Bob's your Uncle is different to a Piece of Cake, Piece of cake may be used to describe a task as easy, Whereas Bob's your Uncle would be used to indicate a task is complete when giving instructions. You do this then that and Bob's your Uncle.

Well here's my twopennarth,. Speaking English is one thing, but try learning any British dialect which is a whole other kettle of fish. It might take donkey's to get anywhere near. But, if you knuckle under, and don't let the cat get your tongue, it's doable. Anyone who says not is all mouth and no trousers. It's probably better to learn with a friend so you have someone to chew the fat about it with, but if you're under the weather, probably best to give it a miss until you're feeling tip top again otherwise it would be bloody hard - if you'll pardon my French. If you study regularly, it shouldn't go pear shaped and you might even find it a piece of cake if you're lucky. I've known folk try to learn my dialect and it's mostly been a bit of a damp squib, despite the expectation and fanfare. Do it in my neck of the woods and get it wrong, you're going to get some stick, or could even be sent to Coventry. To be fair I'd not touch trying to learn some accents with a barge pole, they're thick as thieves in some places and if you kick one, they all limp. Hope that doesn't throw a spanner in the works for your plans but if you follow my advice... Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt.

In the UK 'pissed' on its own is always 'drunk'. But we do use 'pissed off' to mean angry/mad. Chav- it doesn't really mean 'trouble maker'. It more generally refers to people deemed to be of lower class with tacky tastes in everything. 'Give me a tinkle on the blower'. Well- everyone in the uk would know what was meant- but I'm not sure anyone since the 1950's has actually used the phrase - unless they were deliberately trying to sound dated for effect. Your deductions were pretty good, by the way!

Full of beans.... is linked to jumping beans not baked beans, therefore lively and excitable. 🙌🏼

Personal favourites: "Gordon Bennett!", "Crikey!", "What a palaver!", and "Lawks a Lordy!"

Got to say & i'm sure many would agree.. Tyler has one of the greatest personalities of the American reaction channels going 👍🙂🇬🇧🇺🇸

You can also say CHUFFED TO BITS as in you're very happy or delighted about something

British Prime Minister Robert Cecil employed his nephew Arthur Balfour as the Minister of Ireland. Balfour used to refer to the Prime Minister as ‘Uncle Bob.’

We also say Gordon Bennett. As a meaning of surprise when something odd happened.

I (British) use both 'Murphys Law' and 'Sods Law'. I always use 'Murphys Law' when talking to older relatives because 'sod' was considered a more taboo word a few generations back. It's also used as an alternative to 'f#*k off' ('sod off') or 'f#*k it' ('sod it').

Wow! These are early days and the jury is out, but Tyler! It seems like new neural nets are forming in your brain! In this video you successfully recalled things you had learned in other British videos you reacted to, and made some accurate deductions. Keep up the good work! (No sarcasm intended.)

There are small pill/bean shaped toys called jumping beans that and feeding a horse beans to produce more energy is where the term full of bean's comes from. Taking the biscuit means someone is taking advantage in an unreasonable way.

In 1887, British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil appointed his nephew Arthur James Balfour as Minister for Ireland. The phrase 'Bob's your uncle' was coined when Arthur referred to the Prime Minister as 'Uncle Bob'. Apparently, it's very simple to become a minister when Bob's your uncle!

the 'penny dropped' for Tyler when he 'understood.'

RE the "bee's knees", we also have a cruder version of "that's the dog's bollocks". It means the same thing though.

Tyler: "Well I can't be more wrong" UK: Hold my beer

My old Dad was a dab hand at making sugar buttys, well high in calories! It was also a term used on the canals - now forgotten but not to a canal aficionado, a butty is the narrowboat towed behind the for'ard narrowboat (which carries the load), the butty being accommodation for the master and his family.

'The bee's knees' actually originated in America. It's part of an Ivy League university slang that was popular before WW1. 'The cat's whiskers' is another, but most are now forgotten. It dates from post-WW1 in Britain. Though 'The dog's bollocks' seems to be purely British, copying the original form.

I always thought chavs stood for council housed and violent 😂. It’s also often used to describe a thing or persons look as “chavy” even if they were not in social housing. Say you bought a nice car and added too RGB lights and zebra print steering wheel cover - it would look chavy. Or a person rocked up at a formal event in a tracksuit in large hoops and a Croydon facelift

There was a craze for 'jumping beans' in the 50's & 60's. Whether there was/is such a thing as a jumping bean I have no idea - but it was supposed to jump up & down when taken out of its box/matchbox. Thus if you're full of energy you're 'full of (Mexican jumping) beans'. The 'bee's knees!' is said to have come from New York in the 19thC, when there was a influx of Italian immigrants; who were keen to get into business in the USA. There was an existing phrase for something that was very good: "It's the business" . However when Italian-speaking people said it is sounded like "Beez-neez" ...the bee's knees.

