Can YOU guess these strange British English expression? 🇬🇧

Can YOU guess these strange British English expression? 🇬🇧
In this video, I wanted to teach you some VERY British English expressions. However, instead of simply giving you the phrase and an example, I thought it would be FAR more interesting to ask people from various countries if they knew or could guess what these strange, weird and wonderful British English expressions mean!
If you want to sound more like a fluent, native English speaker, try and use some of these phrases :)
let's see if they can find out!
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[@InstantEnglishUK]

HEY! did you know any of these British English expressions before you watched the video? Also, which one is your new favourite? 😁

[@eidhah1404]

🌹

[@geminievil]

Only the 4th one, and my favorite is "I'm gobsmacked"

[@classysquid7501]

I would hope so, considering I live there

[@concernedcitizen6313]

"Bee's knees" is old timey American, too. Also, I knew what "Muppet" meant.

[@BigBadWolfdog]

I'm a Brit, so I knew all of these except dropping the kids off at the pool and going out on a lash.

[@kissa2158]

Cool! Some cockney slang. I heard some of them before. My favourite one is to drop the kids off at the pool. The slang expression for that in Russian (translated literally) is to lay a larva. 😀

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Yep some cockney indeed as it can be a little strange haha! Lay the larva! Love it

[@deebaasifi2666]

@@InstantEnglishUK What is the difference between ( I don't care) and (I don't mind) ??? Can you say that please?

[@sayedafatema]

Brown bread-- being dead Muppet-- idiot Bee's knees-- cool, excellent, high quality Drop the kids off at the pool-- go to the toilet Gobsmacked-- Shocked Faffing around-- Wasting time or doing something unnecessary On the lash-- Go out and get drunk

[@onebodyoneummah372]

A bunches of Thank for teaching advance English. I am learning English by you. Be happy always. 👍👍

[@Yostheou]

"I'm going drop the kids off at the pool" Kkkkkkk... can't stop laughing!

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Do you have anything similar in your language?

[@Yostheou]

@@InstantEnglishUK Yes, we do! Translating from portuguese... "I'll make number 1", "I'll cut the monkey's tail off", or, "I'll drop a clay off" among others. At least in Sao Paulo (Brazil), I'm not sure about Rio de Janeiro or in Portugal, maybe they use different expressions there kkkk...😄

[@ajsharita]

Almost all of them (besides gobsmacked) are new to me. But I really like the first one (brown bread). Never heard it before and would never be able to guess its meaning in a million years 😂

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Hello AJ, really glad you loved the video and hope you are well!

[@ajsharita]

@@InstantEnglishUK hello Chris 😊 of course I love your wonderful videos! They are getting better and better. I really appreciate your efforts for us 👏

[@ImKhan03]

I’m hardly learning English😂 these expressions are something very new to me. Thank you though 😊

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Thank you mate!

[@PyroHasFallen]

LOL this is funny ngl i subbed :D

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Cheers

[@PyroHasFallen]

@@InstantEnglishUK cheers my friend

[@ravir.8588]

Superb👌 I like so much British English ☺

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Thank you, where are you from?

[@ravir.8588]

India, Tamil Nadu

[@ravir.8588]

@@InstantEnglishUK India, Tamil Nadu

[@NKC_DRAWING]

Amazing you so So Amazing seriously greatest video ever 👋

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Legend!

[@NKC_DRAWING]

✌️😊

[@jirskyrjenkins1959]

These all make sense to me as an Aussie - I suspect many ex colonies like Australia, NZ, South Africa would know these. The only one I didn't know was brown bread, but if you had told me it was rhyming slang, I would have guessed it.

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Nice 👍

[@karuna6307]

Thanks it was nice❤

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Thank you!

[@M1986Gh]

That “ poor kids” kill me instant!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Haha great guys 😁

[@brendamartinez6955]

Superb

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Thanks Brenda, please make sure to share 👍

[@user-ds9jy5ld9v]

Thank you very much 😂

[@InstantEnglishUK]

You’re welcome

[@neonmajora8454]

I always thought the bees knees was American slang, the more you know lol

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Now you know 😎

[@neonmajora8454]

@@InstantEnglishUK Yerp lol

[@VikingMJB]

Well I guess being English it was obvious all of these would be so damn easy. Although you exaggerated the beesknees one. You are the beesknees-You are the best!

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Cheers Mark

[@Abdcz]

As a Brit this is so funny

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Glad you enjoyed

[@Schattendragonfly]

Well I thought I knew some English. Now I don't.

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Yes you can

[@mdc734]

Brown bread!! horrible expression. But curiously when Chris mentioned it in my mind I saw a corpse but consciously I didn't thought in a dead person. That at the toilette I got it.

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Nice one

[@yuliyavasilyeva5424]

It's cockney, innit?))

