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- On this episode of "Slang School," Idris Elba teaches you British slang words, from ting and fit to apples and Alan. Idris Elba stars in TURN UP CHARLIE which will premiere onNetflix globally March 15: www.netflix.com/turnupcharlie
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Idris Elba: I have been set up, I know nothing!
Also Idris Elba: here's a complete history of Cockney Rhyming
Or he just red of an autocue. He's an actor, he can make it believable
@@blazn0 nah he was just covering himself in case he didn't know any. He has rapped in the past so he knows slang. Beyond that, there was no way he wouldn't know slang. I bet Naomi Campbell is fluent in the slang too. Maybe not the all rhyming ones
He wouldn't have said "eleven oh es" if he knew anything.......he would have said "one tens".....I think the information was being fed to him and the people who were giving him the information didn't know themselves how 110s is actually pronounced lol
Aeneas Booker he defo knew the cockney stuff but not the new crap like 110S. He did say at the end he learnt some tings, ie making it clear they told him some of the answers
The Royle yeah you're right actually.....I missed the fact that he said he learnt some things
“I know nothing about British slang but I’m here to teach you British slang” literally me giving my friends any relationship advice😂😂
Why do you teach your friends British slang if they need relationship advice
Seb Maxam why do people do drugs
Same
Same
@K B went here to see this one)
What Americans think british guys are like: Oh my sweet darling, my heart yearns for your touch.
What they’re really like: Aigh luv fancy letin me av a go at that gash innit
We don't say init every time you know
😂🤣😂🤣😂
What
Zach Jason Frew innit?
I read these in a British accent 😂😂
•Peng ting: Pretty girl
•Alie: Agree
• Bare P’s: Lot of money
• Shook: Nervous
•Don’t air me: Don’t ignore me
YurBoyRakZzz
The two words are closely linked
r l 😂😂😂 ik
Allow it - let it be
Shook is scared
Don’t @ me
Can we get him to replace Siri? His voice is extremely soothing. 🤗
More than morgan Freeman I think not 🤔
😂
I call him the Sky guy as he is on sky shows and sky TV advertising
Amen
angel smith 700th like init
BIG MAN TING init
Russians React please stop
that's it sis I’m dead 😂😂😂
You’re so moist (another uk slang word😏)
Shut up
Russians React yea yea big up my brodda.
How Americans think: you want a cup of tea
How English people are really like: I’ll shank ya innit
Thats Hilarious.
Not all english tho. You have the bougie whites who talk like the Queen lets be real
Sounds wet. No one says 'ya'
Never called it tea in my life
@@dagotowka9191 wagwan wys brudda
The way he holds that iPad triggers my anxiety.
Remember there's more things to worry about than an iPad
Good. Get over it.
WTH. 😭😭😭😭
@@AxeDharme Hush.
he's IDRIS ELBA.
None of these are new to me, I listen to 21 Savage regularly.
Rare S550 he uses British slang in his music?🧐
Lol
duke savage of the 21 district
😀😂🤣
@Aye it’s ya girl No Name nah it just wasnt funny
Idris: "Even Americans know this one"
Me, an American: 😬😬😬 .....
Even being British myself I've never heard of this lmao
@@VoltSnake I was hoping there would be a translation here :(
I think nickers are underwear. So Alan is the same thing. They're both slang for underwear...I think
Stefani Crockett 😘
Shiggity Diggity knickers. What women wear, sometimes
🙂 A lot of the slang is of West Indian/Caribbean origin...I'd say, Jamaican.
No that's just a caribbean ting
Not Jamaican carribean full stop . Black british community input
I agree. Lots of Jamaican influence. BIG UP! REH TEH TEH...yup Jamaican made.
Lol then again we were once affiliated with the British colony so I mean...
Thanks for saying it!!
Why isn't this guy James Bond already? He's just oozing that 007 swagger.
