21 Things Only BRITS Understand! | Best British Phrases and Slang

[@sarahhardy8649]

Bog standard actually started off when meccano sold two versions of their product. Box deluxe and box standard, Brits being Brits, bastardised them and called one bog standard, and the other the dog’s bollocks....and they stuck.

[@andrewfairbrother259]

Anorak comes from a type of waterproof jacket with a hood. It’s a very pragmatic garment worn by non too stylish people. It was the favoured outer wear of people, usually men, who enjoyed a hobby called trainspotting. These people are thought of as so obsessed with spotting trains to the point of being exceptionally dull. The term ‘anorak’ was attached to them, based on the jackets they wore. It then became a term used for anyone who is obsessed by any particular subject to the point of dull obsession. Hope that’s as clear as mud. 😀

[@musicgarryj]

An anorak is a terminally unfashionable garment worn here in the UK's cold/rainy weather by nerds. It first became popular in the 1960s with trainspotters (the people who stand all day at the end of station platforms collecting engine numbers and photographing trains).... and thus has become an insult, inferring someone is a geek or a nerd, someone who has an excess of detailed technical knowledge and enthusiasm about a subject that "normal"/cool people do not share. Socially awkward, introverted, a loner......an incel..... I'm sure you get the idea! That was me being an anorak about the definitition of the term anorak! lol :)

[@patrickholt2270]

Also birders or twitchers - birdwatchers. Same conditions - need to go out in a hurry in all weathers and stand around for hours.

[@jrswinhoe58]

Cak handed as I am left handed I know of this it is romoured to come from India or the sub-continent in general because the people use their left hand to wipe their backsides were as we use our right hand so "Cak on the left hand becomes Cak Handed".

[@musicgarryj]

@@jrswinhoe58 Er.....possibly too much information there, my dear fellow! lol

[@DaveBartlett]

And 'anorak' might sound like a word from science-fiction, but it's actually a word from Greenlandic Inuit, describing a weatherproof jacket, that's shorter than a 'parka' (also an Inuit word from Greenland.) Anorak when used in slang is (according to the OED,) "A studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests." (just about sums up trainspotters!)

[@jno5]

Builders Tea is a Strong (even very strong) Cup of Tea

[@BillCameronWC]

FreeToWheel Usually hot strong milky tea with several teaspoons of sugar added, the kind of tea “you can stand your spoon up in” 😉.

[@portland-182]

And in a mug

[@jkmaseruman]

Not just strong but stewed with the bag left in. Oh and five sugars.

[@Steve_Gee74]

@@jkmaseruman A proper mug of builders tea is poured on a Friday after being started on a Monday

[@_v-.]

And stirred with a pencil/pen or anything other than a spoon ✏️😂

[@angelafraser4572]

Bob's your uncle comes from Arthur Balfour getting the job of Minister for Ireland because his uncle Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was the prime minister.

[@graceygrumble]

Was Fanny his aunt?

[@basilthecamper]

graceygrumble 😂😂😂

[@TheVaughan5]

When I lived in Australia we used to use the term - Bob’s your uncle.

[@hadz8671]

Chock-a-block can be shortened to "chocker".

[@lizzief4461]

‘Put some welly into it’ got told that all the time at school it means put more effort in to it

[@andrewfairbrother259]

Elizabeth Frame More used as “give it some welly!” 😊

[@paultipton743]

@@andrewfairbrother259 Drive( or ride) it like you stole it!

[@satch60]

You should come to Newcastle for a little bit, it will blow your mind if you think these phrases or words are strange.

[@mrmessy7334]

Risk it for a biscuit! Get yer coat love, you've pulled!

[@andrewstratford4753]

Or are you willing for a shilling!!

[@Jneedstostopobssessing]

Cack-handed originally meant left-handed and is still sometimes used for that, as well as clumsy

[@Steve_Gee74]

It goes back to when fountain pens were used regularly. Left handers had to pretty much bend their hand and wrist round so the ink wasn't smudged by the bottom edge of your little finger otherwise you'd have to rewrite it all again

[@rachelpenny5165]

Where I grew up ( very rural Devon) , the term cack-handed was replaced by the term cutch-pawed.

