The last place...

There are some things that strike me as redundant in our language.  For example, when you are having difficulty finding something, people will often tell you "it's always in the last place you look". Well of course it is!  If you keep looking for something after you have found it, there is something seriously wrong.  You may look in one place, or one hundred and one places for your misplaced keys or phone or whatever.  But generally speaking once you have found it, you stop looking.  By definition it was it he last place you looked.  For organised people, that is quite often also the first.  For me it is usually somewhere between first and fiftieth.  But I stop looking once I have found it, so it is redundant to tell me it was in the last place I looked.

And don't get me started on those who helpfully ask where it was last while you are searching...