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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:46 pm
by rayj_Archive
'avin' a chin wag...
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:54 pm
by Rodabod_Archive
cjh wrote: away an' shite.
Aye, yer arse.
Mr. Chimp wrote:"Ge' wif it ye fookin doss cunt"
I to'd ye tae mind the fuckin' cerds.
Another favourite of mine:
He's a bit of a Harry Hoofter.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:51 pm
by mrdfnle_Archive
" I don't fuckin' like wee
brown dogs"
I just limped slowly through
Boiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre. Brilliant.
I need suggestions for the next book cause
Boiling is right in the middle.
also,
junketa wrote:
In L.A. people just scream "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY, MOTHERFUCKER. FUCK." Then the cautious driver pulls out a gun and fires as you pass him.
this is about par for the course.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:56 am
by daniel robert chapman_Archive
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:05 am
by chairman_hall_Archive
Yorkshire day???
Whatever next?
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:18 am
by Clownhunt_Archive
Pants = lame 'the new Britney album is pants'
do one = begone, sling yer hook
what a swizz / what a gyp = what a rip-off
giving me gyp = giving troubles 'my piles (chalfonts) are giving me gyp today'
giving me the right arsehole = getting on the nerves 'this ProTools rig is giving me the right arsehole - CUUUUNNNTT!!'
hadaway and shite, the lot o'yez! = begone and excrete, all of you
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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:23 am
by chairman_hall_Archive
Clownhunt wrote:hadaway and shite, the lot o'yez! = begone and excrete, all of you
Moreover = I don't agree
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:28 am
by fantasmatical thorr_Archive
a swift half = in the pub all night
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:30 am
by Clownhunt_Archive
chairman_hall wrote:Clownhunt wrote:hadaway and shite, the lot o'yez! = begone and excrete, all of you
Moreover = I don't agree
bugger! have i been using this innacurately all along?
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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:38 am
by chairman_hall_Archive
Clownhunt wrote:chairman_hall wrote:Clownhunt wrote:hadaway and shite, the lot o'yez! = begone and excrete, all of you
Moreover = I don't agree
bugger! have i been using this innacurately all along?
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No, both are the same thing really.
Example A:
"Sunderland are a great football team"
"hadaway and shite"
Example B:
"Would you like to listen to this Pearl Jam album?"
"hadaway and shite"
The phrase can be used in both instances.