More Word Play - Infuriating Phrases A-Go-Go

The Daily Telegraph newspaper challenged its readers to come up with a short text of no more than 150 words containing as many infuriating phrases as possible.

The prize was a copy of the book She Literally Exploded: The Daily Telegraph Infuriating Phrasebook by Christopher Howse and Richard Preston.

Here's how the publisher describes the book:
Drawing on written and spoken insults to the intelligence from television, radio and the press, this A-Z lexicon covers politicians' cliches, business jargon; shop assistants' rudenesses; public-service padding; menu madness; and idiotic innovations.

To see the entries, click here. Nick Godfrey's was my favourite entry.

My personal pet-hate infuriating phrase; courtesy of North America; is:

'Wotzup'

... grrrrrr...

My personal pet-love infuriating phrase comes from my brother whenever he doesn't want to commit to something but doesn't want to say no either is:

'Could be good, see how it goes'.

Yes, I said 'pet-hate' etc self-consciously ironically!!