In any way shape or form

[AlwaysHopeful]

What's wrong with the phrease "at all"? Why fill the air with unnecessary words? I'm sitting at my desk in an open office playing bullshit bingo with all the overheard conversations of my colleagues.

What phrases drive you nuts?

At the end of the day....

But at the end of the day, some people have very redundant speech!

Personally, in my opinion......of course if it's your opinion it is personal. And personally I.... Really when you say I it is personal!

No brainer

Thinking out of the box

Blue sky thinking

Close of play

Grrr - the above make my blood boil!

(Good thread by the way :))

I find myself saying 'to be honest...' all the time and I annoy myself!!!

As if I'm implying that everything else I say is not honest

meet WITH

You don't need the with. Horrible Americanism

When people say "right" at the end of every other sentence. For example

"I was walk down the road right"

So so annoying.

BodaciousTatas - I read your post in an accent! I won't say which one as I don't want to offend anyone. But maybe some of the phrases we use are regional? Right?

Moving forward..............

(actually the way you are re-arranging things at the minute mean that we're moving backward, gits! Sorry bad morning at work)

'like'

That's like really bad!

It is rather a common phrase round here newmummy. Along with innit.

Any comment where people promise to give 150%, 200% makes me furious - it's impossible to do anymore than 100% whatever the situation

'Giving 110%'

Mathamatical bollocks

'Basically.....'

So you realise that you have just spouted a load of shite but still feel the need to break it down for stupid littl ol me?

'Efficiency Savings'

Fooking cutbacks

Oops crosspost

' Innit ' at the end of a sentance - drives me nuts.

i used to get irrationally angry at "going forward" it represented the wanky corporate speak that I knew my life was about to be littered with,
now I find myself using it mainly because its means what I want to say where sometimes in the future does not apply

"my bad".

Since when does this mean anything?

Grrr!

No offence, but....

"end of"

"Sorry, but......."
If you have to apologise before you've even said it, doesn't that tell you something?

I get really wound up by "I'm excited FOR my holiday" when people mean "I'm excited ABOUT my holiday".

"Can you connect with John?"

........Or I could just call or email him

The presenter on Helicopter Heroes (I'll watch anything when I'm ironing) who said yesterday that a couple in an overturned car were "trapped and couldn't get out".

Oddly enough, I had always thought that trapped meant "can't get out"

I seem to have picked up a habit of starting most sentences with "to be fair"

I'm even annoying myself

Washngo, I hate that. It's a common Facebook annoyance.