[@jameshead9119]

The clumsy ness was caused because lefty’s were made to use their right hand in schools and the army

[@garryanstee5063]

In ancient times a Cack was a tool used on the left hand side of a thatched roof to trim it into a straight line. Try using a Cack right handed and you would most likely end up on the ground , shortest route down, head first. If you were Cack handed you were most likely left handed, therefor considered awkward, clumsy. Wallop, in Victorian times was a word for beer. One possible reason the word Codswallop came into being was a firm of Codd (or possibly Cod or Code) in the mid 19th century made 'soft' (non alchohol) drink. The drink was therefor "Codd's Wallop". In otherwords, not the real thing, not real beer. The bottles can still be found in the UK today in antique fairs. They are the clear bottles with a glass ball pinched into the neck. If you are lucky, the name 'Codd' will be seen moulded into the bottle.

[@avrilbowler8755]

The anorak is a coat often associated with nerdy people e.g. trainspotting. So if you call someone an anorak you are saying they are a boring nerd.

[@richardmitchell3136]

Watching this video as a Brit and never even occurred to me that so many sayings we use are unique to us / wouldn't be understood if we were speaking to people from overseas 😂

[@karenblackadder1183]

Always good to see ourselves as others see us. We use so many nautical phrases that foreigners don't understand let alone all the regional words and variations.

[@nickbrough8335]

A bog is also a wetland area in the UK, usually at some altitude, where no trees grow and the soil is comprise of Peat.

[@numbersix8336]

An Anorak is someone who pays attention to detail, it comes from train spotting (popular from steam engines to the present day) spotters would wear waterproof clothing ( anorak/ cagoule) and would stand at the end of a station platform which had no weather protection so they had an uninterrupted view of the train numbers and note the exact time they arrived and departed.

[@robclaridge6236]

Over egged is one of those that is of understatement. We don't say the pudding bit either. For instance if you were to set off a bunch of fireworks you bought down the pub that are "professional", and let them off in your back garden blowing your windows out. You would then say, " I may have over egged that a bit".

[@aleckpoole6059]

Cream Cracker( a biscuit )ed , rhymes with knackered, = tired, derived from worn out. A worn out horse would be fit for the Knackers Yard. Knackers also slang for testicles.

[@MrInglisway]

Chockablock is a nautical term, it refers to when two pulley blocks for rope have jammed up together and cannot move, often now used to describe traffic or crowds being jammed up.

[@magecraft2]

Never heard of "Dench" in my life spent Liverpool, Yorkshire and the midlands. Maybe a newer thing as I have just turned 50??? In fact no one I have asked here has heard it :)

[@baylessnow]

I've heard of Judy Dench.

[@magecraft2]

@@baylessnow That has been the statement of the 10 or so people I have asked about it :)

[@angelafraser4572]

'Dench' and 'Peng' came out of the 2010s London Grime music scene. Possibly Jamaican creole origin

[@markpstapley]

Yeah it's current slang from something positive a popular rapper said about Judy Dench.

[@magecraft2]

@@angelafraser4572 Being a 50 year old rocker that is likely why I have never heard of it :) Proof if anyone needed it that language is fluid :)

[@darthpaul490]

Anorak is used to describe a train spotter....with glasses on hood up taking notes of trains kinda image

[@graceygrumble]

Someone who knows a lot about something... weird.

[@BillCameronWC]

paul woolley Another word for an anorak is a nerd, someone (usually a youngish man) who has a great interest in the detail of some arcane subject, an interest shared only by other similar people, but that everyone else finds intensely boring and uninteresting, train and plane spotting, or in a US context those who collect things like baseball cards.

[@simonpowell2559]

I think the word comes from the Inuit (Eskimo) language. Does that make me an Anorak Anorak.

[@mrmessy7334]

Glasses held together with sellotape.

