BRITISH SLANG | 5 Colloquial British English Words

hi everyone welcome back to english with

Lucy I've got a short little video for

you today it's been highly requested

it's all about british slang

so today I'm going to talk to you about

five slang words and phrases that we use

here in England the first slang word is

the tube and any of you that have

visited London will know this quite well

the tube for us is the underground but

we would never call it a metro or the

underground we normally call it the tune

and that's because it's in the shape of

a tube so if you visit London make sure

you ask for the nearest tube station now

people will understand you if you say

metro station or underground station but

if you want to sound like a native the

tube

ok the next word is local so if I say

I'm just popping down to my local what

would I be saying what do I mean well I

mean I'm popping down just quickly

visiting my local pub now a big part of

British culture is going to the pub so

it's very fitting that we have a slang

word for it

the local and this is s slang word that I use

quite a lot I'd say oh yes we just met

in my local and everyone knows i'm

referring to my local pub the next word

is thrash and this is a verb to thrash

now what would I be saying if I said I

absolutely thrashed him

well we would be saying I beat him not

in a physical sense it means in a game

it means I won over someone so say I was

playing cards with my dad and i won by a

long way i would say yeah I absolutely

thrashed him the next british slang word

is iffy

so if i say ooh no that sounds a bit

iffy

what would I be saying iffy refers to

something incorrect or not quite right

so if my mom says to me Lucy I've just

received an email and a really rich

Prince wants to give me 200 million

pounds i would say ooh mum that sounds

iffy

I don't think that's quite right and

the final word skint skint so if i said i

bought all this new camera equipment and now

i'm totally skint

what would I be saying it means i have

no money or i think americans would say

broke in this case but for us we would say

skint if someone invites me out but I

can't go because I've not enough money i

just say nah I'm skint

ok those were my five british slang

words and phrases i hope you enjoyed

them

comment below if you know any more I'm

always interested to hear the weird and

wonderful slang phrases that you hear on

your travels

some of them i don't even use myself so

it's very entertaining to read those and

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