Yes
@Journey To Valhalla U'd rather have a lame actor play the role than someone that would kill it just cos he's not the "correct" color?
@@AbdulB I feel you as a man of color, however, Bond's original essence is one of White, Anglo Saxon, arrogant, and racist in nature. Elba is actually above all of that and IMO it would do him a great injustice to play the character. Let them keep their phony narrative of the 'Ultimate White Man' for their own and Let Idris Elba not succumb to playing the role of such a narrow minded and shallow character who is the white man's wet dream.
Watch Trevor Noah's comedy act. He explains the reason why. It is funny.
@@RJAce-ql3ey = MVP
He said even the Americans know what apples and pears are...and Im sitting here like...do I, do I really????
lol it means stairs
Same. I would've never guessed stairs
@Joe S Dang!!!
Don’t worry I’m English and I didn’t know, I only twigged when he said it. Cockney Rhyming slang isn’t the only slang we have, I think I knew two of the cockney sang, I knew all the others though 😂
Lol I had no idea what it meant either! I was trying really hard to figure it out before he explained and i was waaaaay off haha
*him saying you'll probably know what apples and pears means*
"Ah, context clue, probably their version of comparing apples to oranges I get that."
*it means stairs*
"what"
Omg that's what I was thinking too! I was like oh definitely apples and oranges then he say stairs....Made me feel dumb bc he said I should already know it hahaha
😂 ok so remember that English cockney is all about rhyming. So stairs are apples and pears rhyming with stairs so we shorten it to apples
I'm British and I don't even know 😂💀
😂😂😂
I think he was being sarcastic when he said that
Idris used to DJ in a club underneath my apartment.
Those were the happiest days of my life 😭😭😭
Good to sleep right
you probably didn't predict how severely overrated he would become
Joseph Leonard I hear some jealousy in your comment. Be proud of your own accomplishments and those of others. We’re all in this together. Bless you.🌺🌸❤️
@@josephleonard6695 lmfao who are you Joseph?
Hi Carmen
I’m in the ghetto, “Reh teh teh tehhh”
Slick Rick
I actually laughed out loud, I respect it bro
God damit
😂
I kinda find that offensive because I'm bloody British like I speak geordy
I love these. Most of them are Jamaican slangs 😂🇯🇲
Big up!
Terecia Anderson true, if you listen the ones speaking these slangs, they have a Jamaican accent mixed with the British
I saw that.
Yeeess!! Same thing I thought - OMG it's been so long since I heard "Reh Teh Teh" in the wild lol
@@WiseAilbhean You sound pressed 😂
PumpkinEskobarr nobody cares , only jamaica matters
Big-Up is really Jamaican/dancehall slang, got really popular in the 90's.
It’s actually because of the amount of Jamaicans that moved here, not the music
Gravyman if you’ve every listened to uk grime/drill they would usually say “big up (insert name ; usually the do or creator of the track)”
Fi real
Almost all of these are Jamaican patois.
There's no denying the impact of Jamaican culture on British slang. Shout out to the Windrush Generation :)
Can I ask a question since no one really answers me seriously :/ what part/region of London/UK uses the term "alie"
@@enrique9059 most parts of london use it
Idris: “Even Americans know this one.”
Me (a Brit): “what I don’t know this one...”
Mundane Box 15 ‘a British’
A Brit *
* A Briton
You don't know "apples and pears"? It's the single most well-known, stereotypical example of cockney rhyming slang. Use yer loaf, mate!
Mundane Box 15 literally me with the cockney slang haha. The perks of being a northerner 😅. Obvs know apples and pears though 🤙🏼.
It's like he gets younger as he ages
A real life Benjamin Button
the honest troll me2
No his facial hair is almost off that's why. A man doesnt look masculine without facial hair.
Money
Being rich and famous tends to have that effect.
2:37 - *Bait* means obvious in the UK.
ragii or popular/well known
Yeh like if you get your grinder out in front of police officers... that’s bait
Where Im form (north east) bait means food.
