diff --git a/argv/src/lib.rs b/argv/src/lib.rs
index 5e0f1d091..c407dc164 100644
--- a/argv/src/lib.rs
+++ b/argv/src/lib.rs
@@ -1291,6 +1291,71 @@ pub fn os_string_from_bytes(value: Vec<u8>) -> Result<OsString, Vec<u8>> {
     }
 }
 
+/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`], built out of line.
+///
+/// Cold and never inlined on purpose: this is the failure path of every value
+/// conversion in every generated `build`, and inlining it there is what made
+/// those functions large.
+#[cold]
+#[inline(never)]
+pub(crate) fn invalid_value_error<'t, 'v>(
+    name: &'t str,
+    value: String,
+    reason: String,
+) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
+    Error::InvalidValue(Box::new(InvalidValue {
+        name,
+        value,
+        reason,
+    }))
+}
+
+/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for a word that was not UTF-8.
+///
+/// The error half of what a generated `build` does per text field: the check stays
+/// inline at the field, and this — the lossy rendering and the allocations — lives
+/// here once instead of once per field.
+#[cold]
+#[inline(never)]
+pub fn invalid_utf8_value<'t, 'v>(name: &'t str, bad: std::string::FromUtf8Error) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
+    invalid_value_error(
+        name,
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(bad.as_bytes()).into_owned(),
+        bad.utf8_error().to_string(),
+    )
+}
+
+/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for a value whose type would not build from it.
+///
+/// Takes the reason as `&dyn Display` so one copy serves every `FromStr` error type.
+#[cold]
+#[inline(never)]
+pub fn invalid_parsed_value<'t, 'v>(
+    name: &'t str,
+    value: String,
+    reason: &dyn std::fmt::Display,
+) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
+    invalid_value_error(name, value, reason.to_string())
+}
+
+/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for a word that is not one of a value enum's choices.
+#[cold]
+#[inline(never)]
+pub fn invalid_choice_value<'t, 'v>(name: &'t str, value: String) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
+    invalid_value_error(name, value, String::from("not one of the declared values"))
+}
+
+/// One [`Error::InvalidValue`] for bytes the platform cannot hold in a path.
+#[cold]
+#[inline(never)]
+pub fn invalid_os_value<'t, 'v>(name: &'t str, bytes: Vec<u8>) -> Error<'t, 'v> {
+    invalid_value_error(
+        name,
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(&bytes).into_owned(),
+        "this platform cannot hold these bytes in a path".to_string(),
+    )
+}
+
 /// A single-pass parse over `argv`.
 ///
 /// Created with [`Parser::new`] and driven with [`Parser::next_event`].
diff --git a/derive/src/codegen.rs b/derive/src/codegen.rs
index 86e8e76e5..703b70b0d 100644
--- a/derive/src/codegen.rs
+++ b/derive/src/codegen.rs
@@ -4719,18 +4719,7 @@ fn field_value(field: &Field, omitter: Option<&TokenStream>) -> TokenStream {
                     ::std::result::Result::Ok(__usage_os) => #build(__usage_os),
                     ::std::result::Result::Err(__usage_bytes) => {
                         return ::std::result::Result::Err(
-                            usage_argv::Error::InvalidValue(::std::boxed::Box::new(
-                                usage_argv::InvalidValue {
-                                    name: #name,
-                                    value: ::std::string::String::from_utf8_lossy(
-                                        &__usage_bytes,
-                                    )
-                                    .into_owned(),
-                                    reason: ::std::string::ToString::to_string(
-                                        &"this platform cannot hold these bytes in a path",
-                                    ),
-                                },
-                            )),
+                            usage_argv::invalid_os_value(#name, __usage_bytes),
                         );
                     }
                 }
@@ -4809,16 +4798,7 @@ fn field_value(field: &Field, omitter: Option<&TokenStream>) -> TokenStream {
                 ::std::result::Result::Ok(text) => text,
                 ::std::result::Result::Err(bad) => {
                     return ::std::result::Result::Err(
-                        usage_argv::Error::InvalidValue(::std::boxed::Box::new(
-                            usage_argv::InvalidValue {
-                                name: #name,
-                                value: ::std::string::String::from_utf8_lossy(
-                                    bad.as_bytes(),
-                                )
-                                .into_owned(),
-                                reason: ::std::string::ToString::to_string(&bad.utf8_error()),
-                            },
-                        )),
+                        usage_argv::invalid_utf8_value(#name, bad),
                     );
                 }
             }
@@ -4830,15 +4810,7 @@ fn field_value(field: &Field, omitter: Option<&TokenStream>) -> TokenStream {
                     ::std::option::Option::Some(parsed) => parsed,
                     ::std::option::Option::None => {
                         return ::std::result::Result::Err(
-                            usage_argv::Error::InvalidValue(::std::boxed::Box::new(
-                                usage_argv::InvalidValue {
-                                    name: #name,
-                                    value: __usage_text,
-                                    reason: ::std::string::String::from(
-                                        "not one of the declared values",
-                                    ),
-                                },
-                            )),
+                            usage_argv::invalid_choice_value(#name, __usage_text),
                         );
                     }
                 }
@@ -4853,13 +4825,7 @@ fn field_value(field: &Field, omitter: Option<&TokenStream>) -> TokenStream {
                 ::std::result::Result::Ok(parsed) => parsed,
                 ::std::result::Result::Err(reason) => {
                     return ::std::result::Result::Err(
-                        usage_argv::Error::InvalidValue(::std::boxed::Box::new(
-                            usage_argv::InvalidValue {
-                                name: #name,
-                                value: __usage_text,
-                                reason: ::std::string::ToString::to_string(&reason),
-                            },
-                        )),
+                        usage_argv::invalid_parsed_value(#name, __usage_text, &reason),
                     );
                 }
             }