Phrases that make you cringe

[BitSilly]

'Creative juices' is awful.

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Another annoyance - "breaks silence". Always in tabloid headlines.

"Stop press! Z list celebrity breaks silence on "feud" with other z list celebrity"

Gives me the ick

Get your ducks in a row

Fur babies/DDog/DCat

Use your words

Drop/ dropped in relation to new collections being released in shops, i.e. the spring collection has just dropped.

Reaching out.
Thinking outside of the box.
Fur babies.
Making memories.
No offence…
Touch base
Picky bits
We’re pregnant
Little man/ lady

Yes! Or 'Opens Up' No - they're just talking about something...

We use "piece of work" as short-hand for "nasty piece of work" - often used by my nan back in the day (there's another one!) and immediately followed up by "She's no better than she ought to be" (God knows what this meant! 😂 )

A red lip. A black trouser. A brown boot.

"... in any way, shape or form." 🙄

It’s full of chemicals

Next level, particularly when used by TV chefs and advertising
Next level potatoes
Next level Cheese Sandwich
Seems like everything is next bloody level.

Stay safe
Squeeze the orange (work)
Sharpen the pencil (work)
Thanks for reaching out (work - grim)
Picky bits
Enjoy your meal (don't know why -think it is the word meal)
Not a phrase but anyone who puts an emoji in a work email. NOT okay.

It's absolutely a thing in the West Country too - I can't hear it in anything other than a Bristol accent!

It is what it is.

Making memories.

Nom nom.

No offence intended …….

Oh god,so many! 'Reaching out'. 'Moving forward'. 'Blue sky thinking' (what the hell does that even mean?!). 'Thinking outside the box'. Going on any sort of journey, particularly when it's to do with weight loss. Other things that annoy the shit out of me is when someone keeps saying 'yer know' at the end of every sentence,or 'like',or 'yeah,right'. There's a caller on LBC who phones in regularly and I have to switch the radio off while he's on because EVERY single sentence he utters ends with 'yeah,right'. Drives me mad.

When someone is asked what it's like to win the lottery/ run a marathon/ etc, and they say " it means the world to me ".
Well yes, but what exactly does this mean? I'm still none the wiser.

we fell pregnant.

No you didn't fall, you fucked. And both of you didn't get pregnant, just the woman did.

Unless of course the "we" is a lesbian couple who used the same turkey baster. But still no falling was involved.

All of the above including:
these ones, these ones......drives us nuts
..like...at the beginning and interjected into every sentence
the boy/girl played brilliant (ly) is shouted out in unison here.

Many phrases could become part of the changing /evolutionary nature of language. I overheard part of an A level English lesson where text speak was being discussed!

'Im loving that for you'.
Rude. Passive aggressive. Said to me by an American shop assistant in SpaceNK in Edinburgh last year. If she'd said "Just crawl away and die you tedious old woman" it would have meant the same thing

In my last job there was a (junior) guy who kept coming to meetings and offering his (quite unimpressive) ideas and saying very confidently 'we need to professionalise and commercialise this concept!'. I could barely cope with it after several months of the same phrase accompanied by rubbish ideas 😬

"They feasted on [insert favourite greasy meat here] washed down with...

It makes me feel sick.

"Lush" makes me queasy.

More-ish."Oooo that's really more-ish". Barf

To call someone out

Going forward

Reaching out

Making memories

Loved ones

Passed / passed away / someone's passing

Oh and ....
walk the walk and talk the talk. (it's never made sense)
it gave me the ick (it's not even a word is it?)

and all the inbred arses on the local social media site who blame every problem in town on the the thieving gypsies and travelers and all those raping illegal immigrants.

and all the idiots who claim to be autistic whenever they are shown to be socially inept/rude/sexist - Oh sorry (but not really) but I'm on the spectrum.