[@piggypiggypig1746]

@@simonpowell2559 I hate to say it Simon, but yes. I'm a little bit that way myself. xD

[@fatbelly27]

Did you not have an anorak when you were a kid? We all did - an outer jacket , usually padded, with a hood. The word comes from Greenland Eskimo, describing just that.

[@peckelhaze6934]

Love these! Not heard some for several years. One of my old favourites is "a bit of Jiggery-pokery", meaning: fiddling about with something, being crafty, up to no good.

[@olly5764]

Anorak as an insult comes from the types of people who stand around at railway stations, airports etc noting down numbers and can tell you about their subject to the last nut and bolt, often seen wearing the aformentioned garment. One of my favourites is "As thick as two short planks" meaning stupid

[@petejones7878]

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material-often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; alkaline mires are called fens.

[@SlapnastyMcTavish]

Builders tea is boiled orange in a bricklayers boot with 5 sugars and yesterdays milk!

[@AB-ku4my]

Builder's tea is tea that is so strong that the stirring implement (spoon, pencil, screwdriver or anything else to hand) can stand vertically in the cup, mug, jamjar or any other available container, with no obvious support. I freely admit that I am a Tea Anorak.

[@aucourant9998]

Bog-standard is usually used to denote something basic without any frills, or common-or-garden and not out of the ordinary. "It's just a bog-standard family car", or more colloquially; "It's just your bog-standard family car".

[@shakeyjakey192]

Fit usually refers to someone who looks after their body, but are also good looking. It doeant have to be they look after their body though, it can just mean you fancy them lol

[@speleokeir]

As you say an Anorak is a raincoat in particular a cagoule/pacamac. However it's also used as a name for anyone boring and nerdy, especially trainspotters. That bloke who subjected you to a three hour slideshow on different types of streetlamp? An anorak. The guy who's an authority on a rare type of woodlouse? An anorak. He probably still lives with his mum even though he's forty and is almost certainly a virgin. You get the idea. So you might well ask for an anorak to defuse a bomb because he may be nerdy enough to do it and if not nobody's going to miss him! Hugh Denis in this clip plays a bloke called Mr Strange who could be called an anorak: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2Tbap2nhbuSjLs - Cack handed originally meant left handed but these days is used to describe someone who's clumsy and awkward. - Cream crackered/knackered. You may also hear people say "I'm Jacobs" i.e. Jacobs cream crackers (a very well known brand in the UK)

[@gillchatfield3231]

Basically, because most trainspotters wore anoraks (usually too small, as they'd worn them since they were 14).

[@ticopipa]

Bog is wet ground in a land field. From there came poop/toilet and synonym for common .

[@avrilbowler8755]

An anorak is a rather scruffy jacket. They were often worn by trainspotters (people collecting train numbers). This is considered by many to be a very boring hobby to be fanatical about. So an anorak is a person keen on a boring activity. One Lancashire phrase I came across many years ago - I had an itchy scalp and gave it a scratch. I was asked, "Are you wick?" I found it meant, "Are you lousy? (Have you got head lice?)" Thought you might like this unusual one.

[@lilyliz3071]

Here where I live in Scotland for gaff we say bit,like in Whose bit we going to tonight or I was round at my pals bit

[@DaveBartlett]

I heard an explanation for "Bog Standard" a long time ago, (though I'm unconvinced how much truth there is in it,) which was that when a well known British construction set for kids was first launched, it came in two sizes: one was called 'Box Standard' and the other more sophisticated set was called 'Box Deluxe'. Over time the first of these two phrases came to mean something that was ordinary and nothing special, but 'Box Standard' was corrupted to 'Bog Standard'; the second came to mean something exceptional or especially good, but again (the) 'Box Deluxe' was corrupted to 'The Dogs Bollocks!'

[@jhenderson5276]

Some phrases in common use are as follows, but no doubt you have heard of them. Some can be somewhat insulting but nevertheless worth a mention. She has a face like a bull dog chewing wasps. He is as much use as a chocolate fireguard. He / she is as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike She is all fur coat and no knickers. He’s got a tile lose A stick short of a bundle Thick as two short planks Away with the fairies

[@geoffsankey5743]

The children's toy set Meccano came in two standards: Box Standard and Box Deluxe. Box Standard was the basic model and became Bog Standard, which means "average". Box Deluxe became "Dog's Bollocks" which means "the best".

