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Courtney · United States Just recorded

"It really grinds my gears when someone rushes me and then shows up late. Grinds my gears means something really annoys you, usually in a slow, nagging way that keeps looping in your head. It's a mechanical metaphor, like a gearbox being chewed up, and it got a massive boost from Family Guy, where Peter says it whenever he's wound up. Works for petty stuff and bigger injustices. Where does it come from? It comes from the older image of machine gears grinding when they don't mesh right, all noise, friction, and ugly resistance. The wording was already around in English before pop culture got a hold of it, but Family Guy blasted it into everyday slang with Peter Griffin's reoccurring 'what really grinds my gears' bit."

Courtney · United States Just recorded

"Before having children, people love to say, I'll never yell at my kids. And then they become parents and they're forced to eat their words. To eat your words means you have to take back what you said after chatting big and getting it plain wrong. You were dead certain reality pulled up with receipts. And now you've got to swallow the whole loud opinion. It's usually a bit embarrassing, a bit deserved and perfect for when everyone else is enjoying the moment. Where does it come from? The idiom has been in English for centuries, with written examples going back to the 1500s. The picture is blunt and easy to feel. If you talked big, bragged, or made a confident call that flopped, you end up having to swallow those same words back. That simple image is why it never died"

Janna · United States

"Silent repost is basically just a statement you say because when you want to repost something... let's get into reposting. Basically when there's something on TikTok or Instagram that you really relate with, it could be a post or just basically a post like a video or a photo or like a caption or whatever, you have the option to repost it, which basically means you agree with it. So silent repost is basically when something that you secretly relate to and you don't really want people to know about it publicly, but you just really relate to it. So people usually comment like, oh, silent repost, this. Because it won't show up on your page, on your account, so people won't really know that you relate to this, you know, the post or whatever, unless the post also shows up on their feed and then they see your comment. It's not that common. Or you don't really have to comment, you can just say, oh, like silent repost. I can say it to your closest friend or someone else like, oh okay, silent repost. An example would be, oh my god, have you seen this breakup edit? It's so relatable, silent repost."

Janna · United States

"be so for real is basically telling someone like okay like come on like be serious or like stop joking or like stop exaggerating or like like come on you're like overdoing it that's basically be so for real an example would be oh my god you just paid $30 for coffee be so for real"

Janna · United States

"we listen and we don't judge basically, what the words say it's basically a safe space to confess something that you've done, usually done in a joking manner but you still confess true things and it's a safe space where no one judges you and it's usually just weird things that a person would do or kinda odd but usually you won't really just admit to publicly it's kind of like a trend on tiktok pops every once in a while they just start we listen and we don't judge and then they say their confession after that usually kids have done it with their parents where kids admit to doing something behind their parents back and they use this trend as a way for their parents not to punish them an example would be we listen and we don't judge i still sleep with my nightlight on"