Phrases that make you cringe

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'Creative juices' is awful.

Famalam makes me think of flans.
It’s family ( ‘ flaming family ‘sometimes )
When politicians say ‘ look ‘ before their spiel. You know it won’t be good whatever they say.

And describing things as “vanilla”

“Fell pregnant” I really hate it and the connotations of fallen women. Eurgghhh

We're pregnant

I'm reaching out

Thinking outside the box and other management speak nonsense

Fur babies

A 'cheeky' anything

Aww bless

Yeah, 'lived experience' makes me want to shout 'GET FUCKED' really loudly. I might just start doing it. The word is 'experience'. No need for the 'lived' bit. You can't fucking experience anything if you're dead.

"The ick" (haven't spotted this yet!)

Why have some people started saying they are bringing something "with" rather than "with me"?
Also all this daft describing of inanimate objects, particularly handbags as "she".

I’m not sure that “fallen women” is the intended connotation though.

You go girl!

Being, or not being, a ‘happy bunny’. Also at work they keep saying we have to go for the ‘low hanging fruit’.

oh and ‘circle back’. Urghhh

“Pick your brains”

"Gender fluid"

Not because I'm ideologically opposed to such nonsense but mostly because it puts me in mind of snail trails of excitement left on bus seats 🤢

Gentle reminder
It is what it is

Not a phrase as such but I take great exception to the names people give to nurseries - they are always so painfully twee: "little ducklings, tiny little chickie-wickies" (ok, maybe not that). It makes me never want to use them.

I hate almost every phrase mentioned in the 8 pages I've just read.

I also hate this bollocks. Gives me the visual image of arms outstretched.

Apparently, a casual way of saying, "Can you do me a favour?" or "Can you help me out".

See link for discussion of etymology:

english.stackexchange.com/questions/339212/what-is-the-origin-of-the-expression-do-me-a-solid

Speaking your/my/their truth, or speaking truth to power.

Those phrases make me want to wallop the speaker with a plank.

a new one for me is referring to random objects as ‘her’
for example talking about a new cooker: ‘oh, she is a beauty’
new car: ‘she is a powerful beast’ 🥴
just stop, it’s cringe

I used to know a woman who referred to her (very tall) partner as "the boy". 😬

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger etc...tell that to the guys in hospital for MH.

Also, what's meant for you doesn't pass you by....see above.

To be fair, I think that is a legitimate grammatical and lexical way to describe becoming pregnant. It's the same in French (tomber enceinte).

There was a whole thread on this some months ago where someone said they thought it cringey and they were attacked and piled on and asked who they thought they were to tell someone how to grieve.

What about "gendy neutch" (instead of gender neutral).

Said to me by a shop assistant when I was buying joggers from the boys section for my dd.

That was a really common expression when I was a kid growing up. People absolutely peppered their sentences with it (East Midlands). Haven't heard it in decades, though (might still be common usuage there for all I know).