Hurrah! It’s National Fish and Chip Day. EVERY British person I know Knows About Fish and Chips.…
Oggie, oggie, oggie – Oi, oi, oi! – heard at rugby matches up and down…
to eat humble pie – to have to apologise, or be submissive in admitting…
to be done up like a kipper – to be tricked; exploited; taken advantage…
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The Best-Laid Plans
The best laid plans often go awry is a translation of a line from a…
ham-fisted – clumsy, heavy-handed; without dexterity. If you do something in a “ham-fisted manner” you…
to go cold turkey – to withdraw suddenly and completely from something bad for…
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Get A Right Stuffing
to get a right stuffing – to be beaten or defeated in a very…
Saucy – something a little bit rude, or sexually explicit, but in a playful, lighthearted…
Not a sausage means…nothing. As in: “Have you got any money?” “Nope, not a sausage.”…
