Here I sit broken hearted Paid a penny and only farted

Some places still do 😢

I find its mostly those born before boomers that use the phrase as I think the price increased by the time boomers used them

Am shocked he's never heard it even once - guess Evan's hanging out mostly with people younger than 35 and maybe more middle-class? *shrug* I know it's less common but I I hear people say it frequently.

My bad - it could be a regional thing as well (I'm based in the Midlands).

Yep. Tom was the guy who peeped on Lady Godiva riding in the nude. In Coventry near the Godiva statue, there's an alcove in one of the buildings with a smaller statue of Peeping Tom. Just a fun fact there.

@@bareakon If you happen to be at the Godiva Statue near "the hour", you hear the bell chime and see a horse circling the base of the clock and a shutter will open and Peeping Tom will pop his head out and uncover his eyes to spy on Godiva

yes! on par or sub par!

It's very specific to roadman speak which predominantly came from young North Londoners. Very tied to the grime scene in my mind. So dench is the same, and words/phrases like 'low it, peng etc.

@@Relyx it is not "very specific" to roadmen. On par, subpar, par for the course, etc has been used for hundreds of years. Par means equal to(like PARity). The use of par to mean insult IS very specific to roadman tho

@@Rissen_ That's the usage I was referring to yes.

Never heard par either

I had to pause the video 😂😂

wonder if he knows what a minge is

@@sezcam79 Of course he does. It's an insect that bites you.😉

@@jdb47games uhhh. Midgies have other names?

@@sezcam79 Whoosh!

Seems accurate.

Yup, that's correct.

Pretty much sums us up!

Yep, sums us up pretty well

Welcome to Britain, folks.

I'd hate to be a life long Brit. Couldn't you have taken a break and become Croatian or something, fo a while?

The anorak was more waterproof than a duffel, hence the choice of trainspotters, but otherwise spot on.

@@pattheplanter I've always thought an anorak is that type of, often see-through, raincoat people buy at theme parks.

​@@pattheplanter Right, the waterproof feature would make sense, cheers.

@@tobynorris That would be a mac. An anorak is like a parka.

Chock a block comes from the use of block and tackle used in lifting heavy loads. When it meant that the rope got jammed in the block.

I always thought it referred to jumping beans which have a lot of energy

Seconding the jumping beans

My Pop pop would say that guys Full of Beans, meaning BS

Chockablock is a naval term when the block (and tackle ) is jammed.

Chock-a-block in Australia just means completely, utterly full, or jammed.

Ive seen this same list covered by an english teacher who also had never heard of dench. Pretty niche saying I think.

I have never heard anyone use dench unironically except from teenagers who think they're "gangster"

Yeah I have never heard of Dench, but I think its slang for kids nowadays.

Dench is a common thing in gaming meaning to throw away, trash or deconstruct

I've never heard of Dench, Par or Mortal ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I like that idea but I go for the Give me a tinkle on the blower comes from the old candlestick telephones. The tinkle is the ringing of the phone. The blower is the phone and the old telephones had horns to speak in so like the navy blowers.

A blower is also used on really old cars from the 30s like the Bentley 12-liter

I am British and I have heard my mum talk about someone having a lot of spunk and I am glad I have never embarrassed myself by using it at school... I think it picked up the sexual meaning of semen later..

@@harriet2114 I think the American meaning is used more in the UK nowadays, in comparison to when I first moved here in the early 80's. When I first moved here, Britain had only 4 channels on TV to choose from and they weren't on 24/7. Exposure to these things was limited. Since the advent of Sky TV in the UK, more people understand the meaning of the US version. That said, I don't think Americans generally use or understand the UK version. That's probably due to the fact American media use their version more than the British media use theirs.

@@bullzdawguk that's hilarious - I have always wanted to hear that someone said that, and what the reaction was! How did the rest of the evening go after that? 😜 Personally, I don't think the term would be used by a Brit, but it is less likely to be misunderstood in the same way (unfortunately😆) due to exposure to the US term.

Spunk actually means courage .. it slang term comes from the US meaning balls.. so a lot of courage, a lot of balls a lot of spunk

​@@julesdingle and what is in balls. spunk.

