American Phrases - Page 4

barefoot serpent · 11-13-2006, 01:12 PM

pissed ----> shit faced
piss off -----> go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut

kick the bucket?

DanaC · 11-13-2006, 04:30 PM

Quote:

ashtray on a motorbike over there, innit?

As a friend of mine used to say "Ashtray's a girl's name".

Aliantha · 11-13-2006, 04:33 PM

We say tits on a bull here

morethanpretty · 11-13-2006, 04:53 PM

Up the creek without a paddle
or in some versions (my mom's)
Up poopoo creek without a paddle

Cut the cheese (don't know how american it is)

Don't have a cow.

DanaC · 11-13-2006, 05:00 PM

Up the creek without a paddle, is used here but I suspect is borrowed from America.

11-13-2006, 05:02 PM

Daaayyyuum!

YeeeHaww!

Git Some!

Throw Down!

Ain't.

Kick-ass!

DanaC · 11-13-2006, 05:04 PM

heh, the only one of those we use if ain't. I suspect that's quite old.

11-13-2006, 05:07 PM

You don't use kick-ass?

DanaC · 11-13-2006, 05:08 PM

mmm...actually, I think we do come to think about it. But we use it in an American way, if that makes sense. We use it with an awareness that we are using American slang.

11-13-2006, 05:10 PM

Makes perfect sense... I use some UK phrases like that.
Bully for you.

DanaC · 11-13-2006, 05:21 PM

Do you guys use 'good egg' and 'bad egg'?

11-13-2006, 05:22 PM

I don't but many do.

DanaC · 11-13-2006, 05:25 PM

I thought they'd more or less died out over here but then in the mid-nineties i discovered that they were used quite a lot by drug-dealing types in the north ( you don't need to know how I know that :P) There's something quite sinister about a slightly psychopathic speed dealer saying someone's a 'bad egg'. Always got the impression someone was about to get their head staved in.

11-13-2006, 05:26 PM

I hear it more from older people.

footfootfoot · 11-13-2006, 08:15 PM

dumber than a bag of hammers or box of rocks.
tighter than a nun's nasty or no no
tighter than a frog's asshole (that's water tight) or (yuck) a two year old.

11-13-2006, 01:12 PM	#1
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	pissed ----> shit faced piss off -----> go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut kick the bucket? __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

11-13-2006, 04:33 PM	#3
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	We say tits on a bull here __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

11-13-2006, 04:53 PM	#4
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	Up the creek without a paddle or in some versions (my mom's) Up poopoo creek without a paddle Cut the cheese (don't know how american it is) Don't have a cow. __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

11-13-2006, 08:15 PM	#15
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	dumber than a bag of hammers or box of rocks. tighter than a nun's nasty or no no tighter than a frog's asshole (that's water tight) or (yuck) a two year old. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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11-13-2006, 05:00 PM	#5
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Up the creek without a paddle, is used here but I suspect is borrowed from America.

11-13-2006, 05:02 PM	#6
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Daaayyyuum! YeeeHaww! Git Some! Throw Down! Ain't. Kick-ass!

11-13-2006, 05:04 PM	#7
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	heh, the only one of those we use if ain't. I suspect that's quite old.

11-13-2006, 05:07 PM	#8
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	You don't use kick-ass?

11-13-2006, 05:08 PM	#9
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	mmm...actually, I think we do come to think about it. But we use it in an American way, if that makes sense. We use it with an awareness that we are using American slang.

11-13-2006, 05:10 PM	#10
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Makes perfect sense... I use some UK phrases like that. Bully for you.

11-13-2006, 05:21 PM	#11
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Do you guys use 'good egg' and 'bad egg'?

11-13-2006, 05:22 PM	#12
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	I don't but many do.

11-13-2006, 05:25 PM	#13
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I thought they'd more or less died out over here but then in the mid-nineties i discovered that they were used quite a lot by drug-dealing types in the north ( you don't need to know how I know that :P) There's something quite sinister about a slightly psychopathic speed dealer saying someone's a 'bad egg'. Always got the impression someone was about to get their head staved in.

11-13-2006, 05:26 PM	#14
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	I hear it more from older people.

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