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

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[sarahhardy]

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.

[andrewfairbrother]

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. 😀

[jno]

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

[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 I'm sure you get the idea!

That was me being an anorak about the definitition of the term anorak! lol :)

[angelafraser]

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.

[lizzief]

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

[peckelhaze]

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.

[hadz]

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

[nickbrough]

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.

[Jneedstostopobssessing]

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

[numbersix]

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.

[darthpaul]

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

[satch]

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

[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.

[robclaridge]

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".

[mrmessy]

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

[SlapnastyMcTavish]

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

[magecraft]

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 :)

[richardmitchell]

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 😂

[aucourant]

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".