20 British Slang Phrases Tourists Need To Know (Live English Lesson with Anna English)

hello everyone welcome to today's live English lesson today we're going to be learning 20 British slang phrases that you need to know especially if you are a tourist or if you live in a country where you have lots of British tourists so if you're hanging out with British people and they're coming to visit your country or you are coming to visit our country then these are the slang terms that are going to be really helpful for you because they're ones that we use all the time so it's lovely to have you all here please do feel free to write your comments to use these slang terms in a sentence so that we can get practice at using them properly I will look at some of those practice sentences and correct them as we go that's the point of being live so do try and use them in comments down below also if you're enjoying this then please do show your appreciation by giving it a thumb up and if you're new here welcome make sure you press that subscribe button and the Bell notification button next to subscribe so that you don't miss any future lessons now today I spent a lot of time creating a beautiful little ebook for you so that we have these very nice-looking notes let me just show this to you so the essential British slang for tourists we're going to work through this book now just so you know if you are a patron if you drop a super chat or if you make a donation this week via the links in the description box below then I will as a thank you send you this ebook for free if you want to just buy the ebook then it is also available to download from my website and the link is also in the description box below I do really appreciate everyone who supports me and supports this channel particularly those people who go the extra mile and provide financial support to help the channel to keep running and to grow so everyone can benefit so the least I can do is to send you a copy of ebook which I will do soon all right so here we go let's get started with the first of 20 essential phrases and slang terms that you need to know if you are a tourist so here we go let me bring these back up for you so working through this speak the lingo slang for tourists the essentials it's important to remember that slang is informal and should be used in relaxed situations with people you are more familiar with or with people who behave in an informal manner with you this list will give you an idea of the phrases you are likely to hear if you are a tourist in the UK or if British tourists are visiting your country so the first one the list is alright alright now alright you alright or alright mates are quick ways of asking if everything is okay so if you look lost or in distress then someone may approach you and ask alright mate now the example sentence I've given for this one is alright mate sorry I didn't mean to barge into you like that so this is very much a very relaxed way of just saying is everything okay so someone might just ask you if you don't look okay they might say you alright they might ask you when they first meet you hi yeah alright just like you say how are you alright you're right mate they might say it if for a like in the example if they've hurt you or they've offended you in some way they may go alright mate is everything okay sorry I didn't mean to do that so this is something you may or may not hear let me know if you have heard it before or if it's something that you use regularly okay lots of you in saying hello hello hello so do try to use these phrases as we're going through in sentences I'll keep looking in the chat rooms try to use them in a sentence and I will correct them if I see them and if I have chance so the next one on the list the next slang term is Bugsy or what I now use more commonly shotgun so if someone shouts this then well let's go through it if you're traveling with a native and you hear them shout shotgun or bagsy it means that they are claiming something which is limited therefore not everyone in the group can have it now commonly this is used when traveling in a car shotgun is called to choose the front seat or if you're boarding a bus you may call Shotgun for the window seat there is no negotiating with bagsy or shotgun it simply whoever calls it first and the example sentence I've given here is come on let's pick up the higher car oh and shotgun driving first so that means come on let's go and pick up the higher car and I'm gonna drive first shotgun driving first so that's what we would do we'd say shotgun and then say what it is you are shotgunning so come on kids everyone get in the car and the eldest kid might go shotgun sitting in the front seat or shotgun passenger seat if you are in a in a group of people all going together on a coach trip you and your friends might go shotgun backseat that means you have got the rights to the backseat because you said it first it's quite immature kids do use it all the time but adults also use it particularly with their friends I certainly use it and lots of my friends have used it with me - do you have something similar in your country let me know in the comments I would love to know okay so that's - now that we've learnt shotgun or bagsy and all right so Marlena hello Marlena you've said all right you look very pale so you're saying is everything okay you look quite pale great so you're inquiring about my health thank you very much okay anything else come through all