Words Or Phrases That Make You Cringe

[Dino Velvet]

Awesomeness right here. I enjoyed it too.

[Dino Velvet]

Russian translators have issues with bro-speak



"Not amuse..."

[my my my!]

"you're just so hard to buy presents for" variation: "you're so hard to shop for"

-no , you're just too lazy or cheap to look for my "difficult" gifts.

"more than words can express" variation: "there are simply no words to describe this"

-no, you simply have a limited vocabulary and one track mind (thanks Anton, i agree with you fully)

[robertlouis]

Right now in the UK it's the phrase "hard-working families" which every fuckwit politician of whatever hue will throw out like a tired, spent, meaningless mantra.

[theone1982]

Totes adorbs

[Girlpearls]

"Not so much."

Grammatically, it's correct and makes sense, but whenever I read or hear the phrase, I cringe.
It just feels HEAVY and affected.
It's become one of those passive end-of-discussion taglines that have gotten as tiresome as "just sayin'."

Well, that was my two cents, but not so much...just sayin'!

Shoot me...

[EZWind]

Right now in the UK it's the phrase "hard-working families" which every fuckwit politician of whatever hue will throw out like a tired, spent, meaningless mantra.

...same here, only for our fuckwits it's "the American people" say this or "the American people" want that, when in fact they haven't a clue what the actual American people actually want
...the GOP just finished getting together for their annual pow wow circle jerk retreat and have all come away w/ the latest new buzzword...Trust...and they're all tripping over each other to see who can use it the most. Obama can't be trusted...he's lawless and untrustworthy, etc. There isn't a one of them that can utter more than 2 sentences w/out using it...it's hilarious

[jerseygirlangie]

There's something about describing something as " to die for " that has always been like fingernails on a blackboard for me .

[Prospero]

"Under the previous government" and "we inherited this situation"... Tory speak to blame everything on Labour in the UK. Right now there is a covert blame game going on with Eric (Jabba The Hut) Pickles trying to blame the former Labour minister Lord Smith for the flooding issues as head of the environment agency.

In everyday speak ..."totally unique" If something is unique there can be no gradations.
Also the way that everyone has adopted the word "refute" to mean challenge or dispute. Refute means to categorically disprove (As in one of my favourite Borges essays "A new refutation of time.")

"I literally died/exploded/ etc etc etc"... for obvious reasons.

"To die for"... yep that's pretty cliched. In fact, cliche generally upsets me.

[Prospero]

"I'm not a racist BUT....."