Phrases that make you cringe

[BitSilly]

'Creative juices' is awful.

Ducks in a row. It really annoys me. Don't know exactly why. Usually about some awful partner OP is about to leave.

Also "passing", "passed". Died and dead will suffice (although I can see where some people prefer "passed away"). And this from someone who has seen more of her fair share of death over the years.

“Can I pick your brain?”

"Makes me die"

Famalam
Hollibobs
Besties used by adult females in my experience to describe a cliquey group of (grown up) mean girl types
Amazeballs
Journey
IYKYK - smug and cliquey quite frankly

No worries!

I wasn’t worried.

• Aw, bless
• "The boy" when referring to own boyfriend/husband [favoured by a particular type of middle class woman, and I say this as a middle class woman]
• Forever home
• Early doors
• Ideate
• Going forward

"Caught feelings" like wtf? Did you catch a disease too?

“Posed up a storm”. Yuk - lazy, lazy journalism.

have not RTFT because i think it would be bad for my blood pressure:

Making memories
fur babies
invite - as a noun. IT'S INVITATION
obligated - IT'S OBLIGED most of the time
fam, famalam etc
holiobs
found my tribe (found my people is fine)

Leaning in.

My story or my truth
My journey (not related to travel)
Curated
Share my...
Living my best life

I should stay off social media.

Picky bits makes me suicidal

I was like - grrrrrr.
At the end of the day (also mentioned by a pp) - I always fill in with 'it gets dark'.
Hit the ground running
Going forward

It’s not just me then! I’m always querying the word sat in this context. If you are in a chair surely it’s sitting?

I'm not sure I know what this means , definitely never heard it!

Living my best life.
Most of President Trump’s sayings , but at least it’s not the usual political word salad the others use I suppose
… err , word salad ..
reaching out
Cheap as chips.

Finding her/his tribe.

People on here use it when they mean their child finding friends. I read a thread aloud to my partner recently and when I read that bit she winced and said "Sounds a tad tastelessly racist."

Poonami.

Baby shat everywhere. Fuck off with your Poonami.

Leaning in ‘is bad. I imagine people leaning over.

Making memories
Holibobs
Famalam
Then all 3 together on an Instagram post - 'On holibobs, making memories with my famalam'
Cringe...

A weird turn of phrase and strange use of pronouns that lots of Mumsnetters seem to like to use and I've never seen elsewhere.

eg using "Her and her sister did ..." or "Her and her partner went ..." etc etc rather than "She and her sister did ..." or "She and her partner went..." etc etc.

I doubt these same people would say "Her did this..." or "Her went away..."

Touching base
Thinking outside the box

Describing things as "marmite". I don't have strong feelings about it; it's only adverts which make people think it's divisive.

“My world” - often posted by newly single mums with photos of their kids on Facebook.