Cringe Phrases

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In and of itself
Why do people use that phrase, isn't "in itself" enough?
See also
At This Moment In Time
Er...now?
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Is this thread still going? Surely we must have parked the macro by now, and it's time to sunset it?!

My case in point.

I agree with most of these but the example I hate above all others is that no musical artist today ever releases a second album. It's always their sophomore album. Why have we imported that expression from the States? No-one in the UK calls their second year at uni their sophomore year. And why is it never applied to anything else? No-one has a sophomore pint of lager or a sophomore dog walk or a sophomore poo.

sophomore poo! 😂😅

When someone says, "[insert occupation] here!" at the start of a post.
'Teacher here'
'Childcare worker here'

I always picture how it would come across if someone said this face-to-face.

lol I definitely use the ones that make me sound like I’m going to do something much more quickly than I am. “Just going to run into the cafe and grab a quick coffee on the way”. There’s never any running or grabbing or even quickness involved!!

Whats Owareyahallry? And what’s wrong with can I get? In Scotland everyone says this when ordering a coffee or something. What else would you say? Can I have? Isn’t it just much of a muchness?

It’s how are you, all right?

The can I get issue has been on here many times. can = am I able to. Get = to fetch something, with the implication that you are asking permission to find the item for yourself. It’s an Americanism, and makes me cringe every time I hear it. Pure pedantry on my part, of course.

Better would be may I have, or may I please have.

Sorry for lack of punctuation. Keyboard issues.

@coldwetlettuce

There was a whole thread once from an American lady who said Can I get to a waiter in her post and it was incidental but she was not forgiven for many pages.

Only on Mumsnet 🤣

Big of boob and large of nork

I cringe a little at these descriptions because I then see party balloons blowing on a door or missiles with several people in military uniform fussing around them.

Trouser as a singular.

What about ‘ there’s no coming back from that’…. It sounds like gobbledygook to me. Took me a while to realise it means irreparable.

I absolutely hate the term 'pack up'- it's a bloody packed lunch!😂

Yes it makes it sound like one leg only

I think ( don't quote me I could be lying) that it originated when a jacket was sold with two pairs of trousers in a suit as you'd likely remove the jacket indoors but the trousers got more wear . So having a pair ofk trousers was two 'pairs'

I have another one :
Much as I love watched Sorted Food , I do wish they'd just use the proper words.
They say
Spal bol ( which I think is quite a known abbreviation)
Crem Pat ( for Creme patisserie)
Worst one is " Butts" for " butter"'
How much more effort to use the whole name ?
I'm sure there's more

Stunning…. For any old shit

Worst one is " Butts" for " butter"'
Now, that's just lazy!

Not sure “a roast dinner” is any worse than “a roast” unless you are roasting all components of the dinner?

I have an irrational dislike of “this part of the world”

I’ve seen “my flabbers were Gasted” maybe amusing first time it was written but now… so awful.

The funniest one I read just went on and on.

’Specialist clinical support in third year of training at a central medical hub aligned to a top university research centre here’.

I think everyone had fallen asleep by the end of the actual post.

When talking about roast dinners, the phrase ‘with all the trimmings’ really irritates me

Lived experience. Means the same as personal experience, what's wrong with saying just that?

When a fully grown adult says : " I want to be xyz when I grow up"

Infantile not cute

ffs now I'm going to be thinking reacharound next time someone says 'reaching out' in a meeting (which is fairly often where I work) 😂