>You missed out "to be quite honest with you". People say that for no reason, in confabs where honesty is not an issue.

My memory is not as good as it used to be.

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>BTW I watched a docu the other night, after starting this thread, about prince Charles in his 61st year. I counted he used "at the end of the day" at least 5 times in the 1 hour show. In the time it took me to write that last sentence my colleague behind me said it twice on the phone to a customer (he uses all these all day, every day). Ironically he also said "ultimately" in the same sentence as "at the end of the day".
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>Is it any wonder my pedant nerves jangle?

I do not think you are pedant to bring forward this topic, I was just kidding, and I know there are a lot of people that shares your hate of overused cliches. In my case, I do not watch documentaries about Prince Charles, just in case :)

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>Also, just the other week it was on national news here about a survey of the top cliches that drive us nutzoid, and all the above are in it.

That makes you an informed pedant :)