Strange British sayings
Oct 6th 2008, 8:00 pm
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Re: Strange British sayings
[QUOTE=dbd33;6850105] brassic QUOTE]
I haven't so much as a pot to piss in.
I haven't so much as a pot to piss in.
Oct 6th 2008, 8:04 pm
#47
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Re: Strange British sayings
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Oct 6th 2008, 8:21 pm
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Re: Strange British sayings
I fear that part of the reason why we never really settled in Canada is that my ex learned English in London from me and those of my ilk. Thus, to this day, she uses expressions such as butcher's, Brahmsed, grass, rub-a-dub and Hampton in heavily French accented English. She still gets enraged at the locals for failing to understand the colloquial idioms she worked so hard to master. It would of course have been the same had we the misfortune to move to Manchester rather than Toronto but there's no telling her that now.
Oct 6th 2008, 8:35 pm
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Re: Strange British sayings
I fear that part of the reason why we never really settled in Canada is that my ex learned English in London from me and those of my ilk. Thus, to this day, she uses expressions such as butcher's, Brahmsed, grass, rub-a-dub and Hampton in heavily French accented English. She still gets enraged at the locals for failing to understand the colloquial idioms she worked so hard to master. It would of course have been the same had we the misfortune to move to Manchester rather than Toronto but there's no telling her that now.
Oct 6th 2008, 10:34 pm
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Re: Strange British sayings
what about,
dont piss down my back and tell me its raining.
go play on the motorway..
dont piss down my back and tell me its raining.
go play on the motorway..
Oct 7th 2008, 12:01 am
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Re: Strange British sayings
Go play on the M4
Arsehole of the empire (most valley towns
)
a watched pot never boils
dead as a doornail
whose coat is that jacket
old age doesn't come by itself
Arsehole of the empire (most valley towns
)a watched pot never boils
dead as a doornail
whose coat is that jacket
old age doesn't come by itself
Oct 7th 2008, 12:33 am
#54
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Re: Strange British sayings
Colder than a witches tit.
Oct 7th 2008, 2:11 am
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Re: Strange British sayings
What about some Scottish sayings -
Skinny malinky longlegs;
Haud yer wheesht;
awayegoyabamye
and
awayanbileyerheid.
L
Skinny malinky longlegs;
Haud yer wheesht;
awayegoyabamye
and
awayanbileyerheid.
L
Oct 7th 2008, 8:35 am
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Re: Strange British sayings
You're all mad as a box of frogs.
Oct 7th 2008, 8:47 am
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Oct 7th 2008, 9:21 am
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Re: Strange British sayings
A tile short of a fireplace.
Happy as a pig in shit.
Thick as champ.
You'd get more craic at a wake.
Couldn't organise a sh@g at a whorehouse.
It's better than a poke in the eye.
One of my favourites (although sadly accurate
).....I look like I fell out of the ugly tree & hit all the branches on the way down.
Might do some work today....
Happy as a pig in shit.
Thick as champ.
You'd get more craic at a wake.
Couldn't organise a sh@g at a whorehouse.
It's better than a poke in the eye.
One of my favourites (although sadly accurate
).....I look like I fell out of the ugly tree & hit all the branches on the way down. Might do some work today....