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Keep Your Hair On! – Calm Down! Such a Visual British Slang Term. You can Imagine Someone Actually Losing their Hair in a Fit of Rage. Nice!

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British Sayings – British Slang – British Words
  • Gobsmacked: Gobsmacked - At A Loss For Words. Just Absolutely Amazed
  • Chip Butty: Chip Butty - This unusual British Slang word is actually a food group unto itself in the UK. It is beyond fattening in its construction. Made from a bread roll, spread lovingly with lashings of butter and stuffed to the rafters with chips, it is guaranteed to clog up those arteries in a hurry. Dieters be for warned!
  • L.O.M.B.A.R.D.: L.O.M.B.A.R.D. - A Cockney Acronym for a  Bloke with Loads of Money But a Right D_ _ k Head! Not Much Upstairs...Get me?
  • Sweet Fanny Adams: Sweet Fanny Adams - Absolutely Nowt - Nothing! This is an Unusual British Saying that Has an Intriguing and Macabre Origin. In 1867 an Young Lady was Killed and Her Corpse Butchered by a Man Named Frederick Baker. A Couple of Years Later, British Seamen Were Given Tinned Mutton as Rations. They Decided that it Tasted so Bad it Must be the Remains of Fanny Adams. From that Point on, "Fanny Adams" became Slang for Mutton or Stew and Later on Anything Worthless.
  • Hanky-Panky: Hanky-Panky - To Have A Bit Of A Snog or "Making Out" in American English.  It's Original Meaning is That of Trickery or Shenanigans But it's More Commonly Used in the First Sense in Modern England.