It was brought to my attention that i never did give the answers to my little Britishisms quiz.
enjoy
jacket potato: a baked potato
cotton on: to catch on, to understand, to start doing something (cotton on to recycling!)
in nick: in prison
cling film: Saran wrap
pudding: desert of every kind. what we call pudding is custard. who knew?
oh sod off: go away/cut it out/knock it off
cheers: thanks/there you go/pardon me/nice talking to you/have a good day/bye
ta: a word to follow cheers--or on it's own to mean pretty much exactly the same thing as cheers
alright? what's up?/how are you doing? (to which the general reply is "yeah. you?")
some bonus words:
brill: cool
ace: really cool
burk--a foolish jerk. naive, gullible meanie.
buddy--a sandwich
done and done.
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