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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.