UK sayings vs USA sayings

Watch the movie 51st State.... loads in there!

Dog and bone <--phone
Dogs bollocks <--its great
Bollocks <--its not so great

lol

I'm just gonna be annoying and throw in an Irish one here

'Acting the maggot' - when someone is misbehaving. ''Stop acting the maggot!'

I'm English and when I moved to Ireland this tickled me as I never though of maggots as particularly naughty :laugh:

US - South "burns my biscuits!" = makes me really mad/annoyed

It always makes me s****** when I hear Americans on TV saying that they are going out in their new pants. I just have an image of them swanning around in their underwear (we use pants as well as knickers to mean 'panties')

This will burn you guys, but in the UK we really can't tell the difference between an American and a Canadian accent....

I guess it probably depends on where someone is from. There is variation of the accents within Canada and within the states that is much more noticeable than just Canada vs. U.S. Obviously people from the predominantly French speaking areas usually have a strong French accent because English is their second language. Some other parts of Canada have a stronger accent (that is even more noticeable than being from the U.K.). I live in Canada. And in the U.S. There are some areas that have strong accents: The South, Boston, New York, Minnesota are just some examples. I don't have a Boston accent anymore (that's where I grew up), but when I did everywhere I went people knew I was from Boston the moment I spoke. Boston also has some unusual words. For example we call a drinking fountain a Bubbler (although pronounce it Bubbla).

I am from Boston too! I don't have the accent though, never did.

Did your parent(s) have the accent. That would influence it. I did have the accent, but I lost it when I was 18, pretty quickly, and have not had the accent since. From that point on everyone always thought I was from Canada (even though I had not lived there yet).

No, they weren't Bostonians plus I grew up in Roxbury/Southend. I'm moving back after few years oversea, mostly in Ireland.

Crikey - Another exclamation of surprise. Some people say "Crikey Moses"

Donkey's years - Someone said to me the other day that they hadn't seen me for donkey's years. It means they hadn't seen me for ages

Give us a bell - This simply means call me. You often hear people use the word "us" to mean "me


Gobsmacked - Amazed. Your gob is your mouth and if you smack your gob, it would be out of amazement.

Gutted - If someone is really upset by something they might say that they were gutted. Like when you are told that you have just failed your driving test!

Luvvly-jubbly - Clearly another way of saying lovely. Made famous by the TV show Only Fools and Horses.

On the piss - If you are out on the piss, it means you are out to get drunk, or to get pissed.

Put a sock in it - This is one way of telling someone to shut up. Clearly the sock needs to be put in their loud mouth!

Tickety-boo - If something is going well with no problems we would say it is tickety-boo.


Throw a spanner in the works - This is an expression that means to wreck something

Haven't read the whole thing, so pardon any repeats. I grew up down south with a mom from Texas, who grew up in an Italian family. So here's what I heard growing up.

"I can hear a rat piss on cotton a mile down the road." --don't bother being sneaky, 'cause I'm onto ya!
"Just sit on your hands." --stop talking, or refrain from saying anything (because Italians can't talk without moving their hands, apparently.)
"If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
"Sweatin' like a *kitten* in church."
"You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn."
"Rode hard and hung up dry." --meaning exhausted
"That makes as much sense as tits on a bull."
"He's dumber than a turkey in a rainstorm." --people say turkeys always look up when it's raining and end up drowning...lol
"We don't have a pot to piss in." --poor.
"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...it's probably a duck."
"He didn't know whether to **** or go blind." --usually stopped there, and was assumed the other person knew the rest, which goes "so he winked his right eye and farted."
"You can want in one hand and **** in the other...see which one fills up first."
"I gotta piss like a racehorse."
"Happier than a fat tick on a lazy dog."

And finally, since I've written a book of all the gems I have heard, the creme de la creme:

"I'm busier than a one-armed monkey with two peckers."

oh n last but not least......from me in the uk ....."Meat and Two Veg – Genitalia"

Being from the South the number one saying is " Bless his heart" - person is beyond help basically stupid.
then there's my Daddy's favorite - "That boy is crazier than a run over dog"
"Haven't see you in a coons age" - long time since they've seen you
We don't have taking the piss out of you we have "Slap the piss out of ya" which means basically that.

Bollucks is my fav UK saying.:happy:

I wanna see what Canadian people say....

"f*ckig the dog" -- slacking off

See this one is use in QC "F ucker l'chien" but means also "it didnt went well"