Every language has its own slang but the Brits take the cake. So before you sit down for a chinwag at the local pub, let #TedLasso and #Shrinking star Brett Goldstein guide you through some of England’s cheekiest sayings. #Colbert #BrettGoldstein #Slang #England
I also did not recognise the slang he did not recognise. I call bad research
ReplyThe story of Fanny Adam is so horrible. Don’t goggle it. Poor child
ReplyThe real and most common SE England slang for this totally bogus “all bum and parsley” expression would be “all mouth and trousers” – preferably pronounced “mahf ‘n’ trahzers”.
ReplyEr, he made a bit of a clanger out of a couple of those.
ReplyFluff? No – can someone tell Americans what the British word for fart is? It’s a TRUMP!
Reply0:21 “Did you just fluff?” I’ve never heard this one spoken by anyone here!
Reply2:11 “You’re all bum and parsley” – I think that this is Scottish slang specifically, but I’ve never heard it spoken either!
In my travels around this wee island my favourite slang word comes from the West Country and its “Gurt”
ReplyWhen I lived there for a spell I quickly learned it’s a word used to say something was better than expected. For example ” I went out last night, met this girl and she was gurt gorgeous”
Guff not fluff surely
ReplyAs a Brit, I can confirm nobody in Britain has ever used ‘fluff’ for fart
ReplyI’m right chuffed and laughed so hard I trumped. Ah well, bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your Aunt. (married to a Brit)
ReplyBut did he have “eyes like a shithouse rat”?
ReplyYeah, avoid the fluffy farts and bottom parsley. The rest is sound.
ReplyAnorak is just really old.
Fluff—- Fart
ReplyI knew what “Bob’s your uncle” translated to, but am curious about it’s origin. Any anoraks out there?
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