right anna says more half grapes put a question mark after it and that would be perfect and also whenever you write someone's name always capitalize it that's first answer surname always capitalized them again arm edge you've said all right you look tired if you're using all right as a question make sure you use question marks not exclamation marks okay fantastic okay so let's have a look at my a Skype chat room I can see quite a lot of my patrons in hello patrons how are you so I've got Francesca how how are we Francesca you do that the other way around not how we are but how are we you'd say how are we all question mark oh so sorry bye silly eyes I misread that completely here we are of course no need to correct that that's perfect Francesca forgive me jean-baptiste hello howdy what's up nothing's up we're all good thank you hi Julia all right yeah I'm all right are you all right and Garcia is there any tea left shotgun through your shotgunning any tea that's left in the pot is that okay yes that is perfect well done fantastic okay so you might even use it with say the last piece of cake so there's one more piece of cake left shotgun I'm getting it okay so and lots of you are telling me about the versions that you use of shotgun in your country and it's really interesting to look at I'll definitely read through all of those when I finish the lesson so what's next on the list well we have all this is a good one Bob's your uncle Bob's your uncle has any anyone heard this before anyone got any idea what it means well let's look at it together Bob's your uncle similar to a voila if you speak French then you'll know that this phrase means there you go or you're all set voila voila so for example if you're in a new car maybe you're hiring a car when you go abroad and it's an automatic car and it doesn't have a key that you would stick into an ignition and like oh but how do I start the engine and they say to start the engine depress oh dear I've made a mistake there because I changed press to depress so it ignored down ignore that word depress the brake and at the same time ah uh I've made two typos I need to correct this goodness me okay okay after the lesson I need someone to proofread everything for me don't I so they should read to start the engine to press the brake and at the same time push the start button and Bob's your uncle so to start the engine to press the brake and at the same time push the start button and Bob's your uncle okay apologies about those terrible typos but at least when I go through it with you I spot them so I can correct that one later so Bob's your uncle eh voila can you think of any other examples where you would use Bob's your uncle if so please write it in the comment section below what's getting a little dark the Sun is going in so what is next after Bob's your uncle you will have the word Rolly in the notes let's have a look Broly what is a Brawley well a Brawley in the UK is something you will definitely need it refers to an umbrella umbrella have I spelt that right hmm I'll have to double check that one anyone who's really good at spelling tell me if I spelled umbrella incorrectly it suddenly looks wrong oh dear what a day so a Brawley is the common slang is common slang for umbrella which you will definitely need when visiting the UK as it rains a lot here no matter what the season is and the example sentence I've given is excuse me madam don't forget your Brawley this is something you'll probably hear if you are about to step off a train and you've left your brother behind or maybe you're in a restaurant and you put your brother to one side waiting for it to dry and you're about to go out now it's beautiful sunshine and the waiter might chase you and say excuse me madam don't forget your Brawley okay okay Thank You Julia tell me tells me that umbrella is well spelt thank you very much that makes me feel better okay good all right so I have an example sentence here from Gazoo I hope I pronounced that correctly you've said Bob's your uncle the dinner is ready sorry the dinner is served very good use of it well done Fanny's your aunt yes so sometimes people extend this phrase to Bob's your uncle Fanny's your aunt and dicks your best friend so Bob Fannie and Dick are all terms that are used as name so dick is short for Richard dick is short for Richard Fanny was a popular girls name in the old days nowadays it's not so much but both of these names could also be crude terms for other things which is why they're not very popular as names anymore and we generally just shorten down the phrase to Bob's your uncle okay okay so next we're going to go on to bog standard so bog standard if something is bog standard then it means let me just bring it up for you if something is bog standard it means it's it's normal it's Ordinary there is nothing special about it so you might get a bog standard meal you might get a bog standard hire car it's just a bog standard dress it's just a bog standard pair of flip-flops what have you bought recently that was bog standard this is a perfectly normal phrase to use you'll see people even talking about it in formal situations it's bog standard so it just means nothing special the example centers let's hope I've not made any typos here the example sentence is what type of accommodation are you looking for we have several bog-standard hotels nearby and a very swanky 5-star hotel on the high street so the word swanky if you're not familiar means very posh is