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Yep 👍 the first one

[@dokzma]

woow so nice people drinking MATE with herb , soo argentian thats is cool

[@InstantEnglishUK]

I know, he even offered me some 😁

[@MrSiD2125]

I'm going to drop the kids off at the pool,😂😁😂 that was hilarious 🤣 ohh poor kid🫣

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Is there anything similar in your language?

[@MrSiD2125]

@@InstantEnglishUK Yeah!

[@MrSiD2125]

@@InstantEnglishUK actually I'm from India & and I speak Hindi, do you know Hindi ?

[@balazsszabolcs4]

Chris, I'm into the expression: Your shoes are the bee's knees

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Any others?

[@balazsszabolcs4]

@@InstantEnglishUK okay,I promise, I"ll also use brown bread, muppet and I'm going to drop the kids off at the pool. Your videos are great and I could listen to your voice long hours.

[@EWAMILENAP]

Not easy. Thank you. Quite challenging, especially he is brown bread = he is dead

[@InstantEnglishUK]

It’s Cockney rhyming slang so only used in the London area or perhaps other southern areas of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Deliberately_Enigmatic]

Isn't when you say I'm gobsmacked it'd mean that you're speechless

[@InstantEnglishUK]

It could be, you are speechless because you’re shocked

[@Deliberately_Enigmatic]

@@InstantEnglishUK gotcha, Chris.

[@valushka21]

No spaniards left in Barcelona😅

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Nope 👎

[@Super-id7bq]

Should have explained that The Bees Knees means "The Business".

[@InstantEnglishUK]

That’s another slang

[@10s-20]

Are you coming in Nepal this year??

[@InstantEnglishUK]

If you subbed

[@loveisblind5712]

I like u man

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Thanks mate

[@iddyiddy1282]

Number 4. Is pooping 🤣 if am am not wrong

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Yep 👍

[@dr.mohammadmoin_________1517]

My name is Dr I'm from South Africa in Nigeria 🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@LoLa-xe9df]

Me : saving them and imagine if someone asked me about them I'll answer instantly 😌😂!

[@InstantEnglishUK]

I’ll come to your city next!

[@LoLa-xe9df]

@@InstantEnglishUK a hundred welcome sir

[@barnaclesbeef]

as a british person nobody uses these lol

[@InstantEnglishUK]

False: as a British person too, the only two that are old now are brown bread (although areas of London still use it) and bee’s knees.

[@pachma405]

I'm British and I've never heard anyone say "I'm going to drop the kids off at the pool" when they mean I'm taking a dump.

[@InstantEnglishUK]

I am British and I have heard loads of people say it

[@lilyrichardson]

I'm Scottish and I call it and its not a splinter its a scelf

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Pardon?

[@sabasolivellaabuabara8156]

I prefer say “the second one” (el número dos, en español) than “drop the kids off at the pool”. I imagine my (future) children, too unpleasant

[@InstantEnglishUK]

You got any more in Spanish that I should know?

[@KelvinColin]

That is embarrassing 😂

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Are you sure?

[@ravindrasingh897]

what is refresh called in hindi

[@InstantEnglishUK]

I’m not sure, I don’t speak Hindi

[@ravindrasingh897]

I could not find its translation in Hindi, so I am asking you.

[@j3zproductions]

This isn’t bullshit!😂

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Pardon?

[@user-nr5qm6xt9x]

Hello from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Hey!

[@InstantEnglishUK]

How’s the weather today?

[@user-nr5qm6xt9x]

@@InstantEnglishUK -in Kyrgyzstan now -11 degrees

[@wishybois1886]

It’s a skelf

[@wishybois1886]

Skelf

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Shelf?

[@user-fb3he8ps4v]

Me myself I’m British lol

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Why you here?

[@gianellarojascoral2217]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheBrandyAnimator]

i hear all

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Hear what?

[@milaKelley8]

Lobsters I’m motion

[@yigitcanbaysal824]

Hi there I'm looking for a friend to practice my English I wonder if you are interested in? 😊

[@milaKelley8]

@@yigitcanbaysal824 of course! I would love to help!!

[@yigitcanbaysal824]

@@milaKelley8 That's great. I'm from Turkey and you?

[@milaKelley8]

@@yigitcanbaysal824 hi I’m from America,Missouri

[@abduqodir5341]

I wish you luck

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Thank you, where are you from?

[@abduqodir5341]

@@InstantEnglishUK I'm from Uzbekistan

[@abduqodir5341]

I watch all your videos

[@michealjohnson6348]

Rats is in motion😢

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Are you sure?

[@abdqusay906]

Nice my deer

[@InstantEnglishUK]

My dear * thank you mate

[@atoo1233]

I waiting u in saudi arabia😉😉💍

[@InstantEnglishUK]

Hello, see you soon!

[@TheBrandyAnimator]

??????

[@InstantEnglishUK]

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