American Reacts to Top 10 British Phrases That Always Confuse The Rest of the World
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- In the UK they have a lot of sayings and phrases that confuse me lol As an American I have never heard most of these phrases!
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You can also say “bob’s your uncle, fanny’s your aunt”
I always say 'Bob's your auntie'.
‘A snip here, a snip there and Bob’s your aunt’.
I have a brother called Robert and I have a son. He actually has an uncle Bob.
Robert's your Mother's brother!
I just read your comment after I posted lol , great minds 😅
Did you hear about the trainspotter who got hit by the Flying Scotsman?
He was chuffed to bits.
Pmsl
Lol!!!
Hahaha :D
Omd...😂😂
Oh god that joke was terrible.
May I suggest you never ask a Brit to show you a full moon.
There are parts of this country, possibly not the most salubrious parts, where a full moon would only cost you a fiver, but that doesn't include touching (so, I'm told...)
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 I can't we your guys comments
Or a blue moon !
Unless, of course, you are that way inclined… 😉
yes... just dont
As a kid I learnt the expression "what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts". I was told it originated with fairground folk.
When I was a schoolboy back in the 1950,s we learned a poem about this saying!
A fairground owner was asked about his business and he said! What I gain on the roundabout I lose on the swings!
Cannot remember the name of that poem over 65 years ago!
Two thoughts on bottoms. Firstly, I do not believe there is a single person in the UK that does not find an unexpected bare bottom funny. Secondly, British TV and film is *much* more relaxed about nudity than US TV (certainly the networks). Check out the public-service-broadcaster-screened TV show 'Naked Attraction', if you dare...
Even though it's shown on terrestrial TV it's censored on UA-cam.
@@peterbrown1012 Naturally, they don't want any Americans to see it and be shocked ;)
@@gilbertbpuk They might try to sue
Oh Jeeze! Is that the one with Cheggers in the nip?
@@jeanproctor3663 Blimey, after several years of therapy I'd just about forgotten that! :D That was Naked Jungle (which I really wish I couldn't remember!). Naked Attraction is a current dating show whose gimmick is the very last part of the potential partners you see is their face. And no parts are unseen on the way to it...
I'm nearly 53 and when I was a kid Bob's your Uncle and Fanny's your Aunt was a common saying. Also 'Shank's Pony' which means that you have no means of transport so have got to walk. Greetings from the UK. I live in Broadstairs which is a seaside town on the Kent Coast. Loving the reactions.
Bottoms and Bottom jokes are integrial to the British sense of humour. :D
*IT'S THE GAS MAN!*
Wait, that's maybe not the Bottom you meant.
Bottoms up
Yup. And farting.
Obsessing about farting humour is intrinsically British.
Bottom was good but the young ones is where its at for me lol
@@NiSiochainGanSaoirse yup, burping, farting, bums, innuendo, (or as i say 'inyourendo' 😜)
JT, you can't say you're not smart when you came up with the concept for this channel & have so many subscribers. Every part of the UK has it's own unique slang.
Fun fact. We can use any word to describe being drunk.
"I am absolutely gazebo'd"
"She's completely Trolley'd"
"They are all wankerd"
Getting Phil Mitchell’d mate haha
Shitfaced is popular
I'm Rat Arsed most weekends.
@@bornagaingeek7279 i'm sloshed now!!
As long as its proceeded by either,Absolutely, Completely or Totally 😎👍
when he said "man ass" am i the only one who thought it sounded like he said "mayonnaise" ahaha!
nope you not the only one lol
Me too.
Whah wood y'all menshun that
@@adamjackson2835 I've no idea what this means!
Yep, totally heard mayonnaise 🤣🤣
I'm totally hooked on this channel... big belly laughs every time, your a bright light in a dark world at the mo. Warra goodun..
Boots and trunks both come from the days of horse travel - a boot was a long tube-shaped thing you strapped to the horse to store things, while a trunk was bigger and was strapped to a coach.
We tend to have less of an issue with nudity in the UK.
On our tv we have a 9pm watershed where all the TV companies have agreed to not show nudity, violence in fiction etc after 9pm (its considered as a reasonable time for all minors to be in bed) After we can show pretty much anything. It’s similar with our film & music ratings U, PG, 12, 15 & 18
@@genevievenoble8120 US had a problem with The InBetweeners, Skins, most of Channel 4 programmes actually. We don’t translate well.
