What is your favourite British saying?
Aug 14th, 2006, 06:10 AM
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What is your favourite British saying?
What saying "warms the cockles of your heart"? - could it be the understatement in "mustn't grumble" or maybe the banter in a phrase like "a face like a dog's ass"
Aug 14th, 2006, 06:58 AM
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This one isn't really a saying, but a greeting (although I didn't know it at the time)
"you alright?"
All of DH's family kept asking me this; I had to ask DH if I looked tired or ill. He cracked up telling me that it's just the way they say "how are you?"
"you alright?"
All of DH's family kept asking me this; I had to ask DH if I looked tired or ill. He cracked up telling me that it's just the way they say "how are you?"
Aug 14th, 2006, 07:08 AM
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We normally just say "barking" these days.
Whence the (sometimes) careful gradation of mental states that are beyond Barking on the tube, with Upminster about as doolally as it's possible to be.
Whence the (sometimes) careful gradation of mental states that are beyond Barking on the tube, with Upminster about as doolally as it's possible to be.
Aug 14th, 2006, 08:10 AM
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"W...ker" is not polite! [not sure if OPs revelling in this phrase fully aware of this from what they have said!]
When we moved to Cornwall 9 years ago, it took me about 6 months to realise that "allright?" was not an acutal enquiry after my health. My kids and I now play a game where we have an entire conversation comprised entirely of this one word - try it!
A good Cornish one is "dreckly" - like "Manana" but with less sense of urgency.
When we moved to Cornwall 9 years ago, it took me about 6 months to realise that "allright?" was not an acutal enquiry after my health. My kids and I now play a game where we have an entire conversation comprised entirely of this one word - try it!
A good Cornish one is "dreckly" - like "Manana" but with less sense of urgency.
Aug 14th, 2006, 08:26 AM
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My daughter enjoyed the expression a little boy used when asking for his turn at a museum activity; "May I have a go at it?" And both of my kids loved the underwear advertisement that utilized the Underground warning "Mind the Gap."