very nice it's got all the frills and all the extra special bits and bobs so a very swanky 5-star hotel on the high street okay so bog-standard the next one is butchers if I say to you I want to have a butcher's or let's have a butcher's then I don't mean that I'm interested in a shop that sells meat because the butcher's a butcher's shop is where the butcher works and he cuts up meat and sells meat for you to cook so here I've written if someone says they fancy a butcher's they are not necessarily in need of some raw meat this means they would like to take a look it originates from cockney rhyming slang butcher's hook take a look ok so while you are in London you should take a butcher's at Big Bend and booking Buckingham Palace so what should I have a butcher's at when I'm in your country so just use it exactly the same as the word look at so take a butcher's at I want to look at what should I take a butcher's at while I'm in your country do let me know in the comments below so we've got butchers bog-standard Brawley Bob's your uncle bagsy or shotgun and alright mate or so I've said another thing that someone doesn't understand and Sonia has asked what does bits and bobs mean bits and bobs is just lots of little things that are unimportant so in my handbag I'll probably have my phone and my wallet and other bits and bobs unimportant things receipts a hankerchief some lip gloss something like that maybe a tangerine something to starve off the hunger stave off the hunger sorry if if I'm suddenly hungry while I'm out so bits and bobs little things okay my car my last car was just a bog-standard model says Lannon fantastic really great example let me have a look see what my patrons are saying see if you have some good examples here to make a cheesecake you have to prepare the biscuit base with digestive biscuits and butter then you can prepare the cream with cheese and Greek yogurt wait three hours and Bob's your uncle fantastic Francesca thank you so much and mmm that has made me hungry oh gosh I said anyone still fasting I'm I can't remember whether the fasting season is done now but um if you are fasting I do apologize oh I've just talked about being hungry and about delicious cheesecake okay jean-baptiste says I remember from a trip a friend I remember from a trip a friend in the you I remember from a trip comma a friend in the u.s. called shotgun to sit in the front to sit in the front next to the driver while hopping in into the car I asked her what it meant and that has an A in it as well M EA NT and while explaining she told me that it came from the old stagecoach days when the guy next to the driver was holding the shotgun to defend in case of an attack I don't know if that's true it sounds like it could be true and thank you for sharing that little bit of history with us that's better I always loved the origin of phrases in Italy pasta is a bog-standard meal and I love pasta and I'm going to be in Italy very soon so I'm very excited about all the pasta I'll be eating at the shop hi may I help you no thanks just taking a butcher's perfect giulia perfect sales assistant are you looking for anything in particular just be careful of your spelling there me I just want to take a butcher's thanks perfect well done ladies really nice examples they're very very good and any examples coming through here does bog-standard mean bad in any way says Durr Dave know the word bog on its own can be a crude word for the toilet so if I say to you can use your bog or I've just been in the bog it stinks that's really not a nice way to talk it's not like a swear word but it's it's just a bit crude some people use it regularly but I wouldn't I don't like the word bog for toilet to be honest but everyone's different right bog standard however doesn't have any negative connotations other than it just means ordinary so if you're calling something bog standard you're saying it's ordinary I don't really see that as offensive okay so let's go back to those notes and see what is next on the list so we've had all these ones chock-a-block is the next one chock-a-block this is a good one so this means very busy it's chock-a-block chakra block and if you're visiting popular tourist spots then it is likely that at times it will be chock-a-block the example that I've given here is if you ask me I would suggest that you avoid the town center today with the carnival going on it is going to be chakra block okay nice and easy when is it chock-a-block in your main town do you have a certain time of year or a certain event that goes on that means your your town your local area is chock-a-block where I live I'm very close to one of the palaces and this means that when the Sun is out why it's like school holidays then on the weekend then we have lots of visitors so around that area near the palace during those times it can be chock-a-block and I always try and avoid going in that direction if I'm heading out of town because I don't want to get caught in all the traffic because it's guaranteed to be chock-a-block okay Amanda said I'm chock-a-block we don't use it in that respect we always use it to mean busy with lots of things as in like the area is busy so there are lots of people yeah norm we're normally using it when talking about lots of people or animals perhaps in one place so I might say I got I couldn't get on the train this morning it was chock-a-block so it means full of things full of people does that make more sense the shop was chock-a-block