British slang for a look Dekko - To have a look at something. chuffed very pleased Chuffed - You would be chuffed to bits if you were really pleased about something. gobsmacked completely shocked or astonished Gobsmacked - Amazed. wobbler something that wobbles Wobbler - To "throw a ...
Butchers- To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason "butchers" means a look even though it doesn't rhyme is because it is short for "butchers hook" and "hook" of course, does rhyme. C of E- The Ch...
Sir Laurence Olivieris said to have drawled, "Try acting, dear boy; it's easier." That's easy for him to say; after all, he was lauded almost from his school days as the greatest of British thesps, and a bronze-cast memorial to his Hamlet stands outside the National Theatre ...
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Question on a slang phrase Looking for the UK equivalent of "blown off". "Blown off" in this context meaning ditched, avoided, rudely left hanging. I was curious if there's a different phrase used in the UK, because all I've found on Google is that "blow off" in the UK actually ...
In the 1970s, fashion favored careless pronunciation and a language full of jargon, slang and “in” words, a great quantity of which couldn’t be understood by the outside world. What is considered modern and fashionable in Britain today is often not the kind of English taught in...
A month ago I had the pleasing experience of packing for Perth. In South African slang, ‘packing for Perth’ means immigrating to Australia. In the decade that followed thetransition to democracy, around800,000 mainly white South Africans left– some for New Zealand, Britain, and the United...
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George Ade was an America playwright, newspaper columnist and humorist whose greatest recognition was "Fables in Slang" (1899), a satire that explored the colloquial vernacular of America. Ade eventually succeeded in doing what he set out to do: Make America laugh. ...
"In like Flynn" is a slang phrase meaning "having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired". Why did Chase leave Zoey 101 in real life? Flynn—a grandson of golden-era screen legend Errol Flynn—left the showafter three seasons(Chase, in turn, was said to be stud...