Sod's Law can sound rude to some, so many people tend to use Murphy's Law instead. Butty was originally used more in the North while down south a sandwich was called a sarnie but now can be either.

"take the cake" or "take the biscuit" is really the same thing - from the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes; in its original sense to "take/win the prize". So it's be "the most extreme" manifestation of anything, either for better or worse.

Two nations devided by the same language! 😃

I wouldn't say taking the biscuit means annoying, it's more a situation or action that had gone to far or is inappropriate. So for example of you found someone laugh annoying you wouldn't say that laugh takes the biscuit. But if someone was being loud on a train for example then started playing music on their phone you could say that takes the biscuit.

I was told "Full of Beans" refers to Jumping beans which would describe it well, then there is also Ants in your Pants which is restlessness. Chav i was told comes from a Gypsy term Chavo/ Chavi for a Gypsy child, similar to the term Pikey which comes from people who hang around the turnpike (an old term for toll road) to rob people, in scotland they use the term Ned not educated delinquent . butty is also a canal barge (containing goods inside) which is towed behind another narrowboat unclear which came first. the Bees Knees is also the Dogs Bo**ocks which is the best thing for breeding pedigrees. Getting Pissed off is getting angry however. and having a chuftie is having a look. the full saying is "and bobs your uncle and fannys your aunt", though "my aunt Fanny" means thats nonsense. Fanny doesnt mean the same in the Uk as the US

Chuff is definitely used a lot as a noun to describe a part of the body as in - something can be 'as dry as a nun's chuff'

By the way Tyler, the word "rubbish" is _not_ slang; that's just the word that we use for it. There is no situation where the word rubbish would be considered too informal, inappropriate, or unacceptable to use. Oh, and one more tip: 'Watch Mojo' videos are almost always a complete pile of crap. They often make broad, inaccurate and misleading generalisations about topics that they never adequately explain, so you're not really going to learn much from them. In addition, they have a habit of illustrating their 'compilation lists' by showing minuscule 2-second clips that barely give you a moment to hear or see what they are trying to demonstrate (whether it's music, dialog, or anything else). Therefore the Watch Mojo channel is best avoided, if possible. There are much better alternatives.

🇨🇦Canadian here: I know/use most of these, probably from growing up watching tons of BBC content on Canadian TV in the 70-80s. We are a hybrid of both Britain and US, so we are familiar with both countries’ vocabulary of things, sayings and comedy.

Taking the last biscuit is a sacrilege

In some regions in the mainly in the north "Chuff" can also mean someone who is being difficult or annoying . As in "David forgot to lock the door again, the chuff."

The full phrase is "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt", the second part is dropped these days as Fanny used as a diminutive for Frances has died out. I don't know that many girls called Frances these days, not too popular now. FYI Fanny is British slang for a Vagina. Out of the millions of words and phrases, both acceptable and unacceptable today, in The Oxford English Dictionary, the complete edition of many volumns, less than one percent are still in common parlence, many having multiple meanings, new words and phrases added annually.

I grew up with most of these slang terms even though I live in Canada. My maternal grandfather was born in England and came to Canada when he was a teenager.

I've got a feeling that the tinkle bit from "A tinkle on the blower" possibly comes from the early days of the telephone when calls went through a manual exchange (the lady with the headphones and a board with loads of leads plugged into ). When she alerted the person that she had connected to she would wind a handle which would make the phone tinkle at the recipients end and it's an historical hangover from the past. I'm getting on in years but I'm not that old to know first hand so I could be wrong. The blower is obviously from the speaking tubes on ships.

Often when the expressions don’t seem to make a lot of sense, it’s because origins of the phrase have been lost or at least are a long time back. Sometimes it’s also because the expression is a clipped version of the original, like saying “if you could do ….”, where the full version would include something like “, that would be appreciated.” Sometimes you have slang, a good example is when you call someone a berk, berk being rhyming slang “Berkshire hunt”, as in the second word that instead begins with the letter c - something of a taboo word in the US.

bits and bobs, originated from carpenters' tool kits containing parts for a drill, with bits used for making holes while bobs are routing or screwdriving drill attachments.

When Bee’s flit from flower to flower the nectar can stick to their legs, something good.

“Chuffed as a chocolate frog” meaning very happy comes from the Freddy Chocolate bars which are in the shape of a smiling frog!

If Tyler is starting to make sense of things, then things are alarmingly simple! Break out the Bunting for him.

