‘Phrases you hate’ type questions come up on here often, but I don’t often see the reverse. Which words/phrases/idioms/slang do you love saying or quoting, even if doing so incurs the confusion of your partners and peers?
For instance, I like ‘Are you picking up what I’m putting down?’ to mean ‘Do you understand?’, and the reverse to confirm I understand.
Also ‘I don’t want to yuck somebody else’s yum’ to mean ‘I don’t like this thing but other people do so I won’t go on about it, courtesy of the Stuff You Should Know podcast, I think.
I’ve also adopted a few John Robins and Elis James-isms, such as describing things as being ‘broadly fine’.
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“Not got two brain cells to rub together” – my partner says this about people being stupid. I love it.
– *”Thick as two short planks”*
– *”It’s aching for rain/it’s aching for it — “It’s yawning for more snow/rain””*
– *”Casting pearls before swine”*
One eye going to the shops and one coming back
HATE alright La
That really boils my piss – for something that’s annoying.
kosher as christmas.
“What’s that got to do with the price of fish?”
Cut of your gib.
Bob’s your uncle
“Have a word with yourself”
Every Scouse slang word!
Our kid,
La,
Sound,
Boss,
G’wed,
Scran,
Got a cob on,
Bevvy,
Come ed,
Made up for yuh
I don’t care what posh cunts think about them I’ll use them till I’m in the grave.
Wind your neck in.
You’ll have it dark.
Piffy on a rock bun.
Tight as a camel’s arse in a windstorm.
More chance of seeing a one-legged cat burying it’s turd on a frozen pond.
The wheel’s spinning but the hamster is dead.
The lights are on but no-one is home.
All mouth and no trousers.
If you said you’d been to Tenerife, he’d have been to Elevenerife.
Happy as a pig in shit
You’ve got a face like a battered snap tin