Yep and here's Cole just shrinking away from Peridot. Sparks are literally flying, he doesn't want to be here in the slightest. And it's an expression? How was he supposed to know that! He doesn't know most expressions to begin with!

"I'm not babbling," Cole states. That he's 100% certain about. "I know what I say and what I mean. You just don't understand. Most people here don't."

Something which obviously annoys and saddens him more than Cole will ever admit.