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💎 Trash

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✨ 10 Common English Slang Terms✨


🍃 Be there or be square 🍃

▪️This means that you should attend an event or you will be considered an outsider

🔸 You’re invited to my birthday party tonight. Be there or be square!

🍃 Beats me 🍃

▪️ This means that you don’t know something. The emphasis is on “me”

🔸 Beats me why he wants such a big car.

🍃 Bed of roses 🍃

▪️ A luxurious situation or an easy life. (This is commonly used in a negative way)

🔸 Life isn’t always a bed of roses, you know.

🍃 Beef about 🍃

▪️ This means that one complains about someone or something

🔸 They’re always beefing about something.

🍃 Big mouth 🍃

▪️ A person who talks too much or too loudly; someone who tells secrets

🔸 He went and told them the whole story. He’s such a big mouth.

🍃 Beef something up 🍃

▪️ This means to add strength or substance to something

🔸 We need to beef the campaign up.

🍃 Beemer 🍃

▪️ A slang term for a BMW

🔸 That’s his white Beemer convertible over there.

🍃 Cut a deal 🍃

▪️ To arrange a deal or to seal a bargain

🔸 In they end, they had to cut a deal with the Communinsts.

🍃 Flip side 🍃

▪️ The “other” side of something, such as an argument

🔸 The flip side of the treatment is that it can make patients feel very tired.

🍃 Jack something up 🍃

▪️ This means to raise the price of something

🔸 They’re just interested in jacking up their profit margins.

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🍃🍂USEFUL SPOKEN PHRASES with “ beat “🍂🍃


🍁(it) beats me🍁

🔰used to say that you do not know something, or cannot understand or explain it:

✨ ‘What’s he saying?’ ‘Beats me!’

🍁beat it! 🍁

🔰used to tell someone to leave at once, because they are annoying you or should not be there

✨ The big guy turned to me and said, "Beat it, kid – nobody wants you here."

🍁can you beat that/it?🍁

🔰used to show that you are surprised or annoyed by something:

✨ They’ve got eight children! Can you beat that?

🍁beat your brains out🍁

🔰to think about something very hard and for a long time:

✨ I’ve been beating my brains out all week trying to finish this essay.

🍁if you can’t beat 'em, join 'em🍁

🔰used when you decide to take part in something even though you disapprove of it, because everyone else is doing it and you cannot stop them

✨ It was the toughest football team we'd ever faced, and we'd had enough. Finally, we gave up and said, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"

🍁beat the rap🍁

🔰American English informal =to avoid being punished for something you have done

✨ The youngsters were caught shoplifting, but somehow they were able to beat the rap.

🍁beat time 🍁

🔰to make regular movements or sounds to show the speed at which music should be played:

✨ a conductor beating time with his baton

🍁beat a path/track🍁

🔰to make a path by walking over an area of land

✨ We beat a path/track through the undergrowth.

🍁to beat the band🍁

🔰American English informal =in large amounts or with great force:

✨ It’s raining to beat the band.

🍁beat the heat🍁

🔰American English informal =to make yourself cooler:

✨ Fresh lemonade is a great way to beat the heat.

🍁beat your breast🍁

🔰literary to show clearly that you are very upset or sorry about something

✨ There's no point in beating your breast about losing the money - you won't get it back.

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💬50 British Slang Words & Phrases You Need to Know💬


1️⃣ All mouth and no trousers

🍃Meaning:

All talk, no action, i.e. Braggadocio.

🍂Example:

“Don’t listen to him. He’s all mouth and no trousers.”

2️⃣ Argy-bargy

🍃Meaning :

An argument or heated confrontation.

🍂Example:

“I’m not interested in getting into an argy-bargy over it.”

3️⃣ Bang to rights

🍃Meaning:

Equivalent of ‘dead to rights.’ Caught in the act. Caught red-handed.

🍂Example:

“Police caught Jim Bang to rights outside the bookie’s.”

4️⃣ Bent as a nine-bob note

🍃Meaning:

Metaphor for dishonesty or corruption that references the nine-schilling (bob) note, which does not exist and must therefore be counterfeit.

🍂Example:

“That street vendor selling watches is bent as a nine-bob note.”

