Things Americans don't say
- and all - (anawl - as well)
- any joy ?
- as well - (too)
- bird - (meaning woman - Americans apply it to old ladies)
- bleedin
- bloke
- bob's yer uncle
- bog
- bugger
- bugger-all
- bollocks
- bollocks-up, to
- cheeky
- cheers (meaning thanks)
- chuffed
- clear off, to
- cotton on, to
- cross - (angry)
- dead cert
- do a runner, to
- doddle
- dodgy
- dozy
- drop a clanger, to
- fair-do's
- fuck-all
- full of beans - (in America means "full of shit")
- get a place on a course, to - (you'd get into it, and wouldnt call it a course)
- getting on a bit, to be
- geezer - (meaning bloke - in the US it means old man)
- gob
- gobsmacked
- gone for a burton
- gormless
- guv
- have a go, to
- have you got - (do you have)
- have the hump, to
- have a barny, to - (meaning have a heated argument/fight)
- hoover, to
- hosepipe - hose or pipe, not both
- jim jams - (meaning pyjamas)
- keep your hair on
- knacker
- knackered
- knackers-yard
- luv - (or "love" as in "morning luv, I've come to fix the washing machine. Is the kettle on ?")
- ready to collect
- packed up
- polyfilla - (it's "spackle")
- queue
- range, a new - (as in "sainsburys has come out with a new range of sandwiches")
- row - (meaning argument)
- scarper
- scheme - (in the sense of a system)
- smallest room, the - (the bathroom/restroom/bog/shitter)
- snowed under - (in the busy sense)
- spend a penny - (meaning to urinate)
- stroppy
- take the mick/mickey/michael/piss, to
- tastes of - (would taste like)
- tower blocks
- turn up for the books (or a "turn up")
- twat, to
- twig, to
- what's he on about ?
- whilst
- whinge
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