Phrases that make you cringe

[BitSilly]

'Creative juices' is awful.

Men peppering every sentence with "mate" and "pal".

Beautiful on the inside and out

Love you to the moon and back

My absolute rock

Hubby, hubster, my other half

Holibobs

You got this!

Merry Christmas from ours to yours (This makes me positively want to vomit)

All social media twaddle usually spouted by fucking morons.

This was particularly bad during COVID. Even when Chris Whitty was delivering statistics and not talking directly about anyone he couldn't just matter-of-factly say "died".

Authentic self and My truth

Learnings should be illegal.

'Journey' when it doesn't involve actual travel

'Making memories'

'Woke' as an insult, and especially derivatives like 'wokester', 'wokerati'. etc.

'I'm not racist BUT....'

'I don;t want to be rude BUT...'

'Happy birthday' if said to me- I am a complete birthday-phobic.

And numerous. Almost nothing is.

Hun

Always used just before disrespecting someone.

Some meaningless bollocks about "tearing women down". Typically spouted on social media by the Be Kind crew.

Covers isn't tables though, it's how many people you can serve.

‘My truth’

Oh , I always thought covers meant tables !
my bad ..oops cringey phrase there lol

Everything written above, but especially play dates. I bloody hate play dates. It’s not a date ffs. Your child is going to their friend’s house to play.

And you can’t find and display stuff anymore. It has to be curated.

😆

Sourced .. you bought it then ?

‘Hun’ 😬

’If that makes sense’ 😩

’And how is baby doing?/let me just see where baby’s laying’ etc - said by health professional who seems not to know about putting the word ‘the’ in front of the word baby.

Irish too. For some reason we have to turn around before we speak 😁

Usually preceded by the pointless question of 'and do you know what she did then....'

Rainbow baby

Not a phrase at all , but one of these type of threads once on mumsnet someone wrote ‘ .. and he banged it right there on the table ‘ and they never found out what it was! I love overhearing other people’s conversations. Try to work out what they are on about ( or who )

Yep, agree with all these

Can I add ‘thrifting’ when they’re going to charity shops?

Everything so far. Also “working tirelessly” and, “I’ll do…” when ordering food or drink.

Are we talking about a baby chick?

‘ Working tirelessly ‘ is trotted out by utility companies trying to find ways of ripping you off even more.

Yes. ‘ pre loved ‘ is cringy.
It was so loved they wanted rid of it out the cupboards.