Yeah, it's not really a special phrase, it's just a shortening of "half past". In English the traditional way of telling the time is very strictly that you say "X past Y" up to and including thirty minutes past the hour, and then "X to Y" from thirty minutes past until the next hour. I think my recollection is that German at least tends to be a bit more liberal in allowing use of "vor" and "nach" at all places around the clockface, and having some different options for describing the same time? So in English every time phrase comes as part of a pair distinguished only by "past" and "to" e.g. "quarter to five" and "quarter past five". The only one that has no pair is "half past". So we can be lazy and drop the "past" only with "half", but if we dropped it with any other time, it would be ambiguous which one of the pair we had shortened! Interestingly, you can see this is just lazy practicality by looking at "half past" just on its own without the hour. We also in English sometimes don't say the hour if we assume everyone knows roughly what time it is. So we might say "it's ten past" instead of "it's ten past five". But while we might say "it's half five" instead of "it's half past five" in the full form, if we say it without the hour, we'd still say "it's half past" and never "it's half". Because then it would be ambiguous that you were talking about the time, without the "past" or "to" in the phrase. So basically, it's just a case of being as lazy as it's possible wherever we can be lazy without losing some information in the phrase. And "half past five" -> "half five" is the only one where being lazy doesn't lose some information, so that's the only one we do it with. I'm sure we'd do it with the others too if we could! 😄

As a Dane dating a brit it has caused a bit of trouble

@@katjasarup2859 As bad as a Brit and American agreeing to meet on the first floor?

To make matters worse, "half seven" actually used to mean 6:30 in the UK, as well. Eventually, "half past" became more common and people started confusing them, which then led to "half seven" meaning 7:30 instead. I believe it was in the 17th century when this change occurred. So... quite a while ago.

@@wessexdruid7598 Like usually we have G,1,2,3 etc but U.S would be 1,2,3,4 instead.

I dont know about you, but i've always used "full of beans" as a polite way of saying someone is....flatulent

Something substandard is often described as "below par". I had also never heard the dench one.

I didn't get par as a verb. Never heard it used that way before. Also the only time I have heard Dench was from a 13 year old so I think it is not really a traditional idiom, more of a hip slang word with the young crowd

​@@Phiyedough it means insult/diss

Dench and par both showed up when I was doing my GCSEs in 2012/13/14, but I haven't heard anyone use them since.

Par was one of those I'd never heard, along with dench. Two others I don't recall. Par in Australia only means average, or expected.

We shorten it in the UK too, at least in NE England ‘chocka’ is a word we use alll the time!

I beleive 'blower' is derived from rhyming slang 'trombone' meaning phone and tinkle comes from the sound it makes.

Dench was kid/teen slang for a while but never really took off as common parlance. I mostly hear chocka (rather than the full chockablock) these days too. - in East London, . It's a shame the list makers didn't include info on the applicable regions/demographics, because some of these if never come across (the use of Par and mortal that were given) and others are archaic (blower, car bonnet) I wonder if those are still used in other regions

@andy Cockney rhyming slang for phone, is "dog and bone."(dog) "Blower" or more specifically " give me a tinkle on the blower " was a mechanical precursor to the telephone, "the tube" and each end of the tube was stoppered, if you wanted to speak to someone downstairs for example, you would take out the stopper your end, then you would "blow " down the tube which would then make a whistle "tinkle " the other end so they would answer. But with a lot of slang, things get shortened like in cockney rhyming slang, so some may just say "give me a tinkle " or "get on the blower "

Yes, likely a generational thing... Ask three different generations to define 'out of pocket' and you're likely to hear three different definitions! 😲

Mortal is used a lot in Scotland. I'd never heard of par though and had to look it up. Even then it's only on Urban dictionary. Apparently it's gansta and was made up by a rapper , much like 'dench'. Unless you're a teenager living on a dodgy south London council estate I doubt you'll ever hear anyone say either.

Used alot in the north east of England at least

@@speleokeir I feel attacked xd par was said all the time when I was at school, usually saying someone got "parred" or "thats proper par." Never heard Mortal before in my life though. Was in South East of London tho so you definitely on to something there.

My knowledge of the term mortal mainly comes from being obsessed with Geordie Shore as a teen I’ve heard it used a few times in person but it’s not too common outside that Sid did the country

I'm Canadian and knew a lot of these too. I think some of these just really weren't British exclusive.

Almost nobody has heard of dench. All the others I knew.

the strange British to Aussie to British word is shrapnel ..which returned in the UK for loose change with Neighbours

Another Aussie here. I knew most of these from my childhood but had never heard of dench.

Dench and Par are both 'Gansta'. Both made up by rappers. You might hear a teenager from a dodgy London council estate use them, but nobody else. I had heard of Dench though I've never heard anyone use it, I had to look up 'par' and it was only on Urban dictionary, not on any proper ones.

This is what happened

Never heard 'par' ... must be a southern thing!

For us at school, Dench was a bit derogatory. If someone thought a lot of themselves, particularly if they thought of themselves as hard, or a bit of a bully, we used to say he thought of himself as Dench

I heard Dench before but only in the same context as "sweeeet". But only people who are into grime music. I heard 'banging' more than Dench tbf.

I've only recently heard "dench" - never heard "par" in the context described here (only as "standard" or "average") - but then I'm not "down with the kids" LOL. I agree that "Dench" might also be regional, as my step-son was 17 in 2010, so if it was universal at that time for teenagers, I think I'd have heard (and hated) him saying it then! I've heard him using "sick" (for good!).

