Top 10 BRITISH INSULTS | RUDE, CREATIVE and VERY FUNNY!

Learn the top 10 most creative British insults in this brand new English lesson. I teach you some very funny insults that British people use on each other. Enjoy!

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[rbarnett]

"You look like an accident in an abattoir" is perhaps my favourite insult I've heard. The other great one was "I got a birth certificate, your parents got an apology slip from Durex". The more creative the insult, the more heroic you are as a person. Be creative people, you'll win friends

[williamfarr]

Growing up in Texas back the 1970s, a friend of mine use to say vitiations of "He's just got one oar (or paddle) in the water" or "That guy doesn't have both his oars in the water". Another common one is "He's not playing with a full deck".

[TanyaJ_CrueltyFreeBeauty]

One Gordon Ramsay would use sometimes was calling people a muppet. I love it. 😂

[Admirable_Tomorrow]

I usually hear "a few fries short of a Happy Meal" in place of the "two sandwiches" phrase. Thank you for this video!

[gianlucac.]

In Italy sometimes you hear: "He is out as a balcony" meaning out of his mind

[TheAtreyeeShill]

"... Now please go out and insult" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[mamymimma]

I fell in love with "the bulldog chewing a wasp" 😄

[arjaygee]

American equivalent of "two sandwiches short of a picnic" : two bricks shy of a load.

"Not the sharpest tool in the shed" is used in the US, as is "not the brightest crayon in the box."

[bigtone]

My favourite has always been 'the lights are on, the door is open, but nobody's home'

[gwillis]

As an American, I would rather say. "You're so chicken!!" to a cowardly man. A chicken is a symbol of timidity in America

[miadodson]

I lived in the South of England and never heard that one about the "Northern Monkies, Southern Softies"
But I wasn't allowed to be around people who used that sorts of slangs, because my mother was and still is a huge snob. People called the area we lived in "Nob's Hill". I learned a lot of slangs after I left school and moved away from Wiltshire, like "two bobs short of a quid", "Light are on but nobody is home" "Dressd up like a Christmas tree", and loads more.

[StewyAdamRules]

You could say someone is a few blanks short of a blank and put almost any combination of words in there, it’s quite a versatile phrase.

[talscorner]

Our equivalent of "Mad as a box of frogs" is "crazy as a horse", at least in my neck of Italy

[kmsmail]

Here in the US the saying 'he is a few cards short of a full deck' is a phrase that means the same thing as the 2 sandwhichs short of a picnic .

[micheleprofeta]

“You’re not the brightest crayon in the box”. “You’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer.” “The elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top.” “You’re not the brightest bulb on the tree. (Christmas tree)”

[palavraescritanarede]

In Brazilian Portuguese there's a mean expression to say someone is ugly : " He, she, the baby, the boy, , the girl, your girlfriend, your mother, that woman, etc... ( You specify the person ) IS INSIDE OUT! ..."Ele, ela ( etc) está pelo avesso".

[destinatairelexpediteur]

3:36 In Belgium, we say "Il n'a pas toutes ses frites dans le même paquet" meaning "He doesn't have all his chips (fries) in the same bag."

[stanlivengood]

Two bricks shy of a load
A few fries short of a Happy Meal
His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top
The light is on but nobody's home

[LindaDeters]

It’s always fun to learn new idioms. Thanks.

[emiliecouillard]

About "crazy as a box of frogs", I thought about what I would say in French ( Canadian French from the province of Quebec). And we have an expression that says :" Fou comme un balai" which translates to "crazy as a broom".