Christmas words/phrases that make you cringe

[EducatingArti]

Do you have any Christmas words or phrases that make you cringe.

Mine are:
Crimbo
The Big Day
Magical.

The latter two are partly because I think it puts too much pressure on people to do something that isn't attainable - too much emphasis on things being perfect during a particular 24 hour period.

Little children will be happy and excited (and probably get overwhelmed and overtired and have tantrums) if they have family who love them, some presents from family and Santa and some treats/special food and some decorations like a Christmas tree. Beyond this I'm not sure what "making it magical" really means. It will be what it will be and children will react however they react.

Xmas

This 👆🏼 Can’t stand the word! Also hate Crimbo OP. Otherwise, I can’t think of any others.

Totally with you on magic and magical. Never seen it so much as I have this year. I don't get what it means either. Not something I've ever felt a need to try and create

People saying they're shopping for ' the last few bits ' 🤔

Not exclusively a Christmas phrase but it does my tree is regardless... 'picky bits'

I LOVE Xmas. Easy to write, easier to spell, inoffensive (although many people will tell you it's not).

Magic I agree. It's not magical. It's hard work and pretending it's all done by a fat male housebreaker to avoid giving the women credit annoys me.

'Pressies' irrationally pisses me off. No idea why.

Soaking up the atmosphere - 🤮

I hate 'help themselves' when describing meals

Xmas
Crimbo 😡
Santa

Crimbo
Gin-gle bells
Chrissy as well - someone at work referred to it as that and I gagged a bit

Not just at Christmas but pud, chocs and “posh” anything. Bonus hatred for “posh chocs”. Oh and booze, especially “boozy lunch”.

Aaaand, on MN, people who claim they take turns opening presents so they can oooh and ahhh at each others’. Does anyone really oooh and ahhh in real life??

Are you all ready? And similar. I’m not preparing for a war, or to climb Everest. It’s just a two day holiday thing!

'He's been!'

Accompanying an Instagram pic of a tree with an absolute mountain of presents wrapped to coordinate with the tree.

Crimbo
Trimings (as in food with all the trimmings - aaaaagh)

@Neveranynamesleft This was my Facebook post on 21st dec last year- spied on Twitter

Spied below on ‘Very British problems’ on Twitter-
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For the next week, everyone has “a few bits left to get”. Just a few bits. Few bits left to get. Bits and bobs. Nearly there. Just a few bits and bobs to go. Getting there. Few bits left to get. Just a few bits. And bobs. Few bits and bobs. Few bits left to get. Just a few bits. Slowly but surely. Few bits and you’ll be done. Just a few bits left to get…

Yes these give me the festive cringe

All the best......The best of what ???🤔

@Purplecatshopaholic ohgod yes- I hate the word 'trimmings' too - the only trimmings I see on what is a pretty standard roast dinner that wouldn't normally be there are pigs in blankets

The deeply repetitive and uninspiring small talk opener from shop assistants/hairdressers/all sorts of randomers throughout December:

"Have you all your Christmas shopping done?" / "Are you all set for Christmas?"

As a single, childless atheist it gives me the RAGE when people ask me "Are you all set for Christmas?"

“Crimbo”
“All the trimmings” - for a “slap-up meal” that someone has “plated up”
”Are you all ready for Christmas?”
Christmas “pud”
Christmas “box”
Roasties
Yorkies
The “works Xmas do” - especially when it involves supposedly sane adults drinking to the point of vomiting and/or spouses disappearing for 24 hours
And then, once lunch is over, “Well, that’s it over and done with for another year!”

I’ve seen it for the first time on here this year, used by a number of posters: ‘twixtmas’. WTF is that now?

Indeed! Does it mean the period between Christmas and New Year? Whatever it means - FFS!

That's exactly what it means, and I think it's quite creative. In Germany (for example) they say 'between the years', or even 'the days between the days' (the latter 'days' being Christmas Day and NYE), which makes equally little sense but I think is very poetic.

Am with PPs on the bloody 'magic'.

Calling Santa/father Christmas “the fat man” or “the man in red” as in “the fat man’s been!”