We used it in our school to describe people who thought they were hard, but weren't, so in a mostly ironic way

he mentioned Wiff waff when the Olympics went from China to London- the return of ping pong

Yep, Boris has built a career on waffling, talking bollocks, bullshitting and generally talking out of his arse.

When it means trying to fit something in somewhere it’s spelt and pronounced “wrangle”. When you achieve something in an unlikely way that’s “wangle”

I’ve always used it for achieving something I shouldn’t really have “wangled a lift off my mate” or “wangled a discount”

@@katysexton2668 I would say the two words are different - to wrangle is more to get control of something large or unwieldy, like you would wrangle a horse or a big bundle of balloons but you would wangle a screwdriver into that tight corner to stop the radiator leaking

I use "wangle" to be synonymous with "blag" as in "I wangled the day off"

​@@katysexton2668😅 I use wrangle for both, thanks for explaining

Yep I think you are right about voice tubes. I would say Gi'ss rather than Give me, since it would be short for Give us, which would be the cockney way.

A lot of the them aren’t…

Or a peeping Tom lol

Ye, butchers is London, but gander is more widespread, but thanks (not) to Easties, we all know butchers now....

Interesting fact, the origin of was from Meccano, a kids' construction toy. When first released, you could get the Box - Standard (the basic set) and the Box - Deluxe (the luxury set). These got corrupted into 'bog standard' for no frills and 'dog's bollocks' for 'the best'!

Or a geordie lol

I love Tickety boo!

Thats tickety boo.

It's easy to include it. Everytime someone asks you how you are, you respond that you're tickety-boo. It can be used to say that everything is alright 😊

@@chinablueliberty2822 exactly, you can just say, “I’m Tickety boo” or “everything is Tickety boo.” if it is ticketyboo, of course. 🥰 ha ha ha ha

Mine is bloody wanker

I have heard sub par bit never par on its own as a fellow Brit.

🤣

I have used 'Par' thousands of times. A very common saying 'par for course', or to compare something with another item is to say 'it's on par with......

@@Bertie22222 As a brit, I've heard both par in the sense of parabolic alumiunium reflector and par in the sense of par for the course, but I don't think I've ever heard the meaning of par given in this video.

"Mint" doesn't have to mean new. It's more like "that's awesome/cool" or equivalent to "that's sick" or "that's dope"

Yep Mint is known as cool etc here in Manchester.

@@elaineirving77 also where I got it from!

Quids in can mean making a decent profit or just an action that turned out well.

Yeah, that's the origin I know. Infact 'trainspotter' was also a synonym for 'anorak'! I was a teenager in the 90s, and both were commonly used then. Don't know if they are now!

People often counter it with "... and Fanny's your aunt".

​@@keithbarlow8415 Better that than "And your aunt's Fanny".

Par is one of the mostly used words on that list, another word for equal or standard.

I'm from the Midlands too. Yes - we say the traffic is choc - a - block, meaning traffic jams but I've used it to mean full to the top.

I know this one, and I am in the Netherlands. Definitely fairly common!

In London/southeast it means full. So yes the road can be Choc-a. as can the Pub, Club, shop... I don't think this is regional, though I never heard it in Scotland

Evan lives in London so probably uses the Tube to get around rather than driving. So it's not that surprising if you rarely experience the roads.

I don’t know how you haven’t heard chocka. We have to keep all these alive. I only didn’t know par. I’m 69.

It's changed its meaning a bit then. It used to mean someone who would study hard and got good marks when I was at school. It never applied to a 'snitch' (that was the word used for a grass). Teacher's pet was just called teacher's pet. And what human being has ever 'asked' for homework? I've never, ever heard of a kid doing something like that.

​@@debbiehenri345 i must say that the usage of slang is usually much vaguer than other words, and that the uk can be very regional when it comes to colloquial words. where i am from, we call buns 'teacakes'

@@debbiehenri345 Same

I don’t think “grass” was in this list! It should have been.

For us swot was just the smart kids. Literally anyone who was in top set that was not a 'cool' kid was a swot.

Yeah most of these sounded a bit dated

Definitely regional. I hear/use almost all of these regularly other than dench, which although I've never actually heard someone say I still know the meaning from music.

Where do you live? As definitely hear tons of these often

I was wondering why I knew so many of them but you answered my question. Those books are the best

Be interesting to see if dench lasts the test of time. Never heard par used like that either

I used to work with a lot of teenagers, Dench isn't a rapper. They started off saying hench for strong/ripped etc, which evolved into Dench (from Judy Dench)

I only know it because Graham Norton explained it to Judy Dench and then Mila Kunis then used it.

Skiving is a general leather working term, normally used when thinning sections when joining them so they're not too bulky, or that they match the same thickness as the rest of the leather.

