Learn English – the phrase for ‘people always giving free advice’

phrase-request

There are always these people who are giving their opinion and ideas about anything just to show how intelligent they are, even if they are not asked. But the advice is either absurd or too impractical and is of no use.

Is there a word or phrase for free advice?

Best Answer

A person who habitually gives unsolicited advice is often called a (or Mister) Know-it-all (or Know-all). It's often understood that such a person's advice is either or both unwanted and inappropriate/unusable.

I don't think there's any particularly common expression for the advice/opinion beyond obvious forms involving preceding one of those words with unsolicited, unwanted, etc.

An extremely common (and quite rude) response to being on the receiving end is...

"When I want your advice I'll ask for it!"

...for which the typical British understated version is...

"I'll bear that in mind."

(which isn't always said dismissively/sarcastically, obviously).

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