5️⃣ Blinding

🍃Meaning :

An adjective for excellence.

🍂Example:

“The Prime Minister gave a blinding inauguration speech.”

6️⃣ Chuffed

🍃Meaning:

To be very pleased about something.

🍂Example:

“Reginald was chuffed about the football match.”

7️⃣ Conk

🍃Meaning:

A blow to the head or nose.

🍂Example:

“He conked his head on the doorframe on his way out.”

8️⃣ Corker

🍃Meaning:

Someone or something that/who is outstanding. A standout.

🍂Example:

“Great job, Jim. You’re a real corker.”

9️⃣ Do one’s nut

🍃Meaning:

To become enraged. Presumably a reference to doing an impression of a madman (nut).

🍂Examples:

“I gave him the news, and a he did his nut.

“When I gave Reginald the news, he did his nut, and went home.”

1️⃣0️⃣ Damp Squib

🍃Meaning:

Something that fails on all counts. Reference to small explosive charges that fail when wet.

🍂Example:

“It looks like the new midfielder is a damp squib.”

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🍂 SKINT 🍂

• Meaning:
Having no money. To be broke.

• Example:
Sorry mate, I can't come out - I'm skint!

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💬50 British Slang Words & Phrases You Need to Know💬


1️⃣1️⃣ Doofer

🍃 Meaning:

An unnamed object. Thing, thingamajig, whatchamacallit.

🍂 Example:

“What is that doofer?”

1️⃣2️⃣ Earwig

🍃 Meaning:

To eavesdrop.

🍂 Example:

“Don’t earwig on my personal phone calls.”

1️⃣3️⃣ Eating Irons

🍃 Meaning:

Cutlery, eating utensils.

🍂 Example:

“Do we have any clean eating irons?”

1️⃣4️⃣ Fortnight

🍃 Meaning:

Very common British slang term for a period of two weeks.

🍂 Example:

“I’ll be back in a fortnight to check on you.”

1️⃣5️⃣ Fence

🍃 Meaning:

• n. A person who deals in stolen property.
• v. To pawn off stolen property to a buyer.

🍂 Example:

“Take this watch to the fence and see what you can get.”

1️⃣6️⃣ The Fuzz

🍃 Meaning:

The Police.

🍂 Example:

“Don’t let the fuzz catch you.”

1️⃣7️⃣ Gaffer

🍃 Meaning:

Boss, foreman, or employer.

🍂 Example:

“Let’s ask the gaffer if we can go on break.”

1️⃣8️⃣ Gutted

🍃 Meaning:

A state of extreme despair.

🍂 Example:

“John was gutted that his girlfriend dumped him.”

1️⃣9️⃣ Go to Spare

🍃 Meaning:

To become angry, frustrated, distressed, or enraged.

🍂 Example:

“If his mood is off, he might go to spare.”

2️⃣0️⃣ Hard Cheese

🍃 Meaning:

An expression of bad luck.

🍂 Example:

“Hard cheese if he does. We’re entitled to our break.”


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1️⃣ Hangry
adjective

🍃 What it means: The feeling of anger or irritability you get when you’re hungry.

🍂 Where it comes from: Although the Internet has fueled this word’s recent rise in popularity, it was first printed in London Magazine in 1992.

2️⃣ Bougie
adjective

🍃 What it means: A disparaging term for people obsessed with wealth or its trappings.

🍂 Where it comes from: This shortened form of bourgeoise

3️⃣ Predictive
adjective

🍃 What it means: Describes something that is generated based on predictions made automatically (often by some sort of algorithm).

🍂 Where it comes from: “Predictive” as a general adjective has existed since 1637! This more specific use in phrases like “predictive text” has been much more recent, likely coming into fashion in the ‘00s.

4️⃣ Guac
noun

🍃 What it means: It’s just guacamole. That’s all.

🍂 Where it comes from: This popular abbreviation was first used in 1983—the same year that the first mobile phones were released.


5️⃣ Instagram
verb

🍃 What it means: To post something to Instagram.

🍂 Where it comes from: As long as Instagram has been a social network, this has been a verb. (Which means it was first used just eight years ago!)

6️⃣ Time suck
noun

🍃 What it means: An activity that takes a lot of time you could have used to do more productive things.

