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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:00 am
by sparky_Archive
simmo wrote:And I can't believe that noone so far has proffered the magnificent:
Ecky Thump!
I understand from my part-Brummie dad that this is
Black Pudding. Which is a damn fine dish.
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Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:42 am
by fiery jack_Archive
An
erudite discussion on great Irish phrases by the country's finest minds.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:59 am
by ivan_Archive
is geebag irish or english?
such a vivid phrase
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:15 am
by jongoodwin_Archive
acklin wrote:Can someone explain what Duncan from the band "Snuff" meant, when he said the following on stage?
"There's a couple o' pig's ears down the ole' battlecruiser"
It just was totally out of any context.
Pigs Ears - beers
Battlecrusier - boozer (pub)
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:19 am
by Mose Varty-Seppanen_Archive
simmo wrote:All English exclamations where one more uncouth might otherwise use "Fuck!" or ungodly use "Jesus!" are amazing:
Cripes
Crikey etc.
By harry!
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:21 am
by Mose Varty-Seppanen_Archive
What the dickens....?
Quicker than you can say Jack Robinson!
You bleedin' cow's son!
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:22 am
by Adam CR
Arse over tit.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:23 am
by Rodabod_Archive
Titwank.
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:25 am
by Chapter Two_Archive
tits up
Americans and others! Your favorite British English phrases?
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:25 am
by scott_Archive
For me, it's either "right then!" or the ending of sentences with "yeah?" or "isn't it?" / "aren't they?" / "wasn't he?" or any other way of taking a statement and making it into a question begging for affirmation.