Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?

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"I'll knock you up in the morning."

Dodgy. As in, "There are some dodgy blokes working at Guitar Centre."

"He's talking shite, mate."

"Daft as a brush."

"I'm a jazz saxophonist." (Possibly Scottish and not English at all)

Bollocks. "There was just one problem with this plan..."
"What was that?"
"It was bollocks." Final episode of Black Adder series IV.

Cheeky. "She's a good employee - not cheeky, does what I tell her to do."

Cunt (in the sense of motherfucker) "There are some real racist cunts around here." - Black man from London commenting on nationalist skinheads in the Czech Republic.

"She just needs a shag, mate." -on an irate department store checkout lady.

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