What English language expression do you like the most?

[Dave7]

"Nowt as queer as folk" is a favourite of mine...

Good old Ena Sharples

 

[Moon bunny]

The meeting’s been cancelled.

 

[Profpointy]

"I'm bladdered", when someone is drunk is quite amusing. 🧐

I think the Scots equivalent "blootered" is even better.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I love 'oh my giddy aunt' and 'well I'll go to the foot of our stairs', which my Nan used to say.

Ha, mine said that as well

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Put wood in’t ’ole

 

[Profpointy]

The meeting’s been cancelled.

back in the day I used to try very hard to avoid meetings with "strategy" in title, and / or those organised by one particular colleague. She was intelligent and perfectly nice to be fair but it always seemed to end up in a ridiculous debate about "how does fixing such and such contribute to our strategy"

Such questions about why we are doing something do have their place,
particularly when you are asking for a million quid but it gets boring in the extreme when it is obvious that something simply needs dealing with, especially when it's not a lot of money, or the choice is simply A vs B and arguing the toss is likely costing more than simply getting on with it.

We were both in the "strategy team" and I was never proposing anything non-strategic but I had no patience with almost weekly "what do me mean by strategy" discussions

 

[Profpointy]

I think the Scots equivalent "blootered" is even better.

Now I think about it there are lot of Scottish terms which our are superior to our Southern equivalents

"gobshyte" is so much better than "bullshitter" don't you think?

And only in the last few years did I learn that the wonderful term "numpty" was originally Scottish.

Having heard the word "outwith" you find yourself struggling for an equivalent in English English and really need such a word thereafter. As an aside my Scottish neighbour was picked up on by his boss for using "outwith" in a technical document. "that's not a word. That's two words joined together and used wrongly". Needless to say he subsequently made an extra effort to use "outwith" in everything he wrote

 

[wafter]

"It is what it is"

 

[Ming the Merciless]

"It is what it is"

Brain rot does that

 

[Drago]

Pay rise.

Suspended on full pay.

No witnesses.

 

[slowmotion]

Ya daft bugger.

 

[Drago]

Hello big boy.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Hello big boy.

Do you say that a lot then?

 

[Accy cyclist]

He/she wants t'ha'penny and t'cake!! Translates to he/she wants the half penny and the cake! Meaning they want both items, not just the one. 🧐

 

[Tribansman]

Room meat
Brown nose
Pass muster