Phrases that make you cringe

[BitSilly]

'Creative juices' is awful.

I’ll add ‘gently’ to your kindly.

I’ve thought of another one, much beloved of mumsnet and it makes me shudder:

nip it in the bud

'Touch base' 🥴🤯🤮🙈

'Please be gentle' is even worse.

Breakfast, lunch and tea in Leeds, yet I refer to noon as dinnertime!!! 🤣

I'm surprised I've not seen this one-

"Live, laugh, love," I will immediately judge anyone with this random association of words starting with the same letter on their walls...if we're going in that direction I'd love a cushion with three words all starting with B too rude to write here. I'll bet THAT won't turn up in TK Maxx. I wonder if anyone on Etsy does them?

"It's giving vibes" yeah, I think Ann Summers sells stuff for that...

"Be Kind" normally said by people who are otherwise anything but....!

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Fuming

So....

My bad

Like

Good-By Now or Pardon My Gauntlet by Ogden Nash

Bring down the moon for genteel Janet;
She's too refined for this gross planet.
She wears garments and you wear clothes,
You buy stockings, she purchases hose.
She say That is correct, and you say Yes,
And she disrobes and you undress.
Confronted by a mouse or moose,
You turn green, she turns chartroose.
Her speech is new-minted, freshly quarried;
She has a fore-head, you have a forehead.
Nor snake nor slowworm draweth nigh her;
You go to bed, she doth retire.
To Janet, births are blessed events,
And odors that you smell she scents.
Replete she feels, when her food is yummy,
Not in the stomach but the tummy.
If urged some novel step to show,
You say Like this, she says Like so.
Her dear ones don't die, but pass away;
Beneath her formal is lonjeray.
Of refinement she's a fount, or fountess,
And that is why she's now a countess.
She was asking for the little girls' room
And a flunky though she said the earl's room.

I like that saying. My friend said this to me when I has breast cancer and it really helped me to stay strong.

So true, those are really annoying

Aah thank you… she was a lovely girl. She’d starred on here a couple of times when there was “show me your daft dogs” threads.🐾
Im still really grieving… and super-sensitive so I can’t bear the harshness of “she died” I’ll take any description bar that at the moment!

My husband says 'toodliepicksy!' and/or 'catch you later alligator' every day when he's off to work (I work from home)

It makes me want to kick him down the stairs 🤣

Let’s do a deep dive

Quintessential. 😡

Smell you later!
The World of Work
rich tapestry of life
university of life.

🤬

He or she had ‘ a good innings ‘ once they have died.
People who say ‘ sure ‘ a lot or absolutely

I haven’t heard this one for a while now thank goodness 😂
‘Bumping uglies’

I had a nurse say this to me when leaving hospital following a hysterectomy, my response was “ hopefully not”.

@ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews . "shit hole" it's not a synonym for "council estate".. Just to clarify.

My auntie always says “the sun goes down” to anyone who dares say this 😂

Not to be that person, but….

Hubby

anyone who begins a sentence with “so…”

with that being said

Loads of these are making me snort with agreement, but for all the haters of "rainbow bridge", my feeling is that it wouldn't hurt to be a bit magnanimous about this one. Not just because I use it (i do)", of course but because many would agree that it does actually make things a little bit less painful in those circumstances, and is especially helpful as a symbolic scenario for children. It doesn't have to be religious although it can be. Mostly it just helps some of us with dealing with the death of our much loved animals so a bit of slack can be cut in this respect, I feel.

Is he two!! 😂😂.
Toodles is bad enough.

At least you can laugh about it.

Reminds me of an ex who liked to be called by his very baby-ish nickname.

Since I’ve just seen it, ‘New Years’, no apostrophe, either.
What happened to poor old New Year’s Eve? (Or New Year’s Day]

Gobsmacked.

and ‘a pop of colour’