@@2503debora i think you forgot to add until before after 9pm!
Maybe because we don't have as much plastic survey or obesity as the states...
Maybe
Naked attractions is for wrongens and perverts and if u go on the show then u got a screw loose
The man ass at the start is from a brit film called "The Full Monty", well worth a look.
Full monty is for pediatric cancer because most men dont see a doctor to tell what they have so they have to show it on tv to tell to see a doctor if theirs any signs that's why they strip
@@michaelpierce826 paediatric? Is that something to do with feet?
Yh sorry I said wrong type of cancer its prostate cancer they do on stage I dont know why I had that in my head
@@scorch1968 you're thinking of podiatry
@@LozzaMonTozza auto correct worked as it should have for a change, the joke on the american misspelling got lost ... I meant pediatric... 🤣
"Shrimp on the Barbie" isn't actually Australian.
It was written by an American, for an American TV advert to visit Australia, staring Crocodile Dundee.
What was he staring at?
@@dunruden9720 The camera.
@@Slye_Fox lmao
That's absolutely true, like the English, the Aussies would say prawn and not shrimp...
@@Slye_Fox hahahahahahaha
Only just discovered your channel but it’s quality!
The saying used to be “what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts” as far as I can recall. The idea that it all evens out in the long run
It would be “a slice short of a pizza”, not “You pizza”.
Or something like a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic
@@LukeCameron-nb3ek or not the sharpest knife in the draw.
@@debblag7139 or not the sharpest tool in the shed
A few biscuits short of a packet is my favourite version
I'm loving these videos because I'm British but I work abroad so it fills that little blank space I have when I feel homesick.
Definitely puts a smile on my face, subbed! From a Brit in Thailand ^_^
The way this county is going u maybe be off out there m8
Cheese and rice for Jesus Christ is like Cockney rhyming slang
That's very new, to me.
@@patrickholt2270 nothing about money like a give me a monkey which equals £500 pony' which is £25 'ton' is £100 score' which is £20 bullseye' is £50 a 'grand' is £1,000 a 'deep sea diver' which is £5
@@waynegray2284 That's traditional. I've heard of most of those. I found it a bit hard to follow because of the lack of commas and full stops, though. Presumably this is where "I don't give a monkeys" comes from.
Is it me or did he just sounded like a aussie when he said cheese and rice pmsl
@@patrickholt2270 as I said it’s “like” it
You could say that you're "chuffed" with how your UA-cam channel is doing so far.
I love your take on us. Your open mindedness and non judgemental learning approach is so refreshing. What a nice guy. I keep coming back to your videos.
Brits have a saying for everything. A fave of mine is people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones! It's similar to the pot calling the kettle black
Americans say that too, I remember it was in a 50 cent song.
Cockney rhyming slang is a whole world of expressions! There are so many gooduns
We used to say 'i'm going for a Eartha' (Eartha Kitt = Sh*t). Now we say I'm going for a Donald.
My favourite is "thruppeny bits". I use it quite a lot when someone is getting on my "thruppenies". Thruppeny bits - tits
I'm a cockney; there are some terms that I use all the time, some that I use frequently, some that I use rarely, and some that I never use.
And, like every other living language, it constantly evolves and changes; some of the terms I'm stuck with mean nothing to younger people, and theirs means nothing to me.
I’m from wales and we say “I’ll be there now in a minute” we say “who’s coat is that jacket” don’t ask why
Another Welsh-ism which always struck me was "I'm going to wash my teeth". Never heard that in England.
Are you on your own or by yourself ?
@@davidjones332 It's said in Ireland, too.
The full saying is:
Who's coat's that jacket hanging on the floor in the corner of a round room.
And I loves it. 😂😂😂
@@IcePigeon123 Reminds me of "I say! said the blind man to his deaf wife over the telephone. "
I love your videos. It's so nice to see you being so positive as a carry on you might find it different to see scottish phrases or slang
Try this Yorkshire phrase
“ Ezz tha gorrit wi thi “
Translated, it means “ do you have it about your person, or, have you got it with you “
My Grandma always used to say “spend a penny”
"Not the full quid" works for saying someone is dim, too. A quid being a pound (£).