Kemii that’s mad. Never heard it used in that way. So like, what, “you wanna grab some bait”??
Bait had always meant risky/on top in Birmingham
"Ray-tay-tay!!!" Jamaican slang 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
It's also Southern American and French slang as well.
Meaning???😋
Lucien reid czcams.com/video/VaLBh9P0XpE/video.html
Yes I noticed! Also Ting and Big Up😄
"Ting" too lol
"I was named sexiest man of the year" Yeah, no wonder why...
Bait sort of means “obvious”. If someone is being very obvious, you would say “don’t be bait”
Yeah, it means blatant
Yeah he used it completely out of context.
the description for which he stated was Jamaican so not really wrong.
Shantoi B it is since the British version is quite different. One means embarrassed the other means obvious
You can also you 'Mac' for blatant/obvious/dodgey 👍🏼
Most of those slangs are rooted in British/Jamaican culture.
The Jamaicans were colonized by them, which could be why
It was half and half tbh
@@nishisalott1839 It's also because they subsidised Jamaicans coming over post war. They brought over words they developed as slaves
@@animelytical8354 I agree
British culture Uno 😂😂
And now this guy is Knuckles in Sonic the Movie 2. Imagine him using these words.
I don't know why but there's something majestic about him...
The Jamaican influence in their slang is astounding
Craig Campbell or maybe it’s their (British) influence on jaimaican slang. Jaimaica was a British colony after all.
@@MxCP11 Jamaica being a British colony doesn’t mean nth. That has nth to do with dis
Why am I watching this I'm British?
Jess Ica Because Idris Elba is lovely to look at
because he's fit af.
vondonstrut218 he’s buff man
Cos he’s a buff ting
Same 😂
Cockney rhyming slang is probably the most
innovative and convoluted way of speaking i can possibly imagine, and that’s what makes it amazing
Love everything about Mr Elba. I want to be like him when I grow up.
The Jamaican influence on British slangs is sooo apparent. -Blah blah blah- Renkin- ting- a few more he mentioned. Hahaha
all blacks in uk are either african or jamaican. heavy influence in the urban culture
So true! The first, "tings" haha.
Ok I thought it was just me who heard that! I was like well wait 🤔 that sounds awfully a lot like.. 😂
History is saying Duuuuuuhhhhhhhhh.
🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
There's already 4-5 british slangs, and i still want more.
Akmal How much British slang is out there
Arthur Curry well there are lots of different areas of Britain and each area has its own version/own slang words that they use so it really depends where you are. But there is a lot
There’s 4 countrys in the UK and in those countrys there’s regions all with different slangs,dialects and accents
If you wanna learn London slang, watch black british youtubers. I say black because 1 gotta rep my people and 2. they use the slang more frequently. aAs well as slamg thats more known with the younger generation. Just use urban dictionary everytime tou come across is. And no KSI doesnt count.
@@whybother4156 Think you mean counties
Live near London, only have heard:
• ting
• fit
• barney
• apples
• bait
• innit
• rank
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He is can be a very good teacher, he provides background,explanation and examples.
IKR, I love the way he explained what it means to be a cockney.
Alot of these slangs are actually influenced by Jamaican Patois...Even the some slangs in Toronto is influenced by patois...Wi likkle but wi tallawah.
Yep. Just Jamaican patois - straight!
Yup. Init
Most of this is Caribbean Creole🗿 straight up TT
I was actually going to comment that.
Ting
Barney rubble=trouble
Apples and pears=stairs
Alan wickers=knickers
Adam and Eve= believe
Basically take a two worded phrase or name that rhymes with the original word, and use the unrhymed word to refer to the original word. That cockney rhyming scheme is interesting.
Innit?
not as interesting as unnecessarily complicated
M That was the point, to make sure the Police didn’t know what they were saying. However nowadays the Police in London use slang too so it’s pretty much pointless now. Danny Dyer is the only person who thinks he’s still under the radar when he speaks.
