Phrases that make you cringe

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'Creative juices' is awful.

birthed, birthing ... growing a baby

"I’m not being funny but … (you’re going to be rude let’s face it)". I actually use this one occasionally, but not to be rude - more to ask a question or propose an alternative viewpoint when someone's not considering all possibilities, so I would use it by saying "I'm not being funny, but have you considered ...?"

"Did you find everything you needed today?" Equally, the phone variation of this when you've hung on for bloody ages to a "help"line, spoken to them at length about the issue, they finally resolve it and then they say "Is there anything else I can help you with?" Why? How many ways do they think their organisation might have buggered up my life this week?! 😂

Oh FFS, yes! My head-teacher is constantly saying 'There's a piece of work in the pipeline regarding.../ there's a piece of work to be done around...". Where is it from?!!!! I thought it was because we're in Scotland & he's Northern English, but then I realised it's just arse-hole management speak.

I hate that shit. If he spells practise incorrectly one more time I'll lose my shit.

Lazy clickbait headlines that tell you how many words were in a sentence someone said instead of what they said. “King Charles’ four word response to…”

Not just northern. West Country too. Amazing with all that turning round they don’t all screw themselves into the ground.

I was sat there
We’re sat here

No, you aren’t.

It made my teeth itch/boils my piss/who pissed in your cornflakes?

When people post a comment then finish it with the word No? in a questioning way. So patronising.

Sleeps, as in 'Only two more sleeps till your birthday'

Oh this. Makes me want to vom. It’s so twee!

As written by the daily mail along with
Showcasing her pins
Flaunting her assets
A curvy display
🤮🤮🤮

Urgh I really hate this too.

'incandescent with rage..' Piss off with that pompous shite.

A bold/bright/dark lip

Oh, and “famous woman x puts on a busty/leggy display” - STFU daily mail

Someone in my extended family used to say that, but it was always used to be unapologetic about something spiteful she'd just said. In other words, she was going to speak her mind regardless of who she hurt or offended and people just had to accept it because that's the way she was. Unsurprisingly, she alienated every friend she'd ever had. 😥

‘I’m obsessed’ anything that someone vaguely likes
Dog Mum/Mom - fuck off.
Aks instead of ask.

Middle for diddle.

They say that on The Chase when they don't know the answer, and just pick the middle answer. WTF does it even mean? 😆 Middle for diddle FFS! Doesn't even make sense!

‘Making love’ is gross.

Fact! 😉

Especially journey! "Menopause journey", "mental health journey" etc etc

These phrases are patronizing. I don't think people were going round using this kind of language to talk about their health issues. Rather, someone somewhere has decided that such phrases SHOULD be used, as part of official parlance. (I can't imagine why.)

How I talk about my menopause or about my mental health is up to me.

Many of these like "you got this" are chat gpt favourites
i couldn't be friends with someone who said "picky bits"

I had an old boss who became boss very quickly after well not being anyone really. He immediately started to adopt every business phrase in the book, such as 'trimming the fat off the business', 'deep dive' and 'work smarter not harder'. This guy had been a total creep and perv for years but now he was manager, hearing these words out of his mouth was just nauseating in a way his perviness wasn't.

That pisses me right off too. People saying a 'bottle of bubbles.' Or a 'bottle of fizz.'

Just say wine or champagne you numpty!

Making memories

The Daily Mail vernacular for describing what celebrities are wearing in a photo. It's extra annoying because we can see for ourselves that (insert celeb name)

*Dazzled in...
*Paired (clothing item) with (another clothing item)
*Stuns in....
*Wows in....
*Striking
*Plunging neckline
*A leggy display

All this while 'running errands' arrrgh 😡

I told the Daily Mail that they really got their money’s worth from ‘flaunting’.