[@crikeyscreates]

Cockney rhyming slang was a language that developed to stop the authorities knowing what they were talking about. The actual word rhymes with the second word of the phrase ie stairs would be apple and pears but the only word said would be apple. It's basically a coded way of speaking for cockneys so that it's not obvious what they are talking about.

[@annebennett5824]

In the Midlands we call it navvie tea. From when the Irish navigators built the canals

[@celticstorm73]

Thats odd.. i've lived in the midlands for 40 years and never once heard that phrase. At least when i do now i'll know what it means lol :-)

[@jonjoco]

a few sandwiches...: a stair short of the landing, these phrases are multitudinous and Europewide.

[@ront2424]

a couple of tinnies short of a six pack, Australian version.

[@michaelstamper5875]

The chimneys missing a brick or two. Or the lift doesn't go all the way to the top floor.

[@florrie2303]

Something that is said in the British Army when describing someone whose done something stupid is to say 'Same grid reference...different planet.'

[@maccladoz]

Maybe it's because of the age difference, I'm in my mid-50's, but a lot of these words/phrases were fairly common when I was growing up in New Zealand. I would have thought that would also apply to our cousins in Australia.

[@scubachickmin]

You are correct Ian, loads of these are familiar to Australians too, I have used many of them.

[@johnegerszeghy9818]

Anorak is a Greenland Inuit word for their waterproof hooded jacket. A similar style, also called an anorak, is traditionally worn by nerds in the UK---hence the altrnative name for nerds is anorak.

[@PD-uc5st]

Yvette your delightful smile is wonderful as is your personality i love your videos. I wanted to say some pubs have names most misunderstand. For example Hogs head is not the name of an animal (roast hog) . But it is an old imperial measure of Ale. A hogshead of Ale is 54 gallons or 250 Litres. Perhaps you could do a video about strange pub names . 😊

[@simonlongley6387]

Better than 'On it like a car bonnet' is "On it like a tramp on hot chips", which is slightly more visceral and a little easier to grasp.

[@hlund73]

Anorak is an Eskimo (probl'y shouldn't say that now) word for a type of jacket reputedly popular with trainspotters. To call someone an anorak suggests they have the social interests & skills needed to get pleasure out of standing in cold rainy stations for hours & getting excited by numbers on trains.

[@Steve_Gee74]

In the region of Dudley, Wolverhampton and Solihull A phrase to denote a miser is "He's the kind of guy to skin a turd for a farthing" And implying something is a major eyesore even after renovations is "You can't polish a turd"

[@albertgrant1017]

Yvette I plan to be in the UK late fall 2020 and plan to visit my friends in Manchester,Newcastle and the Border Region and will collect all the Northern insults and report back to you.

[@slightlyconfused876]

You missed out Mad as a box of frogs. Cack handed means done in a bad way, eg that was a cack handed way to repair the light fitting.

[@michaelstamper5875]

Codswallop supposedly originated during the temperance era in Victorian times. Mr or maybe Reid. Codd tried to develop an alcohol free beer which was nicknamed Codd's Wallop. (Wallop being a name for soft drink). To hardened boozers, it seemed like a rubbish idea, hence the modern meaning.

[@keefsmiff]

I love that Aussies call Gingers Ranga's... it's just too funny pmsl

[@richardholmes4552]

Bog standard evolved from Box standard, which was a basic set of Meccano or Lego

[@garethalbans]

Meccano had a more expensive offering, Box Deluxe, which transformed into 'dogs bollocks' - i e much superior to bog standard.

[@colinwilson4658]

the ANORAK rain coat was the preferred wear of people regarded as somewhat geeky such as train spotters so ANORAK became a sort of shorthand. meccano construction set came marked BOX STANDARD and box deluxe so box standard became a derogatory way of describing something basic over time it became corrupted to BOG STANDARD as it added emphasis. GAFF can also mean a mistake or screw up. until about 10 years ago GEEZER meant an old crotchety man.

