What is your favourite British saying?
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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"
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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?"
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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.
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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."