Pet Peeve #2380
As annoying phrases go this has to be close to the top of the tree. Oh now you’re being honest? So am I to assume that the ten minutes of conversation either side of ‘to be honest mate’ was all a pack of lies? On a related note if you are some sort of captain of industry journeying to work on the bus and you’ve already dropped ‘to be honest mate’ a couple of times into your super important, mega-loud conversation don’t compound your woes my using the words….’conference call’.
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
As annoying overheard phone conversations go, have you noticed the ubiquitous use of the word literally as a conversational stepping stone to buy time between words. It literally drives me insane.