[@neilcaress9036]

"geezer" comes originally from a 19th century word 'Guiser' meaning a "Mummer". A mummer was an actor in a traditional masked mime or a mummers' play (amateur folk plays).

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Anorak= geek. Bog standard= just a generic thing. Builders tea= very strong and sweet cup of tea. Cack handed= something done clumsily. Cream crackered= knackered= tired. Fit= From American English meaning 'attractive person's Full of beans= energetic, enthusiastic. Hope they help.

[@james7024]

I’m English. My dads Australian. NEVER heard the phrase ‘ a few sandwiches short of a picnic’

[@poitch1610]

Bog Standard and Dogs Bollocks come from the old Mecanno Sets - Box Standard and Box Deluxe according to Q.I.

[@DaveBartlett]

Though in a later programme, Stephen Fry admitted that there was no real evidence that this was true, so who knows?

[@mikesaunders4775]

Geezer,in essence is the same as 'Bloke',an informal name for a male.It is far more widely used in the London area than elsewhere,and has taken on an additional role as a term of respect in recent times,either on its own or preceded by the words 'Diamond' or 'Top'.

[@iceydiamond9992]

Fun video! Brit here, people have always called me cack handed or "cow with a gun" all my life as I am very clumsy, struggle to use a knife as I am dyspraxic, terrible coordination and always drop things and look awkward trying to do things, hands and arms everywhere haha very cack handed

[@johnclements6614]

I think it comes from India.

[@jameshead9119]

Funny enough I know where codswalup comes from basically back at the turn of the last Century an inventor by the name of codd came out with a type of reusable lemonade bottle that you could get refilled at a grocers shop or news agents ( for Americans they double as sweatshops ) instead using screw cap or beer bottle type cap had a marble trapped in the neck that used the gas pressure to seal it to open it you had to use the cods painted opener ( think long necked champagne cork ) to Break the gas seal by giving it a wallop this’d the name thinking back these would of been ideal for use on sodastreems

[@BillCameronWC]

Saying someone is fit is often a euphemism for being very (sexually) attractive/pretty/good-looking, not necessarily sporty, can be applied to either sex.

[@vickytaylor9155]

Builders tea is a strong cup of tea with a tiny bit of milk. It is the correct way to make a cup of tea.

[@richardh50]

Vicky Taylor A lot of builders have gone all posh now & ask for coffee !

[@paulcullen814]

When you said about calling yourself fit, as into fitness, I was thinking yep you're definitely fit in the British sense!!

[@BritishFreedom]

I've never heard the term "dench" .. "lit" has the same meaning (as you describe) and is much more common.

[@claveworks]

Another tea (or coffee) is 'NATO Standard' - Everyone in the military uses this and it means milk and one sugar.

[@florrie2303]

Also in the military we say I'll have a 'Julie Andrews' a white nun (white tea/coffee, no sugar) and also a 'Whoopi Goldberg' a black nun (black tea/coffee, no sugar).

[@discomikeyboy2012]

NATO is two sugars

[@claveworks]

@@discomikeyboy2012 Eh, it was a long time ago lol...

[@shakeyjakey192]

anorak is right, anorak insult is reffered to people like trainspotter, or people who are geeky

[@heliotropezzz333]

Here is a clip from Blackadder which involves the phrase 'budge up'.kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ2wYpxubdhgbbM Choc a bloc is often abbreviated to choca. Fit meaning hot comes from the USA but is common in the UK now so it does get confused with fit meaning physically very able and healthy.

[@pauldobson2529]

I reckon half of these are in common use in Australia. Rhyming slang is always different though because they relate to different places or people. ‘A few sandwiches short of a picnic’, brolly and a few others are common. ‘Fit’ and ‘anorak’ definitely UK though. We don’t call that type of coat an anorak, we call it a parka, so calling a nerd or geek an anorak wouldn’t work.