"What you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts" is the way I first heard it. Both swings and roundabouts could be part of a travelling funfair, so it's comparing investing in different rides to offer. Since they're also things a town council might invest in as civic amenities - swings in the park for children to play on, roundabouts to make traffic move more smoothly - it's fair enough to be confused.
Umm your explanations don't quite hit the mark, but good try, maybe it's my age and inflation has kicked in but I've always known it as 'Not the full Shilling'...'It's Swings and Roundabouts' is def the kids playground ones, not the funfair or traffic calming measures...means, sometimes things go well, sometimes they don't, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, etc. :)
@@lynnhamps7052 it’s definitely not the full shilling. Londoner born n bred
Bobuk🏴
@@bojojohns870 Cheers lovey, 20 years in central London myself :) x
Not the full shilling is correct
Not the full shilling
Swings and roundabouts! - What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts = nothing gained or lost...
It showed a road round-a-bout as well, not the child's playground ride.
I think it means you did something, but you ended up where you started. Swings and Roundabouts are just 2 examples.
It's only an ass. Watch the full monty, it's a great movie
I agree, it manages to be both funny and poignant.
Ass is a donkey isn't it.. unlike arse LoL
you honestly have to react to only fools and horses, its so british and funny. one of the best episodes is the jolly boys outing.
So true I love them so much
👌 love it
I live in the town they filmed Jolly Boys Outing !
@@ryanbutler3359 Your medal is in the post old boy.
Yessss!
It's just made me chuckle to imagine going to 'spend a penny' in the US and realising it didn't include the sales tax! (chortle, chortle)
Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt
Bob's Your Uncle but Charley's Your Aunt :)
@@Isleofskye Charley's aunt from Brazil where the nuts come from.
The “man ass” is from The Full Monty movie and it’s excellent! You must watch it
I don't use 'Bob's your uncle'.
I tend to go with the more formal, 'Robert's your father's sibling'! 🤣🤣🤣
‘The Full Monty’, which is the film you stopped at because of the bare bottom actually did very well in the US. Although they did have to supply a dictionary for some of the words.
Also, “you slice of pizza!” Has to be one of the best conversions of a Brit saying to American I’ve ever heard!
All fur coat and no knickers and sat like piffy on a rock
You wouldn't say someone was a slice of pizza. But you could say they were a slice short of a full pizza.
2 Carrots short of a casserole, thick as a whale sandwich...head full of rocks..😁
You should react to only fools and horses.
The episode with the blow-up dolls!
The chandelier....
Just to confuse everyone there are coral reefs in the uk there know as cold water corals. And look up guillemots they are basically the uk version of penguins 🐧.
But you can't cover a Guillermot in chocolate like you can a penguin !!
@@danjames5552 no lol 😆 😂 that had me laughing.
they're
@@dunruden9720 ok Grammar police
@@danjames5552 I just laughed so hard I think a bit of pee came out.
I would love to see you react to the British show Gimme Gimme Gimme 😁
We use and know all these in Australia too.
That’s because Aussies are essentially Brits with sun haha
can't believe how fast you have grown 👍 love from england 🏴
I normally can't stand American React vids, but can't get enough of these. Top Work. Fancy across the pond Colab?
Just found this channel, definelty deserves the sub!
A good euphemism for doing a number two is "I'm just going to drop the kids off at the pool"
Here, number two is also a euphemism and possibly British, not universal!
Going for a pony
@@aggy9043 can we leave your love life out of it please! Ha ha
Had a depth charge, slipped a sub into the water, shed your body weight, had a dump, torpedoed the toilet....
@@chrisduncan7257 Very good, but not really Euphemisms.
I was thinking this was gonna be one that goes over stuff that nobody uses but I'm impressed, there's only 1 that I haven't heard of and that was the one from London
cheese and rice, you're almost there with the cockney rhyming slang.
You remind me of my friends and my old home. My accent gets stronger when I watch a bunch of your videos at once! Thanks for helping me smile today. Needed it 🤓
You're a cushty geezer and You have a warm friendly persona. I'm sure other Brits would agree, as we know what, shit and cold is !
Loving your video's. There is so much more to learn...
