Phrases that get up your nose?

Fun Times said:
When they have 2000 tonnes up thir chuff?! Sorry, but this just made me laugh the most out of all the replies. It just sounds so wrong in every way that I almost feel sorry for the train! :D
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:D

Actually, I do have one that I don't think I've seen on here, although I would be very surprised if it hasn't been mentioned already...
Coblet.
Just makes me go grrrr for some reason.
 
Some funny ones!

someone at work likes to use the phrase "Needs pulled together" especially when watching me ride/ work the 3 year olds. Makes me cringe but unfortunately they always get their way :(
 
Cowpony said:
My horse really needs to do more. It`s a horse. It doesn't care if it's in a field all day eating its head off.
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In my experience my four at least like doing something and have been known to try and sneak out of the field gate, recently my rider managed to let the three that weren't being ridden, out onto a road (luckily quiet) and the one wearing a headcollar and lead rope also pulled away from her and followed his friends, it took my rider an hour to get them back in the field, she said my 'quirky' lad charged through the electric fencing (has been known to) and the others followed. My 20yr old mare also visibly perks up when she is tacked up
 
Has been stood in field due to lack of time
Not enough time to do him justice

Translates: I bought too many and wasn't prepared to put in the work

Jumps for fun

Translates: I'm sure it went over a jump once with a previous owner

Not novice ride

Translates: bucks
 
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Now these are completely just they way I read things ( I guess its a punctuation thing!) But I do hate reading -

Cob x Gelding

Arab x Mare

etc

Cob Crossed with a gelding, eh? What type of mare was your arab crossed with??? :p

So say - Cob X, 7 year old, gelding - is just must more pleasing ;)
 
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Selling as overstocked or selling as need the stable for new horse...

Or the incredibly old, ill and utterly worn out riding school horse/pony that is now being sold on for buttons to whoever will take it instead of retired or PTS. Generally described as "much loved"...

:(
 
I'm another who detests "stunning". Actually makes me cringe and if I was in the market for another horse, I'd actively avoid an ad containing that word.

Maybe a little extreme, but that's how much it grinds my gears!
 
mytwofriends said:
I'm another who detests "stunning". Actually makes me cringe and if I was in the market for another horse, I'd actively avoid an ad containing that word.

Maybe a little extreme, but that's how much it grinds my gears!
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Well one person's definition of stunning may be poles apart from another person's.

I quite agree, I'm quite capable of making up my own mind up when I see the horse as to whether it was 'stunning' or not!
 
shadowboy said:
I hate "moves for fun" surely most horses move to eat, drink, have a roll etc etc
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If I didn't know any better (which I don't), I would read "moves for fun" as an odd way of saying the horse likes playing around in the field, and my reaction would be "Er, okay... so what's strange about that?".

What is it supposed to mean??
 
Not a phrase as such, but it really bugs me when people use their horse's name as the title in adverts, especially in the little thumbnails that appear on the H&H home page. If it's a fantastically well-known horse then fair enough, but if it isn't surely there are more important things to put in your heading that will help people choose what to click through to!
 
mytwofriends said:
I'm another who detests "stunning". Actually makes me cringe and if I was in the market for another horse, I'd actively avoid an ad containing that word.

Maybe a little extreme, but that's how much it grinds my gears!
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Cortez said:
"Stunning", especially when accompanied by a photograph of some dear thing that only its mother could love.
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It could be stunning! you are stunned when you see it doesn't necessarily mean it is beautiful ;)

Just like - a real head turner - and stunning could go either way ;)
 
Hunting sound. What is that supposed to mean?

From one livery - 'she took a jump and the horse throw her'. Where did she take the jump, out to lunch maybe? I then had visions of a horse picking up its rider and throwing her across the school!
 
fburton said:
If I didn't know any better (which I don't), I would read "moves for fun" as an odd way of saying the horse likes playing around in the field, and my reaction would be "Er, okay... so what's strange about that?".

What is it supposed to mean??
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I think its supposed to mean the horse has such a nice/big/expressive movement it moves in a desirable way without any effort :)
 
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