[@philipcochran1972]

The lights are on but there's no one home = some one that's a bit dim A load of old cobblers = rubbish As thick as two short planks = back to the dim person Donkey's years = very old

[@philb3549]

Anorak pronunciation was spot on. It's a Greenlandic word. Nerds wear anoraks thus nerds ARE "anoraks"? Google "Maurice Moss" he wears a fantastic brown one. One theory is BOG originally stood for "Basic or garden" as in "common or garden variety", a way of describing plants or birds. BOG standard thus means it's ordinary or lacking extra features?

[@MWR62]

Boutcha! (Belfast for all right?). In Scotland - where I live now - a possibly dodgy greeting would be “Aw reet there, pal?” Followed by a punch. Rare I think.

[@shakeyjakey192]

really enjoying ur vids, I am British btw lol, We often add innuendos on the end of phrases, for example, if someone said "OMG look how big it is" i would add "said the actress to the bishop!" and this can be used in multiple examples, I decorate rocks as a hobby, My Partner moved my rocks today and said, "i am just taking your rocks off here" to which i replied "said the actress to the bishop" because, if a bishop and an actress were carrying on together, it would certainly be a secret lol. Or you might say "just pull it" or "just pull it off" reply Said the bishop to the actress, cause it can be reversed too lol

[@tonys1636]

You should do a video on Aussie speak, but I think after years of Neighbours and Home and Away most would be known, at least by those who watch those soaps, speaking of Aussie TV programmes what happened to Blue Healers and Water Rats? Old ones still on various satellite channels.

[@Georgestella100]

Good fun. Keep them going, we will educate you eventually and I notice some of the comments have already started! Here's one 'as much use as a nine bob note!' Oldies would understand that one, although there are again variations, but it means someone or something is useless. The one about being drunk would be fun to watch if you cover the whole UK. As you know, sayings vary around the UK regions.

[@MichaelIngram-i4y]

'Butchers Hook' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'take a look'

[@Shin_Luna]

We have our ✨unique✨ phrases

[@shakeyjakey192]

the few sandwhiches comment can be adapted and interchanged with any other phrase thaat means the same thing, so for example a few tools short of a tool box if you are deliberatly mixing things up and actually showing how "thick" someone is could become A few sandwhiches short of the tool box, or a few cans short of a six pack can become a few cans short of a tool box, so you can litertally interchange the phrases lol

[@angelafraser4572]

Bog standard may just be a corruption of 'box standard' - ie a product that has come straight from the factory without changes - straight out of the box

[@mikeward7367]

I saw that suggested by Stephen Fry on QI, along with 'box deluxe' becoming the 'dog's bollocks' (sorry for the swearing!)

[@misschieflolz1301]

Should listen to some of the weird crap brought up in Wales. And us that don't speak welsh but occasionally use welsh words in normal conversation that I've literally had to explain to visitors before now, LOL

[@DaveBartlett]

An insult I've only ever heard once was when my friend referred to a particularly stupid work colleague of ours with "She's as thick as a whale omelette."

[@garryanstee5063]

Or, how about someone "having an IQ the less than his/her shoe size"? I have heard something similar in Itally but nowhere else in Europe, and when I have used the phrase myself, no-one could understand the basic concept.

[@klondikechris]

Some of these are used in Canada: anorak, but not as an insult, brolly, budge up, chin wag, choc o block, full of beans, gobsmacked, skewered and a few others are heard here. No Cockney rhyming slang though!

[@stephenlynch8846]

Anorak meens someone who is a nerd ie Trainspotter ie they wear anorak while on platforms trainspotting

[@BillCameronWC]

An euphemistic expression for someone who is not very bright is “not firing on all cylinders” or “out to lunch”, similar to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” 😉.

[@cocobunjee6676]

We always used to say "six pence short of a shilling".

[@andrewfairbrother259]

Not firing on all cylinders means tired or rundown to me. “Sorry if I’m a bit slow today, I’m not firing on all cylinders”

[@shakeyjakey192]

whilst i accept gaff, its a very southern thing, not normally, but occasionally used anywhere north of the watford gap lol

[@mikesaunders4775]

Originally Irish for house.

