💬50 British Slang Words & Phrases You Need to Know💬
3️⃣1️⃣ Marbles
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“Have you lost your marbles?”
3️⃣2️⃣ Miffed
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“He got all miffed about the football match.”
3️⃣3️⃣ Nob
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“Some nob in a fancy car splashed me.”
3️⃣4️⃣ Numpty
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“You and your numpty friend should apologize.”
3️⃣5️⃣ Odds and Sods
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“You lot got first picks and left with nothing but odds and sods.”
3️⃣6️⃣ Old Bill, The Old Bill
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“Old Bill broke up the street fight.”
3️⃣7️⃣ Paddy
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“Don’t throw a paddy about your team losing.”
3️⃣8️⃣ Paste
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“You can’t just paste every Joe Bloggs who insults you.”
3️⃣9️⃣ Penny-dreadful
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“I read about alien abductions in the penny-dreadful.”
4️⃣0️⃣ Queer someone’s pitch
🍃 Meaning:
🍂 Example:
“I was about to close the deal until you queered my pitch.”
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3️⃣1️⃣ Marbles
🍃 Meaning:
Wit, intelligence, or good sense.🍂 Example:
“Have you lost your marbles?”
3️⃣2️⃣ Miffed
🍃 Meaning:
Upset or offended.🍂 Example:
“He got all miffed about the football match.”
3️⃣3️⃣ Nob
🍃 Meaning:
Person of high social status, snob.🍂 Example:
“Some nob in a fancy car splashed me.”
3️⃣4️⃣ Numpty
🍃 Meaning:
An incompetent or unwise person.🍂 Example:
“You and your numpty friend should apologize.”
3️⃣5️⃣ Odds and Sods
🍃 Meaning:
Equivalent to ‘odds and ends.’ Miscellaneous.
🍂 Example:
“You lot got first picks and left with nothing but odds and sods.”
3️⃣6️⃣ Old Bill, The Old Bill
🍃 Meaning:
A metaphor for a policeman, or the police in general.🍂 Example:
“Old Bill broke up the street fight.”
3️⃣7️⃣ Paddy
🍃 Meaning:
A temper tantrum.🍂 Example:
“Don’t throw a paddy about your team losing.”
3️⃣8️⃣ Paste
🍃 Meaning:
To hit, punch, or beat thoroughly.🍂 Example:
“You can’t just paste every Joe Bloggs who insults you.”
3️⃣9️⃣ Penny-dreadful
🍃 Meaning:
A cheap sensationalist magazine. Tabloid.🍂 Example:
“I read about alien abductions in the penny-dreadful.”
4️⃣0️⃣ Queer someone’s pitch
🍃 Meaning:
To spoil someone’s efforts.🍂 Example:
“I was about to close the deal until you queered my pitch.”
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⭕️ Phrasal verbs ⭕️
✨ ABIDE BY ✨
🍃Meaning:
🍂 Example:
• It is important to abide by the rules and regulations.
✨ ACCOUNT FOR ✨
🍃Meaning:
🍂 Example:
• I hope you can account for the money you spent on that expensive vacation.
✨ ADD UP ✨
🍃Meaning:
🍂 Example:
• Her explanations just do not add up.
✨ ADVISE AGAINST ✨
🍃Meaning:
🍂 Example:
• The old man advised me against walking alone after sunset.
✨ AGREE WITH ✨
🍃Meaning:
🍂 Example:
• Do you agree with the opinion that education should be free for all?
✨ ALLOW FOR ✨
🍃Meaning:
🍂 Example:
• We must allow for potential problems that can delay the completion of the project.
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✨ ABIDE BY ✨
🍃Meaning:
To abide by a rule is to respect it.🍂 Example:
• It is important to abide by the rules and regulations.
✨ ACCOUNT FOR ✨
🍃Meaning:
To account for is to explain.🍂 Example:
• I hope you can account for the money you spent on that expensive vacation.
✨ ADD UP ✨
🍃Meaning:
When explanations add up, they make sense.
🍂 Example:
• Her explanations just do not add up.
✨ ADVISE AGAINST ✨
🍃Meaning:
To advise against something is to recommend not doing it.