today I could barely move could you say I was chock-a-block today no I I think just think of it as being full of people and that will help you to use that one correctly I gathered with my friends says cameo I gathered with my friends and it was really chock-a-block you gathered we're so when you see using chock-a-block say the place the town was chock-a-block it was chock-a-block on the train the museum was chock-a-block so I would use chock-a-block and always say the location that was chock-a-block the road is going to be chock-a-block because of the rock concert says um it's well done just make sure you use an article with that centers omit and that's perfect I couldn't arrive to the supermarket because the place was if you're talking in the past I could not because it was chock-a-block and you'd use at the supermarket is the right preposition for a place I was trying to go to the supermarket or I couldn't arrive at the supermarket mmm I couldn't go to that would work I couldn't go to the supermarket because it was chock-a-block okay all right so let's carry him that's Kari we've got lots to get through were only at number seven and we have 20 to go so Oh 20 in total so we have cost a bomb is another one that you might hear if you are especially if you're in London for a holiday to cost a bomb no we don't mean that you literally have to use bombs as payment absolutely not that would be silly if something cost a bomb then it means it was very expensive so cost a bomb we're talking about the past it cost a bomb if we're talking about something that you haven't yet bought or something in the present then you say costs with an S on the end cost a bomb it costs a bomb how much does it cost it costs a bomb and I've said I hope this is a good restaurant the food costs a bomb so I'm obviously looking at the menu and I'm very concerned about the prices of all the dishes the price of all the food on the menu because it seems to cost a bomb so you try and use that now in a sentence and the next one which is quite an easy one is the word faff think of faff meaning to mess or to waste time to faff is to waste time doing something unimportant sometimes when traveling you can end up wasting time faffing around or faffing about we can say to faff around or faff about looking for a toilet or looking for a PowerPoint perhaps to charge your phone or trying to work out where you are there's lots of faff isn't there when you're traveling so here is the example sentence we mustn't we mustn't miss our connection today so no faffing around just pack and let's go so in that example I imagined I was talking to my brother and I said to my brother look we mustn't miss our connection today we're getting a train to the next town we mustn't miss our connection today so no faffing around he normally fafsa round doing making himself look pretty shaving and picking a shirt changing to something else going no I don't like this outfit faffing around maybe doing his toenails ooh faffing around so I say look we mustn't be label always late because you faff around but not today you mustn't be late no faffing around just pack let's go I'm sure you've all fast around at some point or been delayed by someone who does faff around ok so let's have a look at you guys using these last two examples so to faff or to cost a bomb so does faff have anything to do with kerfuffle it sounds similar doesn't it faff means to do some waste time you're wasting time stop faffing about kerfuffle means a little bit of a bit of trouble there's been a bit of a commotion so perhaps if an argument breaks out it's not a serious one just a couple of old ladies arguing about I don't know whether they should feed the ducks or not so just a silly unimportant argument is a kerfuffle a little bit of a commotion but to faff about is different it doesn't mean a commotion to faff around you can do faffing around completely silently and it doesn't have to disturb anybody ok fawful disturbs the peace whereas faffing around is just doing things that are unimportant ok let's go through the books says Kishan let's go through the books no faffing around perfect well done good example teenagers these days faff around with their mobile phone says Amit faff without the s teenagers faff around ok camellia says the last the last iPhone sorry the last iPhone that should be one word the last iPhone which I bought cost me a bomb so cost in the past tense it's just cost okay so the last iPhone I bought you don't need the word which either the last iPhone I bought cost a bomb good and yes iPhones do cost a bomb I didn't get a new iPhone this time I just allowed my boyfriend to buy a new iPhone and then I took his old one yay for me because they're so expensive okay so let me have a quick look at my patron room and then we'll move on hello patrons so what have we said all this hello lovely to see you said all you have to do is pop out of the shop get box don't get ah tense ah the tent get a bog-standard tent and Brawley then get back home in a jiffy oh very good a jiffy means to do it very quickly pack your bags and Bob's your uncle we're ready to go well done all this I'm very very proud of you using all of those slang terms in one go that's fantastic well done and I'd have missed as well Lucy Honeychurch hello Lucy how are you you said hello Anna and you've dropped a 2 euro soup chat it's lovely to have you here Lucy and I am as I've said sending this ebook to anyone who donates to this channel