@@JayWelton92 Right, I believe that's the general idea behind slang, but this seems like it would often confuse people using it, too. Or am I just very non-English? :D
M Well if you aren’t English or British in general then it’s unlikely that you’ll have heard of any of these terms. The slang back then like I said had an actual purpose, which most “modern” slang does not it’s simply what becomes popular amongst younger generations.
This video is specifically London slang with a mixture of Cockney rhyming and Grime, which is heavily influenced by Jamaican culture.. nobody outside of London would use words like “ting”, not unless they have severe learning difficulties.
I love Brit flicks but the first time I watched Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels this scene made me happy the subtitles were hardcoded czcams.com/video/73d6h_go7QI/video.html
That’s the beauty of context clues 👌🏽 You don’t need to know any slang in advance - just listen 💁🏽♀️
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I can not look at him while speaking without seeing and hearing stringer bell. Blows my mind how people can preform other accents so convincing!
'I saw my guy the other day, yo he had me bennin,' PAUSE
😂
Lmaooooo that's madddd Ayoooo 😭😂
Super Pause.
What would you say tho?
Yeah that was a weird example.
I had never noticed that ting with his teeth
Oh he British British 🤣🤣🤣🤣 i can’t
Same bruv, same
OoO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭you had to go there🤦🏾♀️
😁😁😁😁😁😂😂😂😂😂😂🇹🇹
Lmao me either!!! Still fine though
Knuckles teaches British slang
3:45 Its pronounced “One Tens”
T
Yeah who says eleven o s's 😂😂😂
They should have got Stormzy 🙄
@@OoSweetCheekso0 mans should have got skepta
@Joe S hmmm I'm not sure, One Tens is old skool, used in the 90s. But it's true, can't know it all 🤷🏾♀️
If you love Idris listen to: Boasty
L. AC so fireee!!!!
L. AC song is fire
And I write for myself no ghosty ...
L. AC THAT SONG IS FIREEEEEEEEEEE
Boasty man I'm boasty
"Even the Americans know this one"
Me, sweating: I've never heard this before in my life
Lool 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seriously?
Yep! Born and raised in Mile End mate.
I hadn't realized before how British this guy is.
It is just amazing for me, seriously.
It’s London slang lol that’s why there’s so much Jamaican influence
Nah bruv. Used up and down the UK, predominantly in big cities where there are black people around.
There are Jamaicans in other parts of country besides London lol
Ms Entrepreneur but they’re predominantly in london
@@thefashionhoe just as much is Birmingham, and the West Midlands . Birmingham is the second biggest city. And country wide, there's more Jamaicans than London.
Ms Entrepreneur okay
I definitely did NOT know about the apples and pears thing LMAO!
Lily L: Seriously, who would?! Lol I love Idris, but I don’t know what Americans he knows that use/know that phrase. 🤷🏽♀️
@@TooCoolforCardi Right?!? Lmao! Like, I'm glad he thinks we know stuff, but too much credit! 😭
Lily L sorry how???
Oh u must be American enough said 😴
Ting
Lily L it's simple rhyming slang. What rhymes with pears? Stairs!
I love the tone of this man's voice ❤️
Thank you for this. 🌻
Good lord this man is fine.
kikiwest2001 Amen he is!!!😍😍❤️
Don’t u mean fit
Fit**
should've gotten 21 savage to do it
This deserves more credit. Lol
William Wang 😂😂😂😂
William Wang that would’ve been truly savage by VOX
OOOOOH BUUUUURN
You beat me to it!!
