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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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GettingTheHellOut · 17/07/2025 15:03

Partying hard. I mean, what???

Blondiney · 17/07/2025 15:05

GettingTheHellOut · 17/07/2025 15:03

Partying hard. I mean, what???

Partying hard after a day of smashing it in the office and lifting heavy at the gym. 💪

🤢

Andoutcomethewolves · 17/07/2025 15:06

JudgeJ · 17/07/2025 09:48

The response to 'see you later alligator' is 'in a while crocodile', just to show off my terrible boomer credentials!

🤣

I know but it gets a bit annoying after six years!

nahthatsnotforme · 17/07/2025 15:07

Give your head a wobble.

HRTQueen · 17/07/2025 15:10

a pop of colour and pop over blouse/shirt

so twee

and almost all sentences that have the word creative in

Andoutcomethewolves · 17/07/2025 15:10

Brendahollowayreconsider · 17/07/2025 13:08

Or golly gosh..as heard on Antiques roadshow.. just no!!

Or 'Goodness gracious!'

Nobody I know says that in real life

HRTQueen · 17/07/2025 15:11

gifted annoys me too

no one said gifted until 2019

what is wrong with the gift I gave them or they gave me a gift of

Andoutcomethewolves · 17/07/2025 15:15

GettingTheHellOut · 17/07/2025 15:03

Partying hard. I mean, what???

I'm assuming doing coke and ketamine in the toilet at a warehouse rave but may be judging people by my standards haha

CortadoPlease · 17/07/2025 15:17

ByPithyLion · 16/07/2025 22:54

Pan fried..what else are you going to fry it in?
Bite to eat
Six and two threes
Just a heads up
Tomorrows another day

Deep fried? Quite a different thing.

Work related: people that announce they need to leave a group call with “Got to drop.” Urghhh

shewasasaint · 17/07/2025 16:57

A crisp white shirt.

Overtheatlantic · 17/07/2025 17:02

GettingTheHellOut · 17/07/2025 15:03

Partying hard. I mean, what???

I think this expression started in the 80s. I might be wrong but I associate it with big hair bands like Whitesnake. 😬 Awful phrase.

Overtheatlantic · 17/07/2025 17:03

BitSilly · 16/07/2025 23:13

'Please be gentle' is even worse.

I always think of a virgin on her wedding night 😆

Pedant5corner · 17/07/2025 17:10

@GettingTheHellOut , in the 1980s there was a 'work hard, play hard' culture. Think Wall Street (the film).

Britishtrees · 17/07/2025 17:26

’Long story short’ makes my toes curl.
’Lost’ instead of died (in my head I’m thinking: how careless…).

Britishtrees · 17/07/2025 17:28

A red lip, a trouser, an eye. I see people with strange deformities in my head and it puts me off the design or style being described.

BitSilly · 17/07/2025 18:37

All the teenagers around here are going about saying "Oh my days" 😁

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Bunny65 · 17/07/2025 18:38

Be kind

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 17/07/2025 18:59

BunnyLake · 17/07/2025 11:32

Certain ages (me) will nearly always automatically respond with the ‘In a while crocodile’. Or, alternatively, ‘Not if I see you first’.

ThNks, I love these. 🙂.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 17/07/2025 19:02

Saying POV as in Point of view with most sentences instead of like, which is bad enough.

Learnt today that the word photoshop is outdated, instead, it's reconstructed :/

GustyGoo · 17/07/2025 19:05

First world problems. We live in the first world, we’re hardly going to be complaining about river blindness…

Om83 · 17/07/2025 19:27

GettingTheHellOut · 17/07/2025 11:16

@Om83 Hi I’m xxxx and just wanted to share a photo I took (on FB)

This comes up automatically I think when new people join a group and they think it has to be answered as a requisite of membership and don't delete the pre-filled text. They don't just create that wording themselves. But I agree it is irritating.

I had no idea!! Thanks for sharing as I just thought everyone was turning into robotic idiots!! 😂

Om83 · 17/07/2025 19:29

To further the ‘unalived’ cringe… for anyone who hasn’t seen this it’s meant to be Harry Potter… 😂😂

Phrases that make you cringe
Wethers121 · 17/07/2025 19:31

Low hanging fruit 🍇

MadisonAvenue · 17/07/2025 20:28

My bad
Gifted
Hosted
Reach out
Journey (when you’re not actually travelling anywhere)
Super excited/happy etc

Don’t take this the wrong way but…. my sister in law says this a lot and you know as soon as she says it that you’re being judged or criticised for something.

BunnyLake · 17/07/2025 20:30

Britishtrees · 17/07/2025 17:28

A red lip, a trouser, an eye. I see people with strange deformities in my head and it puts me off the design or style being described.

Sounds like the description of a Picasso painting.

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