🍂 Example:
• The old man advised me against walking alone after sunset.
✨ AGREE WITH ✨
🍃Meaning:
When you agree with something, you have the same opinion.
🍂 Example:
• Do you agree with the opinion that education should be free for all?
✨ ALLOW FOR ✨
🍃Meaning:
To allow for something is to take that into consideration.
🍂 Example:
• We must allow for potential problems that can delay the completion of the project.
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✨Sell Someone Down The River✨
⭕️ Explanation:
⭕️ Example:
These companies all want to pretend like they're your friend, but they'll sell you down the river the moment it makes financial sense for them.
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⭕️ Explanation:
Betray someone ⭕️ Example:
These companies all want to pretend like they're your friend, but they'll sell you down the river the moment it makes financial sense for them.
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✨ For a song ✨
⭕️ Explanation:
⭕️ Example:
• All of the products left in the shop went for a song.
• This vase is very expensive in Denmark, but you can buy it for a song in China.
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⭕️ Explanation:
For very little money / very cheaply / very low price
(Informal)⭕️ Example:
• All of the products left in the shop went for a song.
• This vase is very expensive in Denmark, but you can buy it for a song in China.
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💠blow up (one's) phone💠
✨ Explanation:
✍🏾
✨ Example:
A: "Hey, your phone keeps lighting up!"
B: "Ugh, I wonder who's blowing up my phone."
A: "It's fine, I just texted him a few times."
B: "More like 15 times! Stop blowing up his phone!"
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✨ Explanation:
✍🏾
To call someone repeatedly and/or send someone a lot of text messages. ✨ Example:
A: "Hey, your phone keeps lighting up!"
B: "Ugh, I wonder who's blowing up my phone."
A: "It's fine, I just texted him a few times."
B: "More like 15 times! Stop blowing up his phone!"
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Speak or Talk? 🤔
But why shouldn't I ________ my mind? Didn't we agree to be frank with each other?
📕 talk
📗 speak
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But why shouldn't I ________ my mind? Didn't we agree to be frank with each other?
📕 talk
📗 speak
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Speak or Talk? 🤔
How much did this doctor seem to treat you with respect and not ________ down to you?
📕 talk
📗 speak
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How much did this doctor seem to treat you with respect and not ________ down to you?
📕 talk
📗 speak
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📚 Which one is correct? 🤔
✨ I'm very _____ to the idea of working from home.
♦️pulled
♠️taken
♥️pushed
♣️attracted
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✨ I'm very _____ to the idea of working from home.
♦️pulled
♠️taken
♥️pushed
♣️attracted
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💢 keep off 💢
✍🏾Meaning:
⭕️ For example:
• keep off sth
🔺The sign says "Keep off the grass", so we'd better stay on the path.
• keep sth off sth
🔺We were having a picnic when my wife told the kids to keep the flies off their food or they could get sick.
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✍🏾Meaning:
to not go on something, or to stop something or someone from going on something
⭕️ For example:
• keep off sth
🔺The sign says "Keep off the grass", so we'd better stay on the path.
• keep sth off sth
🔺We were having a picnic when my wife told the kids to keep the flies off their food or they could get sick.
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✨ Adverbs and Adjectives Combinations ✨
و ختاماً لموضوعنا .. يلا نتعرف على أكثر المرصوفات استخداماً و تداولنا في اللغة الانجليزية و غالباً ما نسمعها و نقرأها!! 🙂👍🏻
List of useful adverb adjective collocations in English with examples:
🔳Ruggedly handsome
▫️More important, my wife was above ground chatting with a ruggedly handsome tour guide.
🔳Scared stiff
▫️I’m not scared stiff, I’ll be anything but scared.
🔳Strongly opposed
▫️I’m strongly opposed to capital punishment.
🔳“Very, extremely, incredibly, terribly, awfully, fairly, a bit, quite, really + weak/good/surprised/angry
▫️Housing prices are still extremely weak.
🔳Actively involved
▫️He’s been actively involved in politics for 30 years.
🔳Badly hurt
▫️He was badly hurt.
🔳Blissfully unaware
▫️Harry was blissfully unaware that he was in danger.