Bob’s your uncle refers to The Marquis of Salisbury who was Prime Minister in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His actual name was Robert Cecil ( a descendant of Elizabeth the First’s chief minister William Cecil). He had a nephew , Arthur Balfour, who took over as Prime Minister from him. Because this was seen as being a bit of a fix the phrase, “and Bob’s your Uncle” started to be used for times when a difficult task has a quick solution

In south Wales it is common to hear "Butty" used in the same context as "Buddy". We tend use "sarnie" more often for sandwich.

We say in the UK I’m pissed off for angry or your pissing me off means your really annoying me , or piss off means go away, it’s a pisser means not an ideal outcome ie I couldn’t go to that night out I had to work it’s a pisser. It’s pissing down, raining fast. There’s probably more I’ve forgotten 😂

Us tea drinkers on occasion have biscuits (digestives, hobnobs, rich tea, custard creams, bourbons, etc.) to dunk in our tea. If sharing, it is considered quite rude to take the last biscuit, and possibly even ruder to take it if offered to you. Chuffed isn't the only word we have for passing wind... out of the many synonyms there is one that may be making a resurgence: trumped.

Reminds of a funny situation. I had a friend from US living here in UK, one saturday we were on an all day session in the pub when he'd got a call from a relative back in US, he told them "can't talk I'm really pissed & going outside to smoke a fag" and hung up on them. Next day met him for brunch nursing a hangover when he told me that he'd had a bad night he'd had phone calls all through the night from his worried family in US thinking something really bad had happened. Because of the call the day before they thought he'd been really upset by a gay person and had gone after them to shoot them.

Butty is also a term to describe a mate (friend) here in Wales.

Fancy can also be used like E.g. that meal was really fancy. Meaning rather over the top.

I heard that the phrase 'bees knees' comes the word 'business' and it was people making fun of the Italian immigrant's accent in the early 1900s

12:24 I always imagined it was just someone slanting the pronunciation of "business", as in "it's the business, man" as in "its the best in the business" or "its the best". "It's the beese-neese, man" and ultimately someone who didn't know that just heard "bees knees"

You’re channel is the bees knees, get yourself an egg banjo to celebrate 🎊

'In a tick' derives from the ticking of a traditional mechanical clock

Yes we use pissed as both drunk OR angry in uk. Or Iv heard people say Sam got pissed at the pub & Amy was really pissed when Tom broke the vase.

Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt is one I like. It makes my granddaughters laugh. It just means all is good, all is well or simple.

I can’t believe that show missed “knock me up”!

I've read in a book called "how to talk like a local" By Suzie Dent that chav comes from a Romany gypsy word "chavo" which mean little boy.

Young Tyler, look up your American singer , Guy Mitchell. He recorded a song called : "Bob's Yer Uncle And Fanny's Yer Aunt", back in 1954 as a 78 record. I don't suppose that you have even heard of Guy Mitchell. I enjoy your channel.

Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt

Tinkle on the blower is easy when you remember that early phones used to have a bell. Ringing bells are said to tinkle. We use the word rubbish like USA uses trash, but in the UK trash means of low quality, as in "He isn't a very good player, he's trash", or "These cheap headphones don't work, they're trash". If we called something a trash-can we would mean it is very poor at doing what it is meant for. Full of beans is attributed to a practice of feeding beans to horses as fodder. Supposedly, horses that were fed beans were more energetic and lively. Bobs your uncle - common theory is that the Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism, which was apparently both surprising and unpopular. Whatever other qualifications Balfour might have had, "Bob's your uncle" was seen as the conclusive one

For bobs you uncle it’s like going- to cook the casserole just chop the meat and throw it in with a load of chopped veg, a jug of water and a beef or chicken stock pot. Then set the timer for 2 hours and bobs your uncle that’s dinner sorted.

Chav is used as meaning, council housing,antisocial , violent, became common in the 1980s to label any rebellious youngsters

Piss is very versatile. Getting pissed while getting pissed at someone taking a piss (at whatever or whoever) while taking a piss in the bog and pissing off when it's pissing cats and dogs.

takes the biscuit basically means 'takes the piss' with an added 'cuit' on the end to cause less offense

'Full of beans' . Breakfast gives energy for the day. Baked beans on toast is a long traditional breakfast food that gives energy, hence...

When we're mad we say its pissing me off, or I'm so pissed off

"Rubbish" isn't really a slang word, it means the same as your "garbage", as in "put the rubbish out" or "that packaging can't be recycled, throw it in the rubbish bin". It can be used to describe something really crap, "that film (movie) was rubbish!" Or when someone doesn't know what they're talking about "You're talking rubbish mate!"

Beans are like a national dish in UK!

