Phrases that make you cringe

[BitSilly]

'Creative juices' is awful.

‘Pick your brains’ literally makes me fee queasy

"Wouldn't the world be dull if we all thought the same / liked the same things?"

a) this is one of the dullest things a person can say, and is only ever wheeled out as a caveat to "that dress is fucking dreadful and you have no taste"

b) no, it would be great if everyone thought like me, I wouldn't be constantly filled with rage.

It's to get past content moderation on social media platforms. Suicide is contagious - talking about it can inspire it - and social media platforms can become unhealthy places where suicidal thoughts become suicidal actions just by talking about them, when most people's suicidal thoughts remain just that.

Rather than reviewing every piece of content featuring the word suicide manually to understand the context and whether it's likely to cause someone to self-harm, many platforms - like TikTok - just ban the word. See also, grape for rape.

I need to loose weight
No you don't , it's lose

I brought new clothes
No you didn't, it's bought

Dh’s old aunt used to refer to her bridge partners as ‘the girls’. They were all 80+. 😂

Not a phrase but ‘hack’

Has died down now but for months video after video about ‘life hacks’ for simple things that people have been doing for years!!

When people post on social media on their birthday saying "onto the next chapter" or "chapter 30" etc

‘Can I just pick your brains?’

The mental image is horrific.

Give my head a wobble - yuck

'Love you to the moon and back ' even writing it gives me the shudders. 🤢

Good Lord!

May I also throw in a few words?

Toxic
privileged
Entitled
Gaslit
Little One or LO ( puke)

Works night out
Work colleague
On the weekend
At yours ( meaning your house)
Can I get.
She was sat

Had a friend that always used this phrase, sometimes several times in one anecdote. My mind's eye had someone spinning round and round when talking.

Get a lot of it in South London too. An electrician I know seems to have a large family of constantly-revolving people.

Noone.

Where has that come from?
Since when is ‘no one’ one word?

'wear a white T, with a black trouser, a red lip and a smokey eye' .......
I'll give you a black eye in a minute.

'To die for'
'Infra dig'
'Back in the day'

And when someone pronouces 'news' as 'noos'

Really common in SE London, I remember it from when I lived there 20 years ago.

‘We fell pregnant” I just imagine the female tripped up and her knickers accidentally dropped down. The male also tripped and his trousers dropped round his ankles, he then landed in top of her and hey presto !

Not a phrase, but ‘hygge’, which no doubt we’ll be seeing again come the autumn.

IMO an irritating but very clever marketing ploy intended to make people think they’ve got to go out and buy even more throws, cushions and candles, etc.
It’s actually pronounced ‘hue-ga’, and when I investigated etymologically (I’m a nerd like that) I found that it’s related via IIRC Old Norse, to our ‘hug’.

I detest 'Be kind'. I don't know if it's because it's overused or that it's used at the wrong time. For some reason it really pisses me off.

Back in the day.

I don't mean to offend you but.....

You do you

It made sense in an E E Cummings poem, but I don't think it will ever make sense anywhere else.

Corporate office jargon.
I try not to use it but it can be difficult to rephrase things.

Ta ta for now
Tutty bye byes
Or even the use of ta for thanks