60 British Sayings

Some crazy things that we crazy Brits are known for saying:

British saying - Definition in american english

1.) Completely Mental - crazy
2.) Quite nice/ "rawther" (rather) lovely - Its Good
3.) Ruck Sack - Back Pack
4.) Useless Knob - Lazy person
5.) pop over/in - go to, stop by
6.) What do you fancy? - What do you like?
7.) Gob - Mouth
8.) Ish - something not nice
9.) Scarper - to escape fast
10.) Barking - crazy
11.) cane - travel at speed
12.) Bee's Knee's - the best
13.) Elbow grease - Hard work
14.) chuffed as nuts - extremely pleased
15.) cow juice - milk
16.) Bob's your Uncle - there you have it
17.) Cackhander - Left Handed person
18.) Arse about tit - back to front
19.) Keep your hair on - calm down
20.) Absolute tosh - complete rubbish
21.) beastly - big
22.) Belt up - shut up
23.) blast - dammit
24.) cheesed off - annoyed
25.) chivvy along - hurry up
26.) codswallop - baloney
27.) donkeys years - a long time
28.) duffer - old person
29.) fiddle sticks - polite swear word
30.) full of beans - someone has a lot of energy
31.) knockers - breasts
32.) alright mush - hi
33.) nitwit - twit
34.) not my cup of tea - not for me
35.) on your bike - polit way of saying f*** off
36.) off your trolley - mad
37.) Parky - cold
38.) pear shaped - something gone wrong
39.) piece of cake - easy
40.) put a sock in it - shut up
41.) Rat arsed - drunk
42.) shirty - bad tempered
43.) shambles - chaotic mess
44.) skew-whiff - crooked
45.) Smarmy - smooth
46.) spend a penny - go to the toilet
47.) splash out - spend a lot of money
48.) stone the crows - blimey
49.) suss - figure out
50.) taking the mickey - taking the piss
51.) throw a spanner in the works - wreck something
52.) Tickety-boo - if someting is going well
53.) twee - dainty
54.) two finger salute - swear
55.) waffle - talk about something irrelevant
56.) put some welly into it - put some muscle into it
57.) zonked - tired, exhausted
58.) throw a wobbly - have a tantrum
59.) yonks - a long time
60.) whinge - complain