We do say.. we're passed off .. when we're fed up or angry here in England x

"Tinkle on the Blower" you have to know that "Blower" is (now old fashioned, kinda 1940s) slang for a telephone. Then you have to think of the noise an old-fashioned phone might make when it rings (the tinkling of bells). And then you can see that if you are making the "blower" do that tinkling thing it is because you made a call to them.

The full saying is 'and Bob's your Uncle and Fanny's your Aunt'.

11:24 Surely the bees' knees means "The Bs and Es". The "Be all and End all" of something. Meaning the final point in some argument or procession. The plural of the letter B, and the plural of the letter E. The Bs and the Es. Made into words as "Bees and letter E".

I like this. Angle of the dangle equals the heat of the meat when the urge is constant

That takes the biscuit means you have had enough-enough is enough-you have run out of patience with something!

We do say he's pissed off if someone's angry or annoyed

Pissed off and Murphies law are also common in the UK

You did really well.

Chuffed to bunnies. Absolutely happy as Larry!

Pissed is also a swear word in the UK. If you tell someone to piss off in UK it's like a slightly milder version of f@%k off.

slang changes in any language from year to year even my parents have trouble with young people from hong kong taiwan or mainland china where they lived before coming to north america

Haha love your channel man, here from the UK

You will also frequently hear 'Bobs your uncle' followed by ' & Fanny's your aunt'...

Have you never heard of jumping beans? That's what "Full of Beans" alludes to as meaning full of life.

Butty is interesting to me, because when I began teaching Russian speakers English I discovered the Russian word for sandwich is бутерброды - buttebrodi :D

I wish you were on British TV Tyler. Your videos are great and funny.

CHAV, Council Housed And Violent. Council Housing is the UK version of the projects

In (most of) Scotland, "chavs" are called "neds". The most common explanation is that it's an acronymn for Non Educated Delinquents, but that seems to be an urban myth, because the term actually goes a long way back into the 19th century.

Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt - to give it, its full phrase 😃

Rather than something being annoying, if it "takes the biscuit", it means like "it's too far/ the last straw".

Full of beans was still a saying in the South when I was younger. And it was used both ways. Biscuits to Brits are cookies to Americans, so not so dissimilar. And usually 'that takes the cake' IS used in a derogatory way. At least it is where I'm from. No matter what area it's in, if something silly or stupid is outdone, it takes the cake. A sod (as used about people) is a total screw-up. Brits also say 'sodding', as in 'that sodding car is always breaking down'. Murphy's law is more about things going wrong outside a person's control, like the universe is perverse and determined to make sure that anything that can go wrong, will. Our equivalent of Chav is punk or thug or possibly trash.

Where I grew up in Nova Scotia Canada we say someone is "Piss Loaded Drunk"

Taking the cake meaning winning in the USA where people in America don’t use sarcasm and irony much in UK ? We’ll get an ordinary slang saying like taking the cake now add Brit sarcasm, well you ca possibly add a couple of swear words as in “well that bloody well takes the sodding biscuit” and there you have the difference, see? If you put this to translating slang plus adding how someone says the slang you get more nuance as well.

I've lived in the UK my whole life and I was today years old when I learned what "full of beans" actually meant. I thought it had something to do with flatulence! XD

Check out some cockney rhyming slang ... trouble and strife ..wife , dog and bone ... phone . There's many more .

Council house and Violent (Chav) Council houses are what the US would call social housing, generally assumed that lower class or hard up people live in them and that they have more social problems making them more likely towards a life of crime and violence due to deprivation of basic needs or just plain bad luck. Council houses are generally good quality, equal to the private sector of housing.

Bee's knees comes from a French person trying to say 'business' and is a way of saying, 'That's the business!' or 'That's the best option for a successful business.', which is truncated to 'That's the bee's knees!'.

Funny thing is I had an uncle named Bob, he was a little simple lol, so what a perfect saying for him.😂

I think "Takes the biscuit" and "Takes the cake" are basically the same phrase, but in Britain it became used ironically at first before the original meaning got lost to time and it just became a negative exclamation.

in Australia, we use both. When I get pissed, I get pissed = When I get drunk, I get mad.

"The bees knees" is a New York saying that came from the Italian migrant community, they would say "it's the Business" when something was the best. Try saying "It's the business" in an Italian American accent.

In Australia something going wrong would be "Buckleys " Buckly was a convict who escaped adn lived with the Aboriginals and it is recorded at every step something went wrong

Lots of different words for getting drunk: pelatic, slaughtered and sozzled are just three that come to mind.

My daughter went out in top to toe Adidas today...she came downstairs and said Check me out in full chav"x

I have a "piss up" on the weekend. We could say that too