To be honest I've picked up a bad habit

I find it very disconcerting when people ask me 'What are you up to today?' - usually asked by junior in the hairdressers or girl at the checkout in supermarket - The answer is usually not much, but not always appropriate to discuss what you're actually doing i.e. mammogram! Also the phrase reminds me of asking child with guilty face 'What have you been up to?'

I hate "see you later" when your just leaving a shop from an assistant who you probably won't see again,also "Take Care" when they don't give a f---k .(alright from friends)

My ex husband used to say 'With the greatest respect..' when he blatantly wasn't being at all respectful

Jalima1108 What is disgusting?

A neighbour, after she had been to the shops , would say I have invested in some streaky bacon,never just bought it!

My gripe is 'I don't blame you' about something perfectly harmless, like having a hot bath.
Another is the expression 'in terms' - not 'in terms of' - which I often hear on the news on Radio 4, as in 'He stated, in terms....' I think it means 'explicitly'. I can't find it on Google. John Humphrys says it.

Life’s too short to be worrying so much. I’m sure we all use the cited phrases from time to time, or more frequently, often to be noticed in our posts. It doesn’t really bother me and I probably don’t even notice.

My cringe is 'life's too short'. Ugh!

"You know" after every sentence is my pet peeve! Some people use it after every few words. It drives me crazy.

I was listening to someone talking recently at a meeting. They used this phrase 110 times in 15-20 minutes.

Yes I did count the use of cos I was being anal. I find them boring in a speaker session. I knew they used this phrase alot so decided to count the use of. It drove me even more mad. Yes my fault I know.

There are others however "you know" is the worst

HaHaHa I do the same!!

Oh dear - basically I actually seem to say many of these but to be fair as I'm on my own most of the time so no one hears it - much. My husband seems to have started say etc etc all the time!

Coconut 'actually' is my bad habit right now. I just don't seem to be able to stop saying it!

I had a friend who said, 'You know what I mean?' after every (somewhat banal) statement. I felt like saying, 'Of course I know what you mean. An amoeba would understand that.' However, I knew the question was rhetorical and a verbal tic. Also, that my own conversation probably wouldn't bear much examination either!

In the days when doors were left open for visitors to just come in, my aunt used to come round, knock and say 'It's only me' as she came in. That used to annoy my mother

I find myself doing a little laugh at the end of a sentence. I seem to do it when a stranger talks to me, like I'm trying to appear really pleasant. I must stop it!!

Son sticking his head round the door saying, Allright?
and a husband who says ‘exactly’ when he can’t think of anything better to say.
Me-for goodness sake?

Camelot ??

Rosieroe
Don't change, I love an Irish accent! Especially the girl in 'Motherland' (Eire, I know) who mentions someone 'acting the giddy goat'!

My husband says "As I say..." when he patently doesn't!

As someone from Northern Ireland I have the habit of calling everything “wee”. I laughed when I rang to book theatre tickets in Belfast and was asked what my wee name was, and my wee phone number, did I have a wee card, then to give her the wee number etc. Then since then I have noticed my own tendency to use “wee”: “wee cup of tea”, “wee bun”, “wee dote (a darling)”, leaving a “wee message”, sending a “wee card”, ad infinitum. I’m not sure if it’s a bad habit or not but it’s so ingrained I doubt if I’ll ever be able to stop.

I used to have lunch fairly regularly with some friends where I lived before and DH would tell anyone who phoned or wanted me that I was out with the Actually Club.

Oh and "how are you" to be told "good", I was not enquiring as to their behaviour but their health!

"Howya doin" annoyed me so much I asked the builder "how am I doing what?"!!!

Oh yes Jalima and another Nessa saying ...crackin’

Even toddlers have their overworked phrases, “It’s not fair” being the most common.