14 Millennial Phrases That Are Getting Old And We Are Tired Of Hearing Them

Millennials are always coming up with some new phrase to confuse older generations. While we typically bear most phrases, some are getting too old and becoming a little annoying. Here are some millennial phrases we can live without:

Adulting

Millennials have been using adulting to describe actions and responsibilities associated with being an adult. While it sounded cute initially, saying you’re adulting is just tooting your own horn. Why can’t we just say we’re being adults?

I did a thing

We all know a friend who’ll say this before revealing some of the craziest decisions they’ve ever made. And let’s be honest; most revelations that follow this phrase rarely sound good and only come off as attention-seeking.

Basic

Calling something ‘basic’ is relating it to mainstream and stereotypical trends. Most millennials use basic when disagreeing with someone’s style and preferences. The slang has long become rude and encourages negativity.

I can’t even

We’ve all muttered this when we’re overwhelmed or can’t handle our emotions, but this saying has gotten too old. It sounds vague and incomplete, too, so how about we stick to being genuine and just saying we can’t handle it?

Feels

Saying something is in the ‘feels’ was once a way to express nostalgia and convey your emotional reaction to something. But now, this phrase has overshadowed most compliments, so it no longer delivers the praise we aimed for.

Extra

There’s no better way to say it: extra is extra. The word introduced to express something over-the-top and overly dramatic has become what it swore to make fun of, and now it sounds like an insult anytime we try to use it.

Snatched

This is one of the few compliments that never made much sense. Saying someone looks snatched is meant to convey that they look amazing, but it’s just confusing. If you used this as a compliment with boomers, they’d assume someone got kidnapped.

Savage

There was once a time when everyone used the word savage in witty situations. But the world has evolved since then; we’ve seen it as a compliment, a reaction to honesty, and an insult, which is precisely why we need to stop using it altogether.

Clap back

Aiming for a more literal sense, clapback was used by most high schoolers and teenagers when responding sharply with a comeback. That makes it annoying; clapback is just another word for comeback, so why not just resort to the older one?

Bae

We admit it: we all use bae with our loved ones. For “before anyone else,” bae has been a romantic word for a long time, but it’s a bit too cute and overshadows a simpler nickname for your loved ones: babe.

High-key

High-key means something we strongly and openly feel, so naturally, we’ve used this term a lot. But, the overuse of high-key is why we can’t bear it anymore. Hearing adults say high-key feels annoying and lazy now.

I have the receipts

This started as a way to say we’ve got proof to back up our words. But people use this phrase so much that it loses its credibility and instead sounds like you’re being unnecessarily blamed for something.

Sorry not sorry

‘Sorry, not sorry’ is a classic non-apology wrapped up in a smirk. It started as playful, but now it just skips the warmth of a real “I’m sorry.”

This is everything

It literally means ‘it is what it is,’ and it’s nothing more or less than what you see at that moment. People use it mainly to end a conversation or a task.