88 very British phrases that will confuse anybody who didn’t grow up in the UK
Course Features
- Lectures 88
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Certificate No
- Assessments Yes
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british-slang
- A few sandwiches short of a picnic
- Anorak
- Bagsy
- Bee’s knees
- Bender
- Blinder
- Bloody or Bleeding
- Bob’s your uncle
- Bog-standard
- Boot
- Botch job
- Brolly
- Budge up
- Builder’s tea
- Butchers
- Cack-handed
- Cheeky
- Chinese whispers
- Chinwag
- Chockablock
- Chuffed
- Clanger
- Codswallop
- Cost a bomb
- Cream crackered
- Curtain twitcher
- Dench
- Dim
- Doddle
- Dog’s dinner
- Faff
- Fag
- Fit
- Flog
- Full Monty
- Full of beans
- Gaff
- Gallivanting
- Geezer
- Give me a tinkle on the blower
- Gobsmacked
- Gutted
- Half past
- Hank Marvin
- Innit
- Leg it
- Long
- Lurgy
- Making random words past-tense to mean drunk
- Miffed
- Minging
- Mint
- Mortal
- Nick
- On it like a car bonnet
- On the pull
- Over-egg the pudding
- Pants
- Par
- Pear-shaped
- Pea-souper
- Pinch punch first of the month
- Pissed
- Pop your clogs
- Poppycock
- Quids in
- Round
- Shambles
- Shirty
- Skew-whiff
- Skive
- Slumped
- Smarmy
- Sod’s law
- Spanner in the works
- Spend a penny
- Splash out
- Swot
- Take the biscuit
- Take the Mickey
- Tickety-boo
- Waffle
- Wally
- Wangle
- Whinge
- Wind your neck in
- Wind-up merchant
- Zonked