Brits have been sharing the words and phrases they have to explain to people not from the UK – 17 favourites

10.

‘Trump = fart.’
aGin

11.

‘Chockablock.’
Selenenightshade

12.

‘Why so many Brits giggled when the US contingent mentioned their coworker Randy.

‘Also why we found Fanny Pack funny, which turned into annoyance when the bloke wanted to EXACTLY what a fanny was after I explained it was “women’s front bits” – trying to be polite in public. I was much more medically accurate after that.’
FuyoBC
13.

‘I’ll be there in a minute now’ – Welsh for I’ll see you at some point in the next 60 seconds to 5 minutes just fuck off and stop hassling me.’
Halls17
14.

‘Pissing on someone’s chips, or, pissing on someone’s fire.’
koVonDoom

15.

‘It was only when I started teaching English as a foreign language that I realised just how many idiomatic phrases we use. There are hundreds I can’t remember but one like “I’m just popping round the corner” can end up a lessons worth :)’
FewFig2507

16.

‘Bollocks.

‘A Hort faculty member at my college wore a “Never mind the bollocks” teeshirt to class once. I have to take her to one side and explain it. Oddly, she never wore it again.’
BadkyDrawnBear

17.

‘Nonce’
sterious_Key1554

And just in case you were wondering …

Not on normal courtyard exercise.’
TwoJointsJay

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