Phrases that make you cringe

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'Creative juices' is awful.

Lunch… its dinner here in durham x

This thread has made me realise that I must be extremely intolerant as I agree that almost all of the suggested phrases are really irritating. I don’t care, either.

It's dinner here too. Breakfast, dinner and supper.

And Ne Scotland

• to tell you the truth/ to be honest with you (to me this implies that there’s been some insincerity when perhaps that’s not the intention of the statement!)
• at the end of the day
• let’s play it by ear
• mercury is in retrograde (or similar to excuse/explain some behaviour)
• Dog mum / similar
• Trigger warning (and mentions the “trigger” which kind of defeats the point?)
• its giving (“its giving wealth” when referring to someone owning something luxurious, for example)

super power

Fur babies

That is odd tbf.

I also detest 'we are pregnant.' (As many people have mentioned...)

Oooh, thought of something else. Last year I got SICK of hearing about bloody BRAT SUMMER. Boooooooooring. I cared not one itoa about Charlie XC fucking X! 🙄

"I'm not gonna lie"

"Give your head a wobble"

" now we're cooking on gas"

I was today years old when I found out……

Holding space

Holibobs

Fam / Famalam

Crimbo

Making memories

Boils my piss

Using the phrase “It’s giving…….” but then missing out the word “vibes” at the end.

Forever home

Smashed it/smashing it/smash it - just no

to be fair - never contextually accurate

I’m not gonna lie - I presumed not

When you… as in ‘when you go to maccies and there’s no mcflurries’ - I’m always waiting for the end of the statement

I find life quite trying 🤣

I’m sort of with you there, Zov. It seems awfully blunt to say “they’re dead”

I also don’t like the expression “put down”. with regards to family pets, it seems brutal. I much prefer “put to sleep” We’ve just lost our gorgeous Ddog and I’m a bit sensitive at the moment…

I get irritated by “Hi Guys” which features a lot online, usually said with fake sincerity.

”end of” which is a damn rude way of saying “I’m right and that’s it, don’t even think you’ve got an opinion”

“Stay safe, take care” more fake concern, particularly during Covid, so annoying as we were all trying to do our bit.

”You snooze, you lose” childish.
Hun, holibobs, little man, hubster, hubs,…. Yuk! Talk properly!

• Hubby
• Non aesthetic
• The boys
• The girls
• POV

Big girl pants
Gobsmacked
Oh my days!

Love you to the moon and back (eww)

I love the bones of you.

Conjures up a very unsexy, unromantic, unlovely image.

Special shout out for (it makes me cringe to write the words) ‘love you all the pennies’.

🔪 🔫 ☠️ 😡

' Fly high ' - when someone has died. 😬

Give your head a wobble. Only ever hear it on MN!

“Iconic” when 99% of the things so described are nothing of the sort.

”Across” when used on the news/radio as in “we’ll keep you across all the developments on [insert trite subject] as they happen…” no you won’t - we won’t actually splay ourselves across all the ghastly details of whatever nasty thing Richard Tice is going to say next. You’ll update us.

University of life

Just wanted to touch base 🤮

My pronouns are...

I’m in the cringe at ‘rainbow bridge’ bollocks. My dog DIED. We were heartbroken. If any friends had even attempted any rainbow bridge nonsense in their condolences, I’d have been beyond irritated.