Things have a nasty 'habit of not turning out' the way you expect them to. [=things often do not turn out the way you expect them to]
He reached into his pocket for his keys 'by/from force of habit'. [=he did it without thinking because it is what he usually does]
I'm 'not in the habit of' making predictions, but I don't think there's much doubt about who will win this election.
(..) or something. which is insanely expensive. Is this right? I just say whatever to the video log? Yeah, we gotta get in the habit of documenting everything. You know, what we see, what we feel. - It's all part of the science. - And good science is good observation. All right. Whatever. So... (..)2009 Avatar