It's also used in the Coated abrasives industry, preparing the ends of the lengths of the material prior to being joined together to make abrasive belts.

That's pretty interesting, we're certainly more similar than to Americans I think

@@mbncd Really?

Well that’s not surprising is it given your/our history. I love listening to Australian stories on Audible because it reminds me of words we used to use decades ago and I forgot them. I like that you don’t say mom too.

@@phoenix-xu9xj Once upon a time the European heritage was strong with us. Nowadays, I wonder if not so much. I'm pretty house bound but on the few occasions I do go out, I see a LOT of Asian stores (not just food but clothing, furniture, etc) and I hear a lot of people speaking a lot of different languages. We are (or at least seem) more of a melting pot than ever before. I wonder if these days, kids say things from those other places as easily as we said things from England and think they're Australian in origin too. Just to clarify, I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just a potentially interesting change since 30 years ago.

Most of these terms are also used in Canada

Especially when he tries to imitate a British accent, either accidentally or deliberately...

I know them all. I'm 37 and live in the south east.

@@cjlister8508 I didn't know 16 of them. I'm 23 and live in the East Midlands

@@Baconkiin yeah it probably varied alot based on age and location. There's a lot of very regional slang in the UK. I'm sure if he did a video based on more northern sayings I'd probably not know loads either.

@@cjlister8508 I've lived & worked in London, Kent and Herts (nearer London than out in the country), and I recognised many from their usage in that area. But only about ½-⅔ were ones I've actually used at some point or another. I'm Welsh, but I've lived in Suffolk for 30 years, so my relatively short time in the SE didn't really stick lol. Even Hubby (from just outside the M25 in Herts - hence more N London than posh) wouldn't know some of them.

I know and have used almost all of them - am from South (or "Sarf") London - how about you? 🙂

Guessing from your comment you’re British…

At least half of these came out in the 1980s and I'm pretty sure originated in tv shows and I'd never come across some. I'm pretty sure the more obscure ones stayed in London,probably Sarf London.

@@janebaker966 well a lot of them were based on rhyming slang so that is fair. Dench seemed to be a youth thing and that language never hangs around for long, once the parents know what it means it's no longer cool. Excuse me but it's time to go up the apples and pairs to the land of nod.

It would be nice for some midlands ones Like we say snapping for having a small snack

There's a pub in my town where they kept the original lock mechanism where you have to put the old penny in to open it. They kept a big jar of them behind the bar. They said it stops people from using their loos without buying anything.

Anorak definitely died out in the 90s lol

I use it all the time, I still hear it often. But maybe it's the circles I live in. Someone else mentioned trainspotters and that's kind of the point, an anorak is someone who knows so much about that thing they're so good at and is so obsessed with it that you would probably see them outside in all weather's in the worst possible places so that they can indulge their hobby. So you'd likely see them out in groups in their anoraks when same people would be at home staying warm and dry

​@@forbezr3581it didnt

Probably because you are not old enough. This is slang that I heard as a child but is not used very often these days. Nowerdays most people would probably use 'nerd' instead. While the meanings of these two words are similar, 'anorak' can have a different meaning referring to a 'dirty anorak' which is a kind of pervert.

@@jameslewis2635 an 'anorak' would be more single minded and obsessive than a nerd

Must be an age thing then - I knew them all and I'm pretty old!!

Could be where you live. I know 99% of them.

its your age... i knew nearly all of these, i'm millennial

I always thought of it as another way of saying 'dazzling'.

Folk etymology at it's finest I'm afraid - which due to the internet has now become 'fact'..., personally I'm more inclined to believe Urban Dictionary's definition of "dog's bollocks"...

In English it follows thus: a quarter Past the hour, half past the hour, A quarter to the hour, minutes are the same, past the hour until half past, then to the hour, however one may use only minutes to count the passing of time from 1 hour to the next starting with a quarter past, e.g. 1 minute past 2 until 14 minutes past 2 then every minute 2-15, 2-30,2-45 until 2.59 then 3 O'clock.

No one uses the ‘on the blower’ bit anyway, that was slang for a type of handset that has not been used for around a century…

A blinder refers to being blinded by a burst, a flash of brilliance in expertise of thought or action, amazing others with your skill, to be dazzled and surprised with your skill.

Init has come to mean something rather different from the orginal contraction of 'isn't it', these days, those who use it put it at the end of every sentence as a way of encouraging agreement as in 'I'm going down the pub init'.

A British friend of mine who lived in the US, described someone intellectually challenged as having a low marble count. I have no idea where this phrase came from ?? USA or UK.

@@maryandrews4097 probably relates to the phrase ‘lost his/her marbles’ meaning pretty much losing touch with reality, in U.K. parlance. This is a contraction or ironic use of a very common phrase, the mutability of such phrases is almost always a good natured take on someone who has ‘lost it’…… Probably another marble!