What is your favourite British saying?
Nov 22nd, 2009, 03:42 AM
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unless you've been sent by God to talk to a virgin>>>>>>
Didn't he knock her up? Give her egyptian flu? Put her in the pudding club? Get her up thre duff? Park a sprog?
Another trivia question: Only four angels have names (known to us), who?
Didn't he knock her up? Give her egyptian flu? Put her in the pudding club? Get her up thre duff? Park a sprog?
Another trivia question: Only four angels have names (known to us), who?
Nov 22nd, 2009, 08:55 AM
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To get this thread back on track...........Heard this a few years ago from a Londoner, when a work college walked into the factory looking very pale and ill......"Your whiter than a ginger birds arse".
Feb 23rd, 2021, 07:00 AM
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Clarification on the post. Fodors has been wacky for a week for me. It logged me out and could not even log back on till I did a reset of password. It would not let me do a password but go directly to articles. I got back on last night by a fluke. Anyway, this post was the first thing I saw, and have no clue why an old post would pop up like that out of the blue. Sorry but not as it is a golden oldie. Miss so many of those great posters.
Feb 26th, 2021, 07:50 AM
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So many great ones already listed. We've been watching almost exclusively British TV as of late; our favorites include (sooo many already mentioned):
He did a runner - meaning he escaped; snogging; brilliant; wanker; tosser; bloody - whatever; I'll put the kettle on - (we reckon tea soothes everything!); fu#@-all; bollocks; too right; love and pet. As in "Here's the thing, pet." Or " "I know it's hard, love." (Vera comes to mind.)
I didn't know Bob's your uncle was British. I say it all the time and said it to my East Coast husband who looked at me like I had three heads. Then one Christmas Eve we were watching Scrooge with Alistair Sim. Toward the end when he gives the maid a raise, she squeals: "Bob's Your Uncle!" My husband said in all the years he had watched the movie he could never figure out what she said. I caught it right away! ;-) We had a laugh about that one. So many great figures of speech and words among you Brits. I didn't know gobsmacked was yours, either. Having watched so much British TV and film over the years, I guess I just co-opted some of it!
He did a runner - meaning he escaped; snogging; brilliant; wanker; tosser; bloody - whatever; I'll put the kettle on - (we reckon tea soothes everything!); fu#@-all; bollocks; too right; love and pet. As in "Here's the thing, pet." Or " "I know it's hard, love." (Vera comes to mind.)
I didn't know Bob's your uncle was British. I say it all the time and said it to my East Coast husband who looked at me like I had three heads. Then one Christmas Eve we were watching Scrooge with Alistair Sim. Toward the end when he gives the maid a raise, she squeals: "Bob's Your Uncle!" My husband said in all the years he had watched the movie he could never figure out what she said. I caught it right away! ;-) We had a laugh about that one. So many great figures of speech and words among you Brits. I didn't know gobsmacked was yours, either. Having watched so much British TV and film over the years, I guess I just co-opted some of it!
Feb 28th, 2021, 06:57 AM
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I clicked on a page and read nukesafe's post 
Not a saying but can someone explain the use of "allotment" for me?
I was reading on a blog and (using context clues) thought it was a weekend farmers market. But then just read in a book and it sounded like someone's personal garden, next to the author's garden.
I googled to read the definition so understand the historical concept of allotments.
Does it have multiple meanings?
Not a saying but can someone explain the use of "allotment" for me?
I was reading on a blog and (using context clues) thought it was a weekend farmers market. But then just read in a book and it sounded like someone's personal garden, next to the author's garden.
I googled to read the definition so understand the historical concept of allotments.
Does it have multiple meanings?
Feb 28th, 2021, 10:04 AM
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Yes, I'm with bilbo. An allotment is anything that's allotted to you; the gardening meaning must have come from the initial allotment of a plot on the area of land designated for people to grow their own vegetables. Mostly there has been high demand for them, so to be allotted one can be quite a privilege - and perhaps the choice of word was meant to reflect that. Time was, priority went to people who didn't have their own garden, and they could often be quite a way from home (and probably all the more welcome for that).
Feb 28th, 2021, 11:28 PM
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