Different counties have their own sayings and words too.
Whey aye, he’s proper git lush ❤️
You should react to a videos explaining the Pound Sterling also when you come to the UK 🇬🇧 and spend some time all the phrases make sense after awhile and if your confused im sure somebody will gladly explain also don't live in London live in some of other areas I would argue that where the real experience is on the outside of London.
It’s actually “not the full shilling” take it from me LONDONER born n bred
Bobuk🏴
Hey dude, been following you since 2k and I’m just a week and a half you’ve got nearly 8k, this is all down to your humbleness and your just naturally funny, especially because in the uk we would just find your accent hilarious anyway 😂 so goodluck with the channel bro 👏 if your after any other kinds of recommendations to do in the future then let me know 👍
Thank you for the support 🙏
The bum makes perfect sense....in context.
It's from a great movie - the casting scene from The Full Monty.
I suppose that nudity is not a US thing, not in the mainstream at least. What do you do in locker rooms, shower in wet suits and wear them home?
'Apple and Pears' is 'Stairs' in Cockney. They have rhyming slang.
Apples mate, apples. Only a poser would say the whole thing.
Australians don’t say shrimp btw, they say prawns 😂
Yeah but do you actually put them on the Barbie?
No Australians do say shrimp when it's a shrimp and say prawns when it's a prawn they are different animals.
Man's backside ..... Care of The UK Movie 'THE FULL MONTY' ..... Cockney rhyming slang examples - Apples and Pears = stairs - Brown Bread = Dead, Dog and Bone = Phone, Trouble and Strife = Wife - Jack Jones = Alone - ..... Keep it up JT, you will be British before you know it ..... Love from UK .... Paula
Bollocks means something bad, yet if you put "The dogs bollox" it means something really good lol
If you just take the words without the context and the tone it's said in then you're completely lost 😁
yeah the word bollocks confuses foreigners. bollocks = bad, the bollocks = good, the dogs bollocks = the best. bollocks means testicals.
Has anyone here ever heard of the expressions 'It's a bit black over Bill's mothers'?
And if so, where are you from? 😄
Yep, I know that one, I am from Staffordshire.
@@Davey-Boyd yeah, I think it's only a midlands phrase. How would you explain the meaning to someone?
Nottinghamshire, it's standard here
One of my granny’s favourite sayings and I am Yorkshire born and bred. In case you didn’t know it means “it looks like it’s going to rain”.
I'm from Nuneaton :-D
The full saying is Bob's your uncle, fanny's your aunt and the babies name is dripping.
Anyone else say ‘goosey gander’ instead of having a look or butchers hook? Haha
i recommend that you watch a video on cockney rhyming slang, it’s the most fun type of slang
lol but make sure it's done by a proper cockney! I've seen some "how to talk cockney" vids done by Americans that had me falling about laughing, they were so bad.
You are such a genuine, likeable guy.
Haven't you seen "The Full Monty"? That's where the bum shot is from. It was filmed in Sheffield, where I live. :)
btw if you want to know 1:55 that movie is called the full monty and it's an 18+ in england cause of nudity
🤣🤣 Can't believe they showed that scene from Full Monty at the start, his reaction was quality😂
I need to get my work done but ur vids keep coming up on my recomended and i rlly want to watch them all
you could also say " you fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down" or my personal favourite " you're a few pennies short of a quid"
Here's a cockney rhyming slang little ditty that younger cockney's probably won't understand, but just know it as a short childhood song... "Half a pound of tuppeny rice, half a pound of treacle, that's the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel".
To explain it, this childhood song came from the east end of London, when times were really tough in the 18th and 19th century's, the first bit is self explanatory, Half a pound of two penny rice ( cockney, tuppenny) half a pound of treacle, that's the way the money goes ( Now the confusing part) pop goes the weasel. The word pop in the 1800 and 1900's, meant to pawn something at a pawn brokers, the weasel comes from rhyming slang "weasel and stoat = coat. So this ditty is describing very harsh times, when just buying the basics to feed yourself (rice & treacle) would very often mean you had no money left, so had to go to a pawnbrokers (pop) to pawn an item of clothing ( in this case a coat, weasel, or weasel & stoat.)
ok, that actually makes a lot of sense. I always wondered what the heck that song was about! Thank you!
