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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 207236" data-attributes="member: 1246">Phrases That Really Bug Us................&nbsp;&quot;It&#039;s not rocket science&quot;. Rocketry is engineering, not a science. The phrase &quot;up close and personal&quot; was irritating to start with and has become hackneyed and meaningless e.g. I went on a river trip and was thrilled to get up close and personal with a crocodile I can&#039;t stand &quot;to die for&quot;. Nothing&#039;s that good and even if it was, you&#039;d be dead and wouldn&#039;t be able to enjoy whatever it was. &quot;Pushing the envelope&quot; always conjures up for me some ridiculous scene in a mailing room or post office. Why, when someone famous dies, do tributes always &quot;pour&quot; in? Also, when a plane crashes in the sea, the media is quick to remind us that the waters are always &quot;shark-infested&quot;.&nbsp; Only $999.99&quot;This door is alarmed&quot;. Is it really frightened? The infuriating rising inflections at the end of sentences that make everything sound like a question?&nbsp; I hate being addressed as &quot;hallo there&quot;. My name is not &quot;there&quot;. And why have all the cookery books and frying pans disappeared? What is a &quot;cook&quot; book and a &quot;fry&quot; pan?&nbsp; When the waitress plonks the plate in front of you and says, &quot;there you go&quot;. Where do I go? Where&#039;s there? &quot;It will be in the last place you look&quot;. Well of course I&#039;m not going to continue to look for it when I have found it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 207236, member: 1246"] Phrases That Really Bug Us................ "It's not rocket science". Rocketry is engineering, not a science. The phrase "up close and personal" was irritating to start with and has become hackneyed and meaningless e.g. I went on a river trip and was thrilled to get up close and personal with a crocodile I can't stand "to die for". Nothing's that good and even if it was, you'd be dead and wouldn't be able to enjoy whatever it was. "Pushing the envelope" always conjures up for me some ridiculous scene in a mailing room or post office. Why, when someone famous dies, do tributes always "pour" in? Also, when a plane crashes in the sea, the media is quick to remind us that the waters are always "shark-infested". Only $999.99 "This door is alarmed". Is it really frightened? The infuriating rising inflections at the end of sentences that make everything sound like a question? I hate being addressed as "hallo there". My name is not "there". And why have all the cookery books and frying pans disappeared? What is a "cook" book and a "fry" pan? When the waitress plonks the plate in front of you and says, "there you go". Where do I go? Where's there? "It will be in the last place you look". Well of course I'm not going to continue to look for it when I have found it. [/QUOTE]

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