I can learn all.those in a minute listening such lovely man😘❤❤❤
Thanks Idris. Some respect is due to Jamaica for “Ting” and “Reh Tah Tah” which means etc in a positive way btw 😉
Laura Levy Jamaica deserves more credit for Ting, it’s the best drink imo
Lol fo real lol
Nahh Idris! How can you say "Eleven Oh Ess" 🤦🏽♀️ they are pronounced "One Tens", basically Nike Air Max 95s
Lol I was looking for this comment
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣....i was baffed to begin with...."11 oh S's"....wtf
Omg 😂
Lool yep, Idris couldn't have been more wrong on that one, sigh.
JB92192 I was looking for this comment too 😂😂
Idris Elba is such a beautiful, beautiful man.
Miss Vendetta would u like to marry him ?
@Tarzan Looooooool
@Tarzan wtf😂😂😂😂
@@hypnotizerable I feel sorry for you that you feel the need to try and make someone else feel bad. I hope you have a better day today.
Thanks for posting
Right the only ones i know and i live in the Leicestershire area are:
(100 miles off London to be precise)
Bare
Ting
Fit
Peng
Rank
Manky
Shook
Innit
Don't air
(theres probs more but i can't think of the them)
most of the ones he said i had no clue about
chirp literally means the exact opposite in Canada 😂 like running your mouth, kinda roasting and getting under someone’s skin
Marissa Kayleen idk if it’s just because I live so close to Canada (Michigan) but we use chirp in the same way
In London we use that too. Like “your chirping up” or “he’s chirping up like I won’t slap him” but chirpsing is chatting up a fit lady lol. So the difference is the “S”
It's not 'chirp', it's 'cherps'. Strictly speaking, it's West Indian-derived and has since become London street slang.
In London we say 'cussed/grilled/roasted/dissed/mugged off' as our equivalent to your 'chirping'. Yh. Chirpsing ain't really used anymore in London. If you wanna talk to a girl or get with them we now say "I'm gonna try and 'link'/'move to'/'chat up' that ting". I'm 20 so some slang ppl like Idris use has evolved but some stay the same. A lot of our moderm slang is shaped by America, the Caribbean, memes and current events.
In Toronto we say beaking
110s ..... Just realise he was talking about "1 tens".... Lmaoooo wtf is a "11 Oh S's". ONE TENS MY G!
Ok smelly slag
Yh its one tens not eleven ohs. Not so down with the kids are you idris?
One Tens Idris,mate... which means Nike Air max 95’s...The first £110 air max’...Old skool (1995) talk...nutten new. 120’s are 97’s.
It's just a stupid saying at the end of the day.
He’s a oldhead Lowe him
Idris Elba: I know nothing about British slang, I have been set up
Also Idris Elba: Knows all of the British slang
Me: I have been set up
In Cuban spanish we have a slang that goes like this "Asere que bola, que vuelta" this basicly means in english "Hey man whats up or Hey mate what you up to" this is also a very trustful gesture which you dont tell to everyone, I know this video is about english slangs but I wanted to share this with everyone
"Bow bells" actually refers to the bells of the church St Mary-le-Bow on Cheapside in the City of London, rather than Bow, the district of east London
Bang on, the originals were destroyed in the war.
He has such a strong British Accent
*East-London
Ishan Ali I love it 😍
His accent is really thick. It’s suits him very nicely.
Ishan Ali yeah, thats a classic east london accent
Ishan Ali British accent isn’t really a thing. Just many regional dialects. Scottish people are British and they don’t really sound like that now do they?
Black Superman! Also a very great movie actor, I loved the Hobbs and Shaw movie and the Takers movie!
Thanks for teaching us, Mr Knuckles
110s is not - 'eleven-oh-s', it is pronounced 'one-tens' and it means a pair of air max 95s (bcos that is how much they used to cost here £110)
Well how much do they cost now then
@@tlamelangmasemola 130-150
np tmg still 1-10 dough
That's the only one he got wrong...
We called Air Max 90s 110s because they cost £110 similar to Air Max 90s they cost £90 so we called them 90s.
Nowadays everything has gone up in price but they are still identified by those terms.
