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Phrases that make you cringe

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BitSilly · 15/07/2025 11:37

'Creative juices' is awful.

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SuburbanSprawl · 16/07/2025 04:06

Oh….

”if you know, you know”

Smug, lazy, empty wank.

IsabelleLeduc · 16/07/2025 04:58

Fill out a form. If you're British, it's fill IN.
'On the daily'

GreyLion · 16/07/2025 07:45

AngelicKaty · 15/07/2025 16:23

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. 😥

Sorry to hear that, sounds like she must of been so hard to deal with

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 16/07/2025 08:24

Ditto to ‘my bad’
’Early doors’ is another that really irritates me. How can doors ever be ‘early’? Unless of course you’ve ordered new ones but then they’d ‘arrive’ early.

derxa · 16/07/2025 08:33

JudgeJ · 15/07/2025 21:53

I always find it amusing that seeing how the Daily Mail is so vilified on MN so many posters seem very familiar with it!

I read it online every day. Most of it behind a paywall now.

AussieMum135 · 16/07/2025 08:36

DiscoNights · 15/07/2025 11:54

Little ones or little people

So very

My son's year teacher always writes "little human" it gives me absolute rage everytime I see it!

LF11 · 16/07/2025 08:45

Foob - for a reconstructed breast. Then moan that it’s no longer feels “part of you”. Well stop calling it a foob then.

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 16/07/2025 09:14

Fast forward

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 16/07/2025 09:15

People claiming to be “broken “

Nevernottrying · 16/07/2025 09:46

My bad. I completely irrationally hate this saying. It doesn’t even make sense. Don’t know why it winds me up, but it does 🤪

Zov · 16/07/2025 09:47

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 16/07/2025 09:15

People claiming to be “broken “

Yeah, 'broken' is annoying, and 'hand hold please.' 😖

RubyBiscuitt · 16/07/2025 09:51
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Zov · 16/07/2025 09:52

What's that @RubyBiscuitt ? ^

BitSilly · 16/07/2025 10:04

"I speak as I find" usually precedes a downright rude comment which you should most certainly not say out loud.

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Cattenberg · 16/07/2025 10:31

BitSilly · 16/07/2025 10:04

"I speak as I find" usually precedes a downright rude comment which you should most certainly not say out loud.

In my experience, the people who pride themselves on speaking as they find, telling it how it is, saying what everyone else is thinking, being blunt as a spoon, calling a spade a spade, or not sugar-coating it, rarely have anything positive to say. It's not as though they go through the world boldly complimenting strangers, "I love your dress, babe, where did you get it?"

the80sweregreat · 16/07/2025 10:34

The I call a ‘spade a spade’ people are often upset when it’s done to them I’ve often found. Only works one way usually.

LizaRadleywasonthespectrum · 16/07/2025 11:45

A red lip… do you just leave the other blank?

SharpWriter · 16/07/2025 12:01

iseethembloom · 15/07/2025 22:34

I’ve already posted three times to this thread but there are so many.

People working in service positions who say ‘for me’, as in, ‘can you sign here for me’, ‘can you fill this form out for me’. It’s just irritating. It’s unthinking, redundant and it’s unnecessarily servile.

Ditto ‘At all’. ‘Anything else at all?’ ‘Would you like a bag at all?’ Why? Pointless!

There are so many speech patterns that get on my tits.

Or when you buy a couple of items in a shop and the assistant says 'just these two today?' as if you're a complete tight wad for not buying up the whole shop.

Inyournewdress · 16/07/2025 12:30

Cattenberg · 16/07/2025 10:31

In my experience, the people who pride themselves on speaking as they find, telling it how it is, saying what everyone else is thinking, being blunt as a spoon, calling a spade a spade, or not sugar-coating it, rarely have anything positive to say. It's not as though they go through the world boldly complimenting strangers, "I love your dress, babe, where did you get it?"

Yes, and I often find that these people forget that speaking bluntly doesn’t necessarily mean they are right. Often the ‘truth’ they are speaking is wildly subjective or inaccurate.

Archert · 16/07/2025 12:50

LizaRadleywasonthespectrum · 16/07/2025 11:45

A red lip… do you just leave the other blank?

'A white T' ....

"Baboom - tish" - accompabied by the annoying hand gestures. I could snatch those drum-sticks and stick them up your ar$e.

Bobblebiscuits296 · 16/07/2025 12:51

Oh gosh yes! I loathe “my bad”!

The other thing that makes me rage is when health care workers issue instructions using awful infant-appropriate language such as;

“just pop yourself on the bed for me please”

“just take your top off for me please”

“just get dressed for me please”

It makes me want to reply “no but being sound of mind I will choose do that for my own sake thanks” but that would make me sound like an arse so I don’t 😆.

JudgeJ · 16/07/2025 12:52

BitSilly · 16/07/2025 10:04

"I speak as I find" usually precedes a downright rude comment which you should most certainly not say out loud.

My late MIL used to say that 'I speak as I find', and I would sometimes respond with 'Yes, I can be bloody rude too' but she never caught on.

'End of', the verbal two fingers salute.

HerVagestyTheQueef · 16/07/2025 16:35

Bobblebiscuits296 · 16/07/2025 12:51

Oh gosh yes! I loathe “my bad”!

The other thing that makes me rage is when health care workers issue instructions using awful infant-appropriate language such as;

“just pop yourself on the bed for me please”

“just take your top off for me please”

“just get dressed for me please”

It makes me want to reply “no but being sound of mind I will choose do that for my own sake thanks” but that would make me sound like an arse so I don’t 😆.

Edited

I have twice seen the word "tummy" used on the NHS website.

I'm not a small child or a moron, so I now look elsewhere for healthcare and medical advice.

NaeRolls · 16/07/2025 16:38

LizaRadleywasonthespectrum · 16/07/2025 11:45

A red lip… do you just leave the other blank?

Yes, and presumably you just do one smokey eye as well. And one half of a wide-legged trouser.

gotmyknickersinatwist · 16/07/2025 17:55

'There, but for the grace of god, go I'.

Load of balls.

There, but for education; financial security; supportive family & social circle; proper healthcare; good parenting etc. etc. go you and I.
Whichever god you happen to believe in has naff all to do with it.

Gives me the rage, and I want to chastise anyone I hear saying it.

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