I have used every one of these 😂😂 I’m loving your videos keep it up !!
I agree you must watch The Full Monty you may have trouble with some of the accents as its based in Sheffield but its a very funny and at time poinetent film that anyone who has fallen on hard times at some point can relate to
You’re so funny 😆 JT, just found your vlog and it’s great ! 👍 love from England 🏴
What no "Shut your cake hole" or "put wood in hole"
Tha makes a better door than tha does a window
@@madabbafan I lad they dose
Or shut yer trap (I don’t mean you)
Put a lid on it
Turn it up (stop doing it)
Draw a line (stop it)
"Six of one half a dozen of the other" is said more than "swings and roundabouts"
Or '6 & half a dozen' or '6 & 1'
Completely different meanings. The first one means 'they're as both as bad/to blame as each other'.
Thanks for the laugh! I needed it today ☺️
That from film called Full Monty
JT thanks for the barrel of laughs mate good video
Just discovered this channel - great content and Hi from London UK
The Full Monty, great film 😂😂
I love your videos! I’m from the uk and love your reactions to how we do things ☺️☺️☺️
I always find that "Bell end" is a good insult. I use it as often as possible when speaking to Irish people :)
In Plymouth ( UK) we say "geddon"
LOL, awtassculous video! It was trubolic and so humilarian. Greetings from UK. Have subbed you faster than the speed of cucumbers 😊
what part of the UK are you from? I'm British born and bred (Although mostly Northern/North East) and your comment had me scratching my head in confusion! Like... all of it except for Greetings from UK. I could hazard a guess at it all of course but..I wanna know where they all originate from!!!
I'm binge watching love this channel fabulous 👌
If anyone struggles with any british terminology it's usually best to assume the problem word means disappointing or sub par.
I dunno. What about "The bees knees"? That actually means feeling good. "I looked the bees knees in that" I looked amazing in it.
You're a good fella. You do Americans justice, keep up the good work mate, England loves you
The “swings and roundabouts” expression, came about because kids were taken to the park. Say the had 30 minutes playtime. Then they’d have to chose. For themselves, how to divide their time. More time on the swings = less on the roundabout. So if you’re in the supermarket and have to split your money between buying bananas and apples, then it’s ‘swings and roundabouts.’ The more apples you get, the fewer bananas you can get.... etc; it’s all swings and roundavouts
“Imagine if you had to get taxed on it” except tax in the UK is already included in prices...come on JT, get your head in the game!
Britain isn't just England, there's some great Scottish comedy out there.
Still Game is my fave..
The video was wrong re swings and roundabouts which actually means - some you win, some you lose.
Cracking post mate.....check out “How's your belly off for spots”
Great posts and yes I'm in the UK.
The full monty is a brilliant film you should watch it.
Bob's your uncle should be And, Bob's your uncle. As in job done or finished the job
we have so many words for "have a look", gander, scan, skeg etc etc
The ass shot comes from the film The Full Monty - about a group on unemployed men in a depressed northern city (the one I grew up in) becoming strippers. After the film, it became a stage play and is fairly popular with a full "reveal" at the end of the show
Lol
Bob's your Uncle
Fanny's your Aunt!!
My mum still says spend a penny,
Or you could say popping to the loo my dad used to call it the library lmao
The "ass" (arse) is from The Full Monty movie. It is about a group of unemployed men who become amateur Chippendale male strippers. It's hilarious.
Chuffed to bits I use a LOT! My other half’s brother is affectionately called Plonker by the family. Sod’s law comes up a lot, it’s like “well it’s typical that it happened to me because I have bad luck”. Have a butchers or have a gander are used quite a lot by people I know, as in “lets take a look.”
“Whats good for the goose is good for the gander” is also a common one, meaning if it’s good enough for you it’s good enough for me.
On the pull is really prolific, going out on the pull to bag a mate for some nookie. (Nookie = sex, some shagging) Spending a Penny is a polite way of saying you need a pee and that’s quite common in polite company, taking a leak or a piss if not in polite company.
Taking the Michael or Taking the Mickey is one, that means your tricking someone or making fun of them, taking the piss also.
Great video! You should react to British Parliament debates and see some of the phrases they use.
Haha the full monty is a class movie