so anyone off donations that come in any soup chats that happened during this lesson and anyone who is a patron this month will receive a copy of this ebook just as my way of saying thank you very much for your support I will of course correct the typo that I've made so that you're not getting a bad book but a very good eBook thank you very much okay so next after faff we have full monty has anyone ever seen the film The Full Monty now generally full monty in Britain if someone talks about The Full Monty they're talking about a full English breakfast so the full English breakfast may be described as the full monty and it's definitely worth trying if you haven't if you haven't come across a full English breakfast before then do have a look through my old videos on my video tab there's over 350 videos there waiting for you and within it you will find a video all about the full English breakfast and it's it's quite a mouthful I can tell you but it's also well worth trying I always think when you're in a country you should try the local dishes try the local delicacies and the full English breakfast is definitely a standard meal not to stand a meal a traditional meal of the of the of England so you should definitely give it a try and here we go the example is can we order breakfast please we all want the full monty fabulous nice and easy vlog is the next one if you flog something it means to sell and as a tourist unfortunately there will always be someone trying to sell something to you we've all had it haven't we we're trying to enjoy our holiday we're walking around a tourist attraction and there's always people in your face trying to get you to buy some it's hat usually its hat means some tat is something that's not of good quality so it might be like a little plastic doll or it might be a flag or something that's just a tea that you will only have for a little while and then you'll probably get rid of it or it'll break or something like that so a bit of tat some people like a bit of tat it's good to have a bit of tat every now and again as a child I loved tat as an adult I hate hat you could say I've got a bit of tat around the room but oh you know what can we do so the word flog to sell something to flog it to sell it so has anyone tried to flog you something while you were on holiday it can only be used to for sell you could say I bought something she was flogging it so I bought it okay and so try and put that into a sentence now and let's see if you can use that properly and then we've got the word gaffe now if someone invites you to their gaffe what they're saying is come to my house my gaff it's another word for home for example if someone invites you to their gaff it means that you are invited to their home here's an example of using the word gaffe hang on hang on here for 10 minutes hang on means wait hang on here for 10 minutes I just need to pop into my gaff to grab a change of clothes okay so gaff nice and easy all right let's have a look at what you guys are making of the last few examples so lisa is trying to flog a silly idea to me will cost you a bomb fantastically well done yes one of um Nagi Nagi has pointed out there's a BBC programme called flog it and it's all about people selling stuff flog it a man flogged me a cheap product while my visit to Taj Mahal at Agra I'm I'm assuming Agra is place in which the Taj Mahal is in India of course a flock flocked where is to geez not one so a man flogged me a cheap product while I was visiting while I was visiting the Taj Mahal and then that would be perfect okay gaff is a very informal word isn't it yes Sonia you're absolutely right gaff is very informal I don't use gaff but lots of my friends do particularly if they're from London a lot of my London friends will say my gaff it's not offensive in any way but it is informal okay all right I think I have 216 of you here I want to say hi to you all thank you for joining me if you haven't already and you're finding this helpful please do show your appreciation by giving it a thumb and if you not subscribed then you know what to do smash that subscribe button ok so the next one on the list after flogged and gaff is the word grub grub now grub is used often you might hear the phrase pub grub and if you caught the episode where I went to the pub with with it's a Sarah and Layla from love English if you saw that episode then you would have heard the term pub grub grub up means food it's not the word for food so it's a slang word for food and in the pub that serves food you may hear the term pub grub ok the example I've given is let's meet by the fountain and find somewhere nice to have a bit of grub so perhaps if I'm visiting your country and you say is there anything I can help you with do you need any advice I might say where can I find some local grub I'm really hungry but I want some local food and you'll say oh there's there's a nice place down the road that does some really great grub this is a good word after grub we have the word gutted I use this word often to be gutted it means to be devastated a slang term for devastated you will be gutted if you miss your flight for example or you experience a bad you experience bad weather during your trip so for example last week was it last week or the week before I went camping in Wales and I was having lots of adventures I wanted to do a day paddle boarding on the water on the lake but we had one of the worst storms that the UK has had for a very long time with