Phrases that make you cringe

[BitSilly]

'Creative juices' is awful.

So and so has ‘Passed’, WIND? Or AWAY?

My late dad called his tea ‘
tiffin ‘ not sure why , but it annoyed my mum . A kind of colonial throw back maybe ?
🤔

And Nando's. It's apparently impossible to indulge in a Nando's that's anything other than cheeky.

While we're on 'cheeky', there appears to be a law that no journalist is permitted to write any piece that has anything - however remotely - to do with bottoms unless they manage to get the word 'cheeky' in there. I mean, do they think we're going to be surprised and amused? We're not. As soon as we see that the story's about some hapless Brit tourist on the Costa del Sol getting stung across the arse and thighs by a particularly nasty jellyfish, we know for absolutely certain that the word 'cheeky' is somewhere ahead, as inevitable as nightfall or taxes or death.

Super-everything in an advertising context.

super affordable
super cute
super hydrated
super versatile
super compact

super fuck off with your superbollocks

You do you.
Use your words.
Make it make sense.

'Tiny humans' for children. In fact, any reference to 'humans' when 'people' would fit better. Aggravatingly twee and very 'in this house, we...'

When you ask if your ok and they reply
‘
yeah , you ?’
Im ok, I wanted to know if your ok.., lol

It's giving

Tell me about it- which means that I'm now going to explain at great length why my experience was far worse than yours.
Hubster/holibobs/Sainsbos
At the minute/at the present moment -meaningless
Making memories

Haha! Good point!

A perfect storm
Unprecedented (during COVID)
Arriving into (rather than at or in)
Any management clichés of the low hanging fruit, clear blue water, ballpark figure etc type
Social justice snarks and gotchas: Educate yourself; do better; check your privilege; lived experience, etc
Be there for
Bright eyed and bushy tailed

I actually don't mind the rainbow bridge one; it has a long history. In Norse mythology it was called Bifrost.

'Can we diarise this?' What the fuck?

This was an email reply to a request to visit a department in another school. They stated they were due to be very busy with this & that, & could we 'diarise ' it for next term. What, you mean fix a date in the future / schedule this for the new term? Pure wankiness. I decided not to pursue it as I imagine there will be lots more wank-chat I can't cope with.

When someone calls an inanimate object ‘she’.
If it’s not a person or animal, it’s not ‘she’ !!!

Especially clothes. Its so affected.

Pushing the envelope. Trying opening it first ?

I feel like this about hairdressers. The one nearest to us is called ‘Choppy Toffs’ and it makes my rage burn deep within. In my experience all the hairdressers called things like the above are run by women who haven’t done a minutes training since they got their equivalent to an NVQ level 2 in 1977 and I wouldn’t let them near my leg hair let alone the hair on my head.

'Cool beans'

Only things you can call she that are inanimate are boats !

The narrative

' I am clear ..'

No you're not , unless you're a window pane. Or maybe a Scientologist.

Give your head a wobble
Are you on glue?

Both are terribly unoriginal and overused.

Just saw this and thought of this thread

Anything involving the word 'wholesome' 🤮
'A wholesome weekend with the family'
Why has this become a thing.

Referring to someone at work as 'the big boss'

We have this printed off in A3 and laminated on the wall in our office!