🍂 Where it comes from: Merriam-Webster charts this word all the way back to 1991, which was also the year the Internet gained its first website. Coincidence?

7️⃣ TL;DR
noun

🍃 What it means: This abbreviation stands for “too long; didn’t read.” It’s used to summarize the key point of a long text.

🍂 Where it comes from: According to Merriam-Webster, tl;dr (along with its acceptable alternatives TL;DR and Tl;dr) started appearing in the early ‘00s on news sites, where it remains popular to this day.

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💬50 British Slang Words & Phrases You Need to Know💬


2️⃣1️⃣ Honk

🍃 Meaning:

To vomit.

🍂 Example:

“Reginald coughed so hard he honked all over the pub.”

2️⃣2️⃣ Idiot box

🍃 Meaning:

A television set.

🍂 Example:

“I think I’ll spend the night in front of the idiot box.”

2️⃣3️⃣ Ivories

🍃 Meaning:

Teeth, piano keys, or dice.

🍂 Example:

“He sure knows how to tickle the ivories.”

2️⃣4️⃣ Jock

🍃 Meaning:

A nickname for John in Scotland but widely used as a Scottish everyman term like, dude, or mack, or buddy. It can be pejorative depending on context.

🍂 Example:

“Listen Jock, I need your group gone in the next five minutes.”

2️⃣5️⃣ Joe Bloggs

🍃 Meaning:

Equivalent to Joe Blow. A typical, average, or unremarkable man.

🍂 Example:

“I don’t know who he was. Just some Joe Bloggs.”

2️⃣6️⃣ Kerfuffle

🍃 Meaning:

A skirmish or fight caused by differing views.

🍂 Example:

“He and I got into a kerfuffle over politics.”

2️⃣7️⃣ Knees up

🍃 Meaning:

Adjective for liveliness.

🍂 Example:

“This party is knees up.”

2️⃣8️⃣ Know One’s Onions

🍃 Meaning:

To be well versed on a subject.

🍂 Example:

“Go ask John. He know his onions about cars.”

2️⃣9️⃣ Lag

🍃 Meaning:

A convict, especially one who served or is serving a long prison sentence.

🍂 Example:

“The old lag can’t find a job so he sits at the pub and drinks.”

3️⃣0️⃣ Laughing Gear

🍃 Meaning:

A metaphor for one’s mouth.

🍂 Example:

“Shut your laughing gear, Reginald.”


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💬50 British Slang Words & Phrases You Need to Know💬


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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💬50 British Slang Words & Phrases You Need to Know💬


4️⃣1️⃣ Richard the Third

🍃 Meaning:

Cockney rhyming slang for a ‘turd..

🍂 Example:

“Careful not to step on Richard the Third.”

4️⃣2️⃣ Rozzer

🍃 Meaning:

A policeman.

🍂 Example:

“A rozzer walking past overheard cries for help.”

4️⃣3️⃣ Skive

🍃 Meaning:

Feigning illness to get out of going to work or school.

🍂 Example:

“He tried to skive off school but his mom was wise to the game.”

4️⃣4️⃣ Skint

🍃 Meaning:

Without money, broke, bankrupt.

🍂 Example:

“Sorry I can’t join you this time. I’m skint.”

4️⃣5️⃣ Spawny

🍃 Meaning:

Lucky.

🍂 Example:

“That was a spawny outcome for you.”

4️⃣6️⃣ Steaming

🍃 Meaning:

The state of extreme drunkenness, or extreme anger.

🍂 Example:

“A steaming drunk Reginald, hobbled out of the pub.”

4️⃣7️⃣ Take the mickey

🍃 Meaning:

To tease or mock.

🍂 Example:

“Don’t get so upset when someone takes the mickey.”

4️⃣8️⃣ Tosh

🍃 Meaning:

Nonsense.

🍂 Example:

“It’s a lot of tosh to act like that.”

4️⃣9️⃣ Wag off

🍃 Meaning:

To waste time, or play truant.

🍂 Example:

“I had nothing to do but wag off at work.”

5️⃣0️⃣ Warts and all

🍃 Meaning:

Equivalent to ‘as is.’ Taken to include all negative characteristics.

🍂 Example:

“Alright, I’ll keep you, warts and all.”


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