Life isn’t all beer and skittles – a brilliant phrase. It simply means that life…
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On The Sauce
To Be On The Sauce – To go out for a big boozy night…
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(Not so) Sour Grapes – A Beginner’s Guide to English & Welsh Wine
Sour Grapes – to dismiss or criticise something, because you are hacked off that you…
Our trains are crap. Aren’t they? We think they are. They’re expensive (our rail network…
This is a very British expression. Non-Brits often complain that we don’t say things directly, and…
To (really) take the biscuit – when someone has done something that you find…
An expression used to describe a situation when everything is included. But…
Several Christmasses ago, a client of mine, who had not been long in the UK,…