lots of thunder and lightning and flooding I was gutted because it meant that I couldn't spend a day paddle boarding on the lake so at that point I was gutted I was gutted about the weather so what have you been gutted about when you've taken the trip or something bad happened were you gutted or were you not gutted perhaps some things like this don't bother you if there are mists perhaps on holiday perhaps it doesn't bother you at all okay hello Andreas how you hello George and yes lots of you in hi hi hi so please do try to use the word gutted and what was the other one grub gutted and grub der dave says gutted is also used a lot as a one word response right yes that's absolutely right so for example let's imagine I've gone to a restaurant and maybe it's a self-serve restaurant so I go up it's a buffet I fill my plate with this amazing food I start walking towards the table and I trip and my food falls out of my hand the plate turns over my food goes everywhere all over the floor then you might look at me and go ah gutted yeah so it's your way of saying oh that's devastating gutted you must be gutted and I go oh yeah got it my food is all over the floor okay Arthur hello Arthur you say let's let's get some grub in your gaff your mother would be disappointed if we don't eat her special Full Monty great and I would say at your gaff so let's grab some grub at your gaff full stop your mother will be disappointed if we don't eat her special full monty perfect okay [Music] Neelam you said poor people always gutted I I would disagree with that sentiment and so that that statement it doesn't really work because I think that sentiment is off obviously being devastated is it's quite a big thing but poor people can also be quite happy they not always miserable and devastated they might live a harsh life but there are poor people who live quite happily and can have happy times okay what else have we got I was gutted after the after the today cricket match result after today's with an s it has to be possessive after today's cricket match result I was gutted good okay let's move on to the next one Oh quickly just julia has said I'm gutted I need some pub grub to lift my mood up perfect junior well done good use of both of those slang terms alright let's jump straight back on over to our notes after gutted we have oh I didn't do the example sentence today we travelled all the way from Brazil to see this football match and it's been cancelled we are just gutted Oh No gutted okay so hole in the wall is another one very important so this is a common term for a cash machine so where you go to pull your cash out of the wall we call it sometimes a hole in the wall I am sure that at some point during your trip you'll need to find a hole in the wall though in many cities particularly in London in the UK cards can be used for nearly all transactions the example sentence I've given here is imagining I'm a taxi driver I will drop you off at a hole in the wall so that you can get some cash out and that sometimes is the case if you're getting into a taxi you might have to say to the taxi driver do you take card or is it cash only if they're cash only and you don't have any cash on you you might say can you stop at a cash point or do you know where there's a hole in the wall and then they would say yeah I'll stop at a hole in the wall you can get some cash out and then we'll go now like I said in London and in the major cities these days your card will pretty much cover every transaction even small transactions like 50 P or a pound particularly contactless cards as well it's becoming very very easy to use your card and so for example I never carry cash ever and when I went to Wales or when I go outside of the city into the countryside if I want to go and buy a cup of tea somewhere and one pal fifty for a cup of tea sometimes they don't take card they only take cash and this happened to me last weekend I couldn't buy lunch or a bottle of water because I had no cash and they didn't take cards and we were out of town there were no holes in the wall anywhere so I had to suffer unfortunately okay so there you go all right so the next one on the list is to mind the gap this is something you will hear if you are taking a train so - mind the gap you'll see it or hear this in train stations and famously in the London Underground it's usually painted on the platform as well it refers to the space between the platform and the Train and it reminds you to be careful when stepping on and off the train because you don't want to fall down that gap so mind the gap be careful of the gap okay so just something to listen out for mind the gap and you'll definitely know you're in London if you hear a train driver saying that all right the next one's quite a fun one and it's not your cup of tea some of you will know this already but if something is not your cup of tea then it is not the type of thing that you like it can refer to anything you can say a person is not your cup of tea you could say there's nothing wrong with her she's just not my cup of tea you could say that a food is not your cup of tea so for example you could say English food is just not my cup of tea or an activity for example I might say that mountain biking is not my cup of tea it's just not something I like doing or taking or eating okay so I like you to tell me what is not your cup of tea or in the opposite in the opposite way you can say it is my cup of tea so you might say all outdoors