To be so terribly, terribly cross?

[musicforsmorks]

In reality, I am asking is it being remotely unreasonable to suspect that hardly anyone uses this phrase in 'real life'?
It's all very well when one is perusing their Enid Blyton collection but I have honestly rarely come across it as a common element of social/familial dialogue (and I've been around a bit ).

Another one is 'Oh my goodness!', which, whilst having stood the test of time (unlike the poor, neglected cross), still doesn't crop up with regularity in my social circles or professional life very often.

Also interested in hearing other people's thoughts on certain phrases, and whether they are particular to MN, the written word, or just off with the fairies or whatnot.

My favourite MN regular is the did you mean to be so ruuuude?
Although, whilst frequently tempted, I have not yet had the pleasure of uttering it with any true gravitas in real life :(

I think fossilised fish hooks! Was a ‘Jennings’ (Anthony Buckeridge) thing.

I do use cross, maybe more since DC.

Toddler DD used to pull the wallpaper off the wall and I always used to tap the back of her hand hand and say 'NO! Naughty! Mummy is cross!' (It never stopped her but I did try....).

She sat on granny's lap one day and played with her necklace, which was a cross on a chain. Granny said 'That's my cross'. DD jumped off, ran to point to the (damaged) wallpaper and tapped the back of her hand.

Made me laugh. She certainly knew the word, but it never stopped her bad behaviour! Thankfully now aged 13 she's stopped trashing wallpaper, and if I say I'm cross she'll apologise......

Not sure I've ever been 'terribly' cross though - that might be too Enid Blyton.......

@musicforsmorks

My DP's favourite insult when truly cross (not sure if he invented this one or not) is:

'Go and take a running fuck at a rolling donut'.

I recognize that one. Kurt Vonnegut. Can’t remember which book it’s from though, maybe Slaughterhouse 5?