Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Annoying buzzwords/phrases.

154 replies

WheresThatCatGoneNow · 01/08/2026 11:15

I keep hearing people say that they "reached out" to a another person or a company/ business/organisation etc.

Why don't they just say that they contacted them? Which is what they actually mean!

It really sets my teeth on edge.

Any thoughts?

OP posts:
Anonanonanonagain · Today 08:00

thenewaveragebear1983 · Today 06:52

I actually quite like ‘reached out’ - I use it at work when I mean “someone’s told me to contact you and I don’t know who you are or even what I’m asking but 🤷‍♀️ “

I hate “circle back”.

I despise picky bits. And even worse M&S picky bits. Like they are somehow better. Reminds me of scabs and flaky skin

I HATE normalise , it’s all over social media now “let’s normalise …..”

That is because it has been normalised....

Anonanonanonagain · Today 08:01

'How do you think I feel'? When you say anything to some people about your job/car/the heat/kids - always need to make themselves somehow more important and/or more of a victim.
See also 'Even I don't do/see/think that' - Even I? Cos you are the most important and people should look up to you?

This is not a phrase however upon hearing really annoying and pretentious things my mum a couple of years ago trying to sound important telling us how much her husband appreciates her because 'He sent to Germany for a book for me'. Eh, mother, he ordered it on amazon.de you fucking fake snob. I am not a fan of my mum as she is the type to use my aforementioned phrases.

Most 'blue sky thinking' office drivel annoys me especially when one colleague is always on about her swings and roundabouts....

Influencer shite like 'My heart is so full'. Actually no Tracey I have met you and your heart is as empty as your brain seems to be you are just using pics of your nieces and nephews to post selfies looking for admiration.
Also when I read 'making memories'. Are you though? What happens if you get dementia?

Space. This space is huge, you can do so much with this space etc. Eh it is a bedroom/kitchen/toilet just say the name of the room and stop calling everything a space.

Unalived.

seawitchandgarden2 · Today 08:20

Punching above our weight
Low hanging fruits
Circling back
We need to unpack this
Making memories
Catching feelings
Touch base
I I turned around and said
Lived experience
We are pregnant
Curated (used in random contexts)
Baby talk by adults: yummy, scrummy...

sammylady37 · Today 15:07

I don’t even know how to describe this, is it influencer talk, therapy babble or what, but ‘I owned my part in in’, ‘I named how I was feeling’, ‘I named the space I was in’, ‘I thanked him for sharing his thoughts on it’ …. infuriating! All those phrases were uttered to me recently by a friend who had ONE date with a guy and then decided not to see him again.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page