[@colingregory7464]

An anorak is someone who is obsessed with something that everyone else considers unimportant, especially if they talk about it to people who don't care

[@williamdeypres1122]

Then there's, 'Well, I'll go to the bottom of our stairs,' which means: " Well I never knew that".

[@florrie2303]

We say 'Well, I'll go t' foot of our stairs', which is the same meaning.

[@iandavenport2550]

Ideal standard is a manufacturer of toilets, and bog means toilet, so there basic model is called bog standard, meaning ordinary, nothing special.

[@patrickholt2270]

THIS!

[@Jerichocassini]

Well, you learn something everyday. Cheers

[@jonathanfinan722]

Well that’s just about as wrong as you could be. It’s a corruption of box standard. I.E. it’s a thing that’s as it left the factory without any extra bits, like a car for example. Nowt to do with bogs.

[@BennyDogwasp]

This was covered on QI. Hornby train sets came in different boxes - Box Standard was the entry level train set and Box Superior was the premium set.The rich kids got Box Superior and everyone else had to make do with Box Standard, which eventually corrupted to bog standard.

[@old.not.too.grumpy.]

A bog maybe a toilet as you say but a bog is also a very wet marshland

[@misolgit69]

apart from the insult an anorak is the British version of a parka, innit became popular from the TV sketch show (formerly a radio show) Goodness Gracious Me which had a cast of British Asians and their twist on observational comedy, I have a friend who uses bog basic instead of bog standard !!?

[@dave_h_8742]

Here's one I got called that none of my age group have heard before. I've turned Britvic or I am now 55 from the tonic water Britvic 55.

[@scorpmk]

if you make a builders tea and you pour milk for more than 0.4seconds, it aint a builders tea. i also expected dog bollocks in the vid to be explained as iv had to explain to a few new comers to the UK what it means :D

[@peterfirth7773]

Should say “as slack as a bag of knackers”

[@FallenAngel-hb4gx]

Your videos have helped me to enhance my english!!🤘

[@Saltysaltire97]

I love Australian slang. Busted a plugger at maccas so had to go to a servo to get some petrol. 😂🧡

[@ianwheeler7513]

Bob your uncle and fannys your aunt i believe is a phrase that is an off hand why of saying you got where you are in life through family connections nepotism, but today has a looser meaning.

[@Hydraas]

You pronounced anorak correctly, also I have not heard dench since I was a kid so now I always associate it with teenage kids

[@robertbramblett5301]

Yvettes Vibes : Now that was really funny, I believe it would take me, awhile to get use to all these British Phrases, & slang. HERE IN the U.S.A., we're having Father's Day , so I just wanna to wish you, & Daniel, A VERY HAPPY FATHER'S DAY SUNDAY! , from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Even if it's not in the U.K.................................................... Yvette, & Daniel, Take care of yourselve's, & Stay Safe. Have a Spectacular SUNDAY NIGHT, & The Coming Week. Wishing both of you alway's, the very best for year's to come.....................................................STAY.....SAFE.......EVERYONE!.......

[@robertbramblett5301]

Yvettes Vibes : Yvette, & Daniel, Just wanna to wish both of you, A VERY HAPPY 4th, OF JULY WEEKEND!...........................................Take care of yourselve's, & Stay Safe. Have a Outstanding Coming Week. Wishing both of you alway's, the very best for year's to come.

[@carinalll7278]

Can you please show how these things are written in your vids thx

[@shakeyjakey192]

people all over the UK use Hvae a butchers and cream crackered lol, but it is cockney lol

[@hywelcarter4610]

Brilliant video, thankyou so much for doing it

[@charlestaylor9424]

If you go to Aberdeen the normal greeting is "fit like".

[@charlieyerrell9146]

There are different ways of saying bog .I am going to the bog. I was stuck in the bog. Or I was bogged down in the mud .

[@fuckborris1280]

Dench is a new thing msde by a grime artist called lethal bizzle .. his even got a clothing line based on it which as made him alot of money