🔳Blissfully ignorant
▫️While her husband had affairs with other women, she lived in blissful ignorance.
🔳Completely amazed
▫️Alaudin started telling me his father’s story and I was completely amazed.
🔳Completely different
▫️That’s a completely different subject.
🔳Completely fantastic
▫️Completely fantastic and interesting and complicated things!
🔳Completely strong
▫️“I feel physically completely strong and emotionally completely exhausted,” she said
🔳Dead tired
▫️I am dead tired.
🔳Drop-dead gorgeous
▫️For me, they bring to mind the drop-dead gorgeous mountains.
🔳Fiercely competitive
▫️Companies have been fiercely competitive since.
🔳Fully aware
▫️I am fully aware that there are serious problems.
🔳Happily married
▫️I’m happily married, with children.
🔳Painfully shy
▫️When I was a kid I was painfully shy, so it was hard for me to make friends.
🔳Painfully thin
▫️She looked painfully thin.
🔳Perfectly normal
▫️It’s perfectly normal to feel like this.
🔳Pretty good
▫️Your script was pretty good but I have some suggestions.
🔳Quietly confident
▫️I’m quietly confident that Arsenal can get a result.
🔳Quite good
▫️I am quite good at various activities, such as painting and photography.
🔳Quite sure
▫️Are you quite sure she won’t mind?
🔳Readily available
▫️Boats are readily available to visitors.
🔳Reasonably happy
▫️She seems reasonably happy in her new job.
🔳Reasonably priced
▫️The apartments are reasonably priced.
🔳Reasonably well
▫️The hostages had been reasonably well cared for.
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و ختاماً لموضوعنا .. يلا نتعرف على أكثر المرصوفات استخداماً و تداولنا في اللغة الانجليزية و غالباً ما نسمعها و نقرأها!! 🙂👍🏻
List of useful adverb adjective collocations in English with examples:
🔳Ruggedly handsome
▫️More important, my wife was above ground chatting with a ruggedly handsome tour guide.
🔳Scared stiff
▫️I’m not scared stiff, I’ll be anything but scared.
🔳Strongly opposed
▫️I’m strongly opposed to capital punishment.
🔳“Very, extremely, incredibly, terribly, awfully, fairly, a bit, quite, really + weak/good/surprised/angry
▫️Housing prices are still extremely weak.
🔳Actively involved
▫️He’s been actively involved in politics for 30 years.
🔳Badly hurt
▫️He was badly hurt.
🔳Blissfully unaware
▫️Harry was blissfully unaware that he was in danger.
🔳Blissfully ignorant
▫️While her husband had affairs with other women, she lived in blissful ignorance.
🔳Completely amazed
▫️Alaudin started telling me his father’s story and I was completely amazed.
🔳Completely different
▫️That’s a completely different subject.
🔳Completely fantastic
▫️Completely fantastic and interesting and complicated things!
🔳Completely strong
▫️“I feel physically completely strong and emotionally completely exhausted,” she said
🔳Dead tired
▫️I am dead tired.
🔳Drop-dead gorgeous
▫️For me, they bring to mind the drop-dead gorgeous mountains.
🔳Fiercely competitive
▫️Companies have been fiercely competitive since.
🔳Fully aware
▫️I am fully aware that there are serious problems.
🔳Happily married
▫️I’m happily married, with children.
🔳Painfully shy
▫️When I was a kid I was painfully shy, so it was hard for me to make friends.
🔳Painfully thin
▫️She looked painfully thin.
🔳Perfectly normal
▫️It’s perfectly normal to feel like this.
🔳Pretty good
▫️Your script was pretty good but I have some suggestions.
🔳Quietly confident
▫️I’m quietly confident that Arsenal can get a result.
🔳Quite good
▫️I am quite good at various activities, such as painting and photography.
🔳Quite sure
▫️Are you quite sure she won’t mind?
🔳Readily available
▫️Boats are readily available to visitors.
🔳Reasonably happy
▫️She seems reasonably happy in her new job.
🔳Reasonably priced
▫️The apartments are reasonably priced.
🔳Reasonably well
▫️The hostages had been reasonably well cared for.
#common_combinations
#adverb_adjective
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