Phrases that make you cringe

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'Creative juices' is awful.

Bless him / her / them / you ..... only OK when someone has sneezed

In text - LOL winds me up !

Was this in the home counties? Ive noticed there's a weird posh southern tjing where they use this kind of structure to create slang 🤢 There was one for something to do with lockdown, cant for the life of me remember what it was

Especially when followed with this emoji: 💪
I also hate 'going forward' and 'moving forward'
Also noticed the word 'on' crops up now where it wasn't used before eg 'hating on' and 'loving on'
'Fat shaming'

"everything happens for a reason" is hard to listen to without a grimace when you consider things like the holocaust and children with cancer.

'Can I get' must be one of the most annoying phrases ever uttered, along with 'enjoy' when you are about to eat something which has been served to you in a pub/cafe/restaurant.

Little Man or Little Princess - ugh!

Hubby, holibobs, yummy, non nom nom, hun, etc.

However, one of my pet hates is when people (adults) say they are 'going for a wee' or 'a poo'. Can't they just say I am going to the loo or the bathroom - we don't want to know what you are going to do when you get there, thank you!

I (briefly ) dated a guy who referred to his teenage son as my boy .

CRINGE indeed

"Not my circus not my monkeys"
"You do you"
"I was today years old..."

Completely overused and people think they are being really witty, clever, etc. Actually just cringe.

'The boys', if you are a male over the age of 25.
'The girls', if you are a female over 25.
Hollibobs.
'Like' in every sentence/every other word.
Picky bits.

My bad

Vastly preferable to

wet your appetite

however. I see this everywhere.

DS 2 is keen on this one :
‘ today is not that day ‘ mostly if I suggest doing something he doesn’t want to. I’ve started using it though ! Lol

"Transwoman" rather than the more accurate and not at all confusing "Trans identifying male"

"today years old"

"Sunday reset" instead of tidying and doing general housework - any other day of the week also counts 😂

"we are pregnant"

No, it was in a very unposh primark in Scotland.

It must be catching on.

I prefer “not my pig, not my farm”

Or “like” interspersed throughout !

Your boy or your girl is usually uttered by people who can’t remember your child’s name, which is fair enough as my memory isn’t what it once was.
Not a phrase , but the builders who do that breath between the teeth thing and then say ‘ can’t give an exact figure ‘ .. you know it’s going to be expensive

Layer up
Sweet treat
Light bite
It boils my piss
And just like that

I also become irrationally irritated when people go on about dahl every time there's a thread about eating on a budget.

Anything with "hun/darling/dear/sweetheart" at the end from random people.

Gentle reminder 🖕.

When tabloid newspapers say "X was blasted for doing Y."

"Blasted" with what exactly? Bullets? A power hose?
Blasted by who? Invisible people that only the tabloid is aware of?

Also... "read the riot act."

Ah yes, "chomping at the bit." It conjures up a mental image of someone so eager to do something that they are gnashing their teeth and snarling. Lovely.

Chippy tea, Chicken Dinner, Picky bits,
"I have a friend, let's call her "insert any name" "

Circle back.
Dog mum/dad.
I hope you find what you're looking for.

Haha yes and ‘little man’ and ‘this one’ 😡

‘Myself’ when people don’t know whether to say me or I. ‘My boyfriend and myself are going on holibobs’ would probably make me commit murder

‘Passed’ even worse than ‘passed away’.

’For yooooo’ at the end of a sentence. ‘Is that all right for yooooo?’ ‘Anything else for yooooo?’