What Phrases and Words Make You See Red?

[MugaB]

Wahs

Have a cry, ya sook

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Have a cry, ya sook

Ok

 

[MugaB]

Ok

Wah wah wah!!!

 

[MCMLXVI]

I hate the phrase Are you OK ?

No, I'm not if it's any of your business.

 

[marshall stalin]

Capitalism / Capitalist
The West
NATO Organisation of Criminal Associates
America/American/USA

 

[Port Stephens Magpie]

The Lounge room has been refurbished to suit the needs of the game and its guests can choose from two different types of activities to suit each individual

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

Stay Safe! FMD! WTF is that? That's rhetorical. I know where it came from and what it refers to and the next person who says it to my face might find themselves in an extremely unsafe situation.
If you're one of these people you are a parrot and a puppet.

 

[bazza]

I metaphorically explode when people use "literally" in the wrong context

 

[Willow]

I metaphorically explode when people use "literally" in the wrong context

"Literally" in the so-called 'wrong' context was used by Charles Dickens (he had literally feasted his eyes), Jane Austen (when we had been literally rocked in our bed), James Joyce (literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat), F Scott Fitzgerald (He literally glowed) and Mark Twain (Tom was literally rolling in wealth), to name a few.

Using "literally" this way was perfectly OK for centuries. Looks like it only changed relatively recently... presumably when a self appointed grammar cop decided otherwise, for everyone else.

Someone wrote about it, quite literally.

The Long History of the Figurative 'Literally'—and 8 Great Writers Who Used It

The word 'literally' has been used as an intensifier for at least three centuries—including by a number of famous authors.

www.mentalfloss.com

...the word literally has been used as a hyperbole or intensifier for at least three centuries, with its earliest figurative use dating back to 1769.

 

[MugaB]

I metaphorically explode when people use "literally" in the wrong context

Well "Apparently"

 

[Mojo]

“Why don’t you / they just …..”

 

[Sans Souci Saint]

“How good is….?”