Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

it can also mean to stay a bar until closing time!

stay AT a bar

Ah OK, I’ve never heard anyone say pop out to mean pop in. You’re sure you didn’t just hear it to mean that from context when actually they meant pop out as in leave their home (on the way to the event?)

I popped out my flat to pop into the party

“I’ve got to pop out to the shops”.

This is my favourite. Pop in is used a lot too.

"Knock up" and "ring up" are British idioms, not USian ones

A lot of those prepositions in phrasal verbs seem to indicate a completed action - “ate” vs “ate up”, “closed” vs “closed out”.

"Dust up" is a good one

"Knocked up" has several meanings in British English, at least one of which is the same as the American one?

"ate up" as a phrasal verb has other connotations beyond literal eating though, such as "uncritically/enthusiastically believe something"

I literally asked my student who used the term “pop out” what she meant and then confirmed w the rest of the class that this is a commonly understood usage. I’ve got a MA in Lx and 15+ years of teaching English language learners, please give me one (1) benefit of doubt for knowing what I am talking about in these fields?

I would take that usage of 'pop out' to mean like 'jump out'. I'm imagining a pop-up book. Maybe?

isn’t “pop” the verb and “in” the direction you’re popping tho? As in, not a phrasal verb?

Sorry, LL.

Pop (for My Love)

"Knock up" and "ring up" are British idioms, not USian ones

In the US you "ring up" a customer's purchases at the cash register. (Which is likely a computer terminal which does not make a ringing noise. Antique phrasing lingering into the present.)

in american football defensive coordinators 'dial up a blitz' for no earthly reason at all, but that's the hackneyed cliche

I ate up my popover after popping in to the pop-up

I popped the question to the poptimist

Overuse of 'aesthetic' as synonymous with 'style'

No that’s good

the british expression "all sorts"

i don't know why, but i hate it so much, hate it hate it hate it hate it

dolly mixture is better

I like it when it describes a bad of licorice

*bag

well sure that’s a different pack of sweets altogether

"we can take that one away and have a look at it"

"quick wins"

How dyou feel abt "one and done"

hmm what's the context

i think i've only heard it referring to e.g. a basketball playoff. 'oh the sixers? they're going to be one and done'

"guys theres fifteen tickets there i want someone to review and identify the quick wins and any oneandones we can bat away"

Have heard "one and done" a lot this year re the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Yeah broadly speaking it captures the concept

ok in this context i definitely hate it

Yes thats right

I got the J&J and used that phrase a few times, I am guilty of this

Almost started an ILM thread about this, but then wasn’t sure how many examples there were:

Names of bands shortened by fans, or at least the ones where an s is added. The Chemicals, The Foos

Somehow I hear them all in a Steve Lamacq voice. I guess The Manics is the classic one, though not as annoying as the previous two.

The rollings

I hate Macca for Paul McCartney too.

It's probably fine in a Scouse accent though tbf.

Curiously, it doesn’t seem to follow that the longer band names are the most subjected to this. No one called the Incredible String Band “the Incredibles” or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “the Claps”, afaik

The Replacements became The Mats (from placemats)

What about when big corps start calling themselves the abbreviated usage? FedEx being the big one, KFC another

“Yeah Yeah Yeahs” more catchy anyway

xps

Yeah

we called them Crap Your Pants for short

No one called the Incredible String Band “the Incredibles”

I think they did, you know.

I mean the Incredible String Band