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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    Monthly magazines that describe things as 'on trend'.
    Southampton 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants said:
    Monthly magazines that describe things as 'on trend'.
    or "on point"
    Devon.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    There is some inflationary pressure affecting clichés. Guesses, these days, are second ones while efforts are quadrupled, or re-doubled to use the modern phrase.


    Rutland, England
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    'Rocked up' instead of arrived or turned up. Sort of evokes an image of some long-haired denim-clad individual dancing in whilst playing air guitar  :/
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • OHNOHN Posts: 1
    'Miscommunication'

    When ministers, and politicians generally, refuse to take responsibility for their lies.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I have just read a piece on the BBC website from their economics editor Faisal Islam ...
      “in and of itself”

    What does ‘and of’ add to the meaning? Nothing I’d say marking it out as another irritating fad. 

    Unrelated, from where has “I’ve got your back” suddenly sprung up? America, no doubt, where it should have stayed.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    "I’ve got your back"
    Irritating In and of itself.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    " Boris Johnson promises "
    Another irritating BBC quote.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    "Unprecedented"
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Disinvited. Is that a word? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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