activities is my cup of tea or languages or English like the English language is my cup of tea YouTube is my cup of tea so you can talk about it in both ways things that you are interested in things that you really are not interested in so Amit says public speaking is not my cup of tea Sonia says in Australia and we say that's not your beer that's not your coffee oh really to mean this thing sorry in Austria not Australia hi misread in Austria that's very interesting so in the same way that I would say it's not my cup of tea you'd say that's not not your beer I didn't know that this type of love isn't my cup of tea interesting um tea is not my cup of tea very good Zomba is not my cup of tea but I do it once a week yes exercise is good you have to try and find something that is your cup of tea but exercise is good no matter what it is drawing is not my cup of tea science is my cup of tea do Americans say the cup of tea expression I don't know to be honest I would love to know if any Americans are watching please let us know do you use it do you understand it have you heard it okay mo said watching Anna's videos is my cup of tea thank you very much okay fantastic so coffee is my cup of tea says Andreas let me have a look at these comments actually a few things I could do here so let's just go back a man was flogging amazing homemade artworks very good we had to haggle for a long time but at the end it still cost me a bomb I was gutted I would say in the end but in the end it still cost me a bomb I was gutted that's really really nice that's a really nice paragraph we put together there well done I could come to hear the ac/dc but I must tell you rock music is not my cup of tea I don't think we need the because it's a name of band I I could come to hear ac/dc but I must tell you rock music is not my cup of tea yeah I'd lose the junior otherwise brilliant coffee not like a cup of tea very nice andreas either it's mine because you're saying oh sorry is my cup of tea is my cup of tea I in this one Julie you'd say mine too it is mine too okay this doesn't work so mine too would be the response to say I feel the same way as you andreas okay let's jump back we're getting close to the end so the next one I love this one is pear-shaped pear-shaped if something is pear-shaped or something has gone normally talk about it going it's gone pear-shaped it's going pear-shaped it might go pear-shaped then it means it has gone wrong or it has not gone to plan normally in a negative way so if it's gone bad it's gone wrong it's not gone to plan then it has gone pear-shaped an example I've given is we had hoped to have a family picnic in the park but it's all gone pear-shaped let's imagine that it started to rain there's hurricane-force winds maybe there are a swarm of killer bees and they are all in the park and so you can't go into the park because of the skill of bees maybe all the food that you bought for the picnic lover was left in the car overnight and it got hot and it's all ruined I think it's like ah it's just all gone pear-shaped this beautiful family picnic day we were going to have it's all gone wrong it's all gone pear-shaped good good expression pear-shaped the next one on the list and I like this one also is a spanner in the works a spanner in the works this refers to something that gets in the way of or disrupts your plans so if something gets in the way of your plans then it is a in the works so for example I've written we have been training to climb Everest but David's broken ankle has thrown a spanner in the works we often use it with throw to throw a spanner in the works so for example if we are planning a trip together and we're very excited about our trip we've booked our accommodation we've booked our flights we're now planning exactly what we're going to do each day and then I suddenly have a big job interview for a job I've wanted for ages and I can't miss it but it's it's right in the middle of our holiday I might have to come in and say I'm really sorry but I'm going to have to throw a spanner in the works I'm going to have to disrupt our plans I am throwing a spanner in the works I can't come ah okay so have you ever had someone throw a spanner in the works or something has something thrown a spanner in the works to disrupt your plans completely and then we look at the last one on the list but there are some bonus slang terms after this but the last one on the list officially is to splash out something that we all need to do every now and again to splash out to splash out is to spend a lot of money on something considered a treat we often splash out on holiday don't we and the example I've given is this is our last holiday before the baby arrives so we plan to splash out on a fancy hotel and the best restaurants now I was thinking about my own situation for this one of course I'm taking a trip to Italy which I've mentioned before and it is our last trip before the baby is born so it's our last trip as a couple just the two of us enjoying freedom before we become parents and life changes forever so we are limited to a budget but we will splash out I'm sure on occasion will splash out and have maybe a couple of nights very nice restaurant and enjoy some really lovely Italian food what have you splashed out on recently do you feel guilty when you splash out I think it's important to treat ourselves but do you ever splash out Mohammed said I splash out on shopping shopping for what shopping for foods shopping