Claire Armitstead, The Guardian ‘Daljit’s Poetry is an espresso shot of thought’ Arifa Akbar, The Independent ‘For all the slang and swagger, this bold new version of the Hindu epic keeps its moral core int
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cheating sportsmen, parents aping the style and slang of teen-agers and a false chumminess from doctors and other professions point to a crisis in manners."Stress, moral erosion and the decline of family values are usually blamed for the growing inability of people to get along with one an...
Jimmy- Actually short for Jimmy Riddle. i.e. I'm off for a Jimmy Riddle. This is Cockney rhyming slang for piddle! John Thomas- Yet another word for a blokes willy! I always felt a bit sorry for people who were actually called John Thomas. What were their parents thinking? Jolly- Yo...
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Slang in America: "Language in the largest sense ... is really the greatest of studies." Street Yarn: "Come and walk in New York streets." Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) British author Virginia Woolf may be best known for her modernist classics "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse." But...
To grass in British slang isindeed to inform on a person to the authorities; a grass is an informer. ... We've since had grasser in the same sense; in the 1970s supergrass appeared for a police informer who implicated a large number of people at one go. ...
Slang/chat, popular culture Business, finance, etc. See other definitions of BG Other Resources: We have 61 other meanings of BG in our Acronym Attic Link/Page Citation Abbreviation Database Surfer « Previous Next » Boring Game Boston Globe (newspaper) Botanical Garden Bowling Green (Kentu...
Python, Benny Hill, and Keeping Up Appearances to name a few that have become quite popular outside of the United Kingdom. At times, however, such humour can seem puzzling to non-British speakers of English (references to English slang terms or people, who are unknown internationally for ...
There are many underrated British crime dramas, but Minder (the title, “Minder,” refers to UK slang for right-hand-man) managed to appeal to audiences both in and out of the UK because of its likable antihero, Terry McCann. A former boxer, Terry spends most of his time in the series...