Phrases that make you cringe

[BitSilly]

'Creative juices' is awful.

I am loving ....whatever. What's the 'am' doing there. Didn't spell check previous post. It should rean these ones.....those ones.

People who should know better say FRee instead of THRee.

'Let's open the opportunity pipeline'. Very popular at my husband's old employer.

Ah ok, I didn't realise that.

Though surely the content moderation will just move on to including "unalive".

#thisone
Making memories
Couples goals
Six of one half a dozen of the other

‘See what I did there’ after saying an unfunny pun. Also using the word’rank’ to describe food they don’t like. It sounds so rough to me

Nom nom, or nom (obviously)

"Voracious reader" - if you're THAT voracious, you can find an alternative to this hackneyed triteness.

I say this but mean later as in next day, week, year or whenever we are next in same place. Cashiers mean next time they are serving you. If they think about it at all.

Making it my own/you made it your own
nom nom or yum yum/ yummy
can we park that for now

Or as the "slag" would pronounce it: Portsmuff!

Probably, I got it straight away. In reality people very rarely turn around and say anything. 😂

‘Reach out’

‘moist’ - is a word not a phrase, but the hatred is strong.

‘Im sorry you feel that way’

All the corporate jargon:

• She reports into (so and so - manager)
• Onboarding
• Cascading
• Calibrating (KPIs)
• Agile
• Disrupting
• Future-proofing
• Pivot
• Moving forward

"walk the walk and talk the talk" = do what you should and mean what you say.

One more sleep to x
I'm not being funny but...
Fur baby
Rainbow bridge
Snowflake
Woke

’must-have’ item - more often than not a £975 handbag that some vacuous fashion journalist deems essential.

Obsessed and insane.
"I'm obsessed with this sandwich "
"That dinner was insane!"
(Obviously those words aren't just used in food, that was just an example 🤣)

My bad

Oh YES

And:

'Blue skies thinking'

'Thinking outside the box' (so overused that it's in a box)

'Delivering' just about everything, and worse, 'deliverables'

'Incentivize'

Food noise
Can I have a handhold
You can't pour from an empty cup
Furbabies
Get in my belly
Our little family
A cheeky takeaway
HTH
Holibobs
Love and Light
Eggy Bread
Doing the deed
Back door action
Chesticles
Slacks
Hot Girl Summer

A guy on the train just said "Sweet" "Bangin'" and "Cushty" all in one sentence. I feel like I inadvertently walked into the set of Only Fools and Horses.

Especially when it really isn't literally.
Eg I literally gave 300,% effort.
It's impossible so it can't be literally!

'Footwear' - they're SHOES, FFS!

'A red lip completes the look nicely'

'Makes your eyes pop'

(I used to work at a women's magazine)

Moreish!!!!

When I worked for a new chain restaurant that was opening up once it was called ‘ a soft opening ‘ on day one.
It just wound me up for no reason at all and made a few people smirk. Calling the tables they had ‘ covers’ was another one. I know it’s all hospitality speak , but not sure why it wound me up.
Rainbow bridge is cringy, but people get emotional ( emosh ) over these things
Hugs , babe , honey lines on Facebook are usually from the fake people on there.

I really hate "pivot" used in a work context. Unless your work is netball you are not pivoting.