for clothes shopping for gadgets what do you like to splash out on Neelam says I am pear-shaped on the Run Road that doesn't quite work remember something goes pear-shaped it's a plan that goes wrong so normally we don't go pear-shaped a plan goes pear-shaped make sense what else do we have I wanted to go for a walk but there was but there were so many people who wanted to flog stuff to us that we headed back we don't need soon I would say shortly after but we but we soon headed back that would work there were so many people who wanted flock to flog stuff to us that we soon headed back ok I was gutted I hope that makes sense Anja camellia says we've been rehearsing for one hour but unfortunately in the fifth song my guitar Springs spanner in the works my guitar strings my guitar strings broke throwing a spanner in the works my guitar string was broke throwing a spanner in the works ok I would often use throw with that particular phrase anymore for anymore can I see any more dough dave says this sounds like a spanner has been thrown into the gears of a machine that's exactly how I envisage it as well that's a really good way to think about it my interview has gone has gone gon II has gone pear-shaped oK you've written got pair of shape that's not quite right my into has gone pear shaped okay good I hope you have a wonderful holiday says Natalia thank you but all went pear-shaped because of the bad weather oh you're saying like sorry I thought you're wishing me a good holiday but what you're saying is I hoped to have a wonderful holiday but all went pear-shaped because of bad weather my apologies I can't read today that is perfectly correct well done okay I used to splash out for party I used to splash out on parties okay all right so we would have a weekend in the suburb suburbs usually we use an S with that we'd plural suburbs but his sudden disease became a pear-shaped no we'd say the plans went wrong so the plans went pear-shaped because of his sudden disease the plans suddenly went pear-shaped because of his disease okay that would work the plans the plans went pear-shaped because of his disease okay all right now I did say that we have some bonus slang terms and it's all around needing the bathroom because we all need to use facilities don't we so finally we will all need to use the facilities when on our travels in the UK we will often use the following phrases when we are needing to use the toilet so to spend a penny if you need to spend the penny it means that you need a wee you need a wee wee so I need to spend a penny it's just very very polite way of saying I need a wee nice and easy we can also use these terms I need the bathroom or could I use your bathroom I often use this one and it's funny because the rooms that we're looking for don't need to have a bath and often they don't in a restaurant I might say could you tell me where the bathroom is please and I'm just asking for the toilet for me bye room just sounds more polite I don't know why I say it but if someone's asking for the bathroom they're probably needing the toilet not a bath okay we also might use simply toilet or loo is quite a common one here I need the loo where is the loo please where is the toilet and we often refer to the loos or the toilets as ladies or gents so you might say could you tell me where the ladies is shown where the jens's or I'm just popping to the ladies for a moment to pop somewhere is to go somewhere quickly I'm just popping to the ladies for a moment to powder my nose okay fantastic so thank you so much everyone for joining me I do hope that you found that helpful we have spent nearly an hour together now learning these phrases these slang terms that I do hope will be helpful for you if you are taking a trip in the UK all of the terms included are common very very common terms I tried to really base it around travel so I do hope that it's being useful in some way but if it hasn't then it has still been lovely to have your company today thank you again to Lucy for that donation thank you - there's a couple of people this week who sent me one off donations via my PayPal account just saying thank you very much and I really really do appreciate that it's always a lovely surprise when people want to donate and help out and a huge thank you also to my patrons I'll be sending these notes over to you patrons and when I get chance to do the next newsletter and anyone who does sign up for patreon in the next few days will also get a copy of that - all right so the plan is for me to go live again on Friday usually around midday but I'll announce exactly what time I'll be able to run the lesson via Facebook and via Instagram so do make sure you're following me there the links down in the description box below otherwise there will be some more videos coming this week and then after that I'm away for two weeks but hopefully I'll have a few videos coming out while I'm on my travels so do stay tuned make sure you've clicked subscribe and that bail notification button so you don't miss out on those and if you're missing me terribly which I'm sure you will not but if you do there are over 350 videos here for you to go have a look at so please do take some time to look at my video tab otherwise the ciao I will speak to you all again on Friday lots of love from London take care and [Music] you

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Length: 56min 28sec (3388 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 11 2018