net net (e.g. the net net of this situation is..."
| Eztiger | |
| "I'm not being funny, but....."
| Eztiger | |
| To be honest
| Marquee Mark | |
| Zany!!! (used of humour - by people possessing no sense of humour)
| Marquee Mark | |
| could care less
| An American Idiot | |
| superbug
| BBC Science Coverage | |
| microblogging
| Just No | |
| Invariably (when "usually" is meant)
| SW | |
| Hard Working Families
| Lazy Politico Scum | |
| Up and down the country (as used, exclusively, by politicians)
| Richard Nabavi | |
| least worst
| Richard Nabavi | |
| *adjective*!? ...Me?!
| Baldrick | |
| At this moment in time (What's wrong with "now")
| A Pedant | |
| dialogue (particularly it refers to something inanimate 'the house was in a dialogue with the garden')
| b. | |
| medal (as a verb)
| LS | |
| impacted
| Simon | |
| Debate (as in "we need a national debate about this")
| David Cameron | |
| "Answers on a postcard to...."
| Rodti | |
| Credit Crunch
| Nick Mailer | |
| 'Current economic climate'
| A. Sheppard | |
| Doh!
| Summer | |
| Soi disant
| Nick Mailer | |
| workflow
| Nick Mailer | |
| root-and-branch
| Adam Huffman | |
| app (as in "I paid 5 quid for this cool iPhone app")
| Nick Mailer | |
| At the end of the day
| Steve W | |
| "In order to..." ("to" will do just fine, thanks)
| Steve W | |
| business end
| Steve W | |
| Place (as in "my head's not in a good place at the moment").
| Nick Mailer | |
| x percent, where x > 100 or < 0 except in proper mathematics
| Nick Mailer | |
| 'teh'
| The Voice of Reason | |
| Rich (as in "a rich set of features")
| Nick Mailer | |
| "Go...." rather than "Go and...", with the possible exception of "Go fuck yourself".
| Rodti | |
| The cloud (in wankers' computing terminology)
| Nick Mailer | |
| Is it just me or...
| Adam Englebright | |
| amirite (as in "women, eh, amirite?")
| Steve W | |
| In the national interest
| Michael Gove | |
| Curated Computing
| Nick Mailer | |
| Will you be about? (Well, about to what? As in 'are you going to be around [...]?')
| Sophs | |
| Hiya
| Sophs | |
| That's that
| Sophs | |
| That's weirding me out
| Damion Yates | |
| meet-cute
| Steve W | |
| Call to action
| Nick Mailer | |
| Pot, Kettle
| Tom Harris MP | |
| Allow it
| Alibaba | |
| "Deficit Denier"
| Ed Balls MP | |
| ecosystem ("There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them.")
| Steve Belmer | |
| disrupt ("There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them.")
| Elop | |
| (count ‘em!)
| Merritas | |
| How's 'it' going? ---> what is 'it'?
| Victoria M | |
| to 'bang' something out - as in an email, a paper or an article
| Victoria M | |
| Gangbusters ("This film will play like gangbusters")
| Steve W | |
| A black hole in the budget
| George Coombs | |
| Grok
| Foy | |
| gnarly
| Steve W | |
| [x], much?
| | |
| lurve
| | |
| agree to disagree
| | |
| Giftmas
| | |
| I loves me some [x]
| | |
| oh my heck
| | |
| Cost ladder
| Nick Mailer | |
| Reach out ("I'll reach out to my sales engineer (sic) and let you know"
| TSC | |
| banter
| Unilad | |
| the 'rents (referring to parents)
| | |
| shoutout
| | |
| it is what it is
| | |
| put on your big girl panties
| | |
| addressing the reader as though you know they're responding with disbelief. "yes, you read that correctly."
| | |
| preggers
| | |
| ["stop that" - Ed.]
| | |
| Comedy stylings
| | |
| brightest and best
| | |
| Maker (as in, "maker culture")
| Yaweh | |
| Check your privilege
| Nick Mailer | |
| Wow. Just wow. &c.
| Nick Mailer | |
| Go home, X - you are drunk.
| Nick Mailer | |
| "Learning", as in "The learning I've taken away from this is..."
| Adam Huffman | |
| "X, anyone?" - the very acme of lazy, ersatz conversational journalism
| Adam Huffman | |
| Give me a buzz/bell/shout
| Priyanka | |
| open for business
| Adam Huffman | |
| Ersatz
| Tom Cordiner | |
| Our children and our children's children
| Tom Cordiner | |
| Ramp up
| Tom Cordiner | |
| In no way, shape or form
| Scott | |
| Choccy biccy
| Dan Hodges | |
| X (location), I am in you
| Ed Pemberton | |
| We are where we are
| Andrew | |
| bad law (unless said by a legal scholar who actually knows what he/she is talking about)
| Ian | |
| "I'm not being funny, but..." (proceeds to make trite, possibly off colour observation)
| Ed Pemberton | |
| Meh
| Peter S | |
| Zero, zip, nada, zilch (and its variants)
| Peter S | |
| "How very dare you" (re-added for historical reasons)
| Adam Huffman | |
| Skillset
| Tom Cordiner | |