Precisely
hes actually so hot (even though hes older than my mum) that clear skin though im lost for words
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Bit of a correction: “Born under the Bow Bells” doesn’t refer to any church in Bow... it refers to Mary Le Bow church on Cheapside (in the city, running between St Paul’s and Bank of England). So being a cockney actually puts you a lot more central than you would think, but London has of course sprawled over the years. Sorry Idris.
I can listen to him all day 😍
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Sips tea*
Interesting information....
-4 Subscribers with a hammer addiction that wasn't funny
Taryn's tv. Dang you straight up told them
Rey Skyhopper yeah dawg I'm just a honest person lmao
Taryn's tv. Lol
When Idris Elba explains British slang words with more British slang words 😂
For someone who doesn't know a lot of British slang, you did very well, Idris Elba
"Renew my cockney license..." I was about to ask.
All of these are London slang, not really applying to the rest of the UK (mostly).
Each individual region has its own slang terms, which are each a study in themselves.
Not really most of this is said all across England minute the rhyming slang lol
Rest of the UK, in response to this video: "Am I a joke to you?"
I loved Idris Elba teaching me British slang. He had me bennin.
Me too it was cool and funny
Wish I saw this before starting top boy!
Knuckles the echidna
When you’re British and you don’t know half of these😂
I thought I was the only one😂
Ikr it’s mostly London/south east slang 😂
Because you're not an idiot
Ok I’m American and I know about half of these I’m so confused
Mia Segal prolly don’t hang around the streets
we had a lot of Jamaican influence
And American influence we influence the whole world in slang
@Catheey not like they say it but it is Influence by Americans we rule the world
Frog 00 no.Americans make up words that 14 year olds use.
@@mozartz73 Yeah that's true too...
Lol someone is seriously bent about Americans 😂😂
Spot on !! Even I didn't know a few
Ting is also a lovely citrus beverage in Jamaica 🇯🇲❤️
Its just jamenglish with slices of cockney on top... what a beautiful mash up .... maybe its because im a Londoner.... love it
I strongly believe "big up" "big man ting" is Caribbean based.
Marcus Dulgar Jamaican to be exact.
No
@@Rite3man no its not it a Caribbean thing why do u guys associate everything with Jamaica? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Jeavon Kenson well because Jamaica says it a lot, even here in America soooo yea, other Caribbean countries use it a lot too
Jeavon Kenson Because Jamaican Slang is a major influence on the youths in England and Canada. Jamaican Dancehall music is the vehicle.
My mom is in love with this man and I can see why lol
In Liverpool 110’s, or “One Tens” are slang for Airmax 95’s.
Give him the Bond job already!
Too old!
Please no.
@@potterpotty01 he's 3 years older than Daniel Craig was when he first played Bond....he's not too old, just middle aged...haha...also..Sean Connery and Roger Moore weren't spring chickens when they started either....
James bond isn't black and i'm not being racist it just a fact he's a white character,just like if they got a white guy to play shaft in a film it wouldn't be right
@@crossy8529 But Shaft's blackness is an important part of the character.
James Bond's whiteness is essential for his character? Could a black actor have portrayed Bond in any of movies without being distracting? I don't think so.
Love the fact that Idris knows he’s “buff” because he is so again I’m glad ‘he’s in the know’ 🤷🏽♀️
pov knuckles is teaching you british slang
Hah! "Don't get your Alan in a twist." I loved that!
"See what I did there" sly Idris Elba, sly.. 😂😂
Bruh that’s so obvious 😂 tf u mean by sly
who else is here just to see Idris and dont even know what he is saying. He just gorgeous!
2:48 I was looking for this one 😌
❤️ love the British accent,..
Stringer Bell. Who remembers that guy.
First time I heard the American accent.. then I saw him in Rock N Roll with the British accent.
Why I’m here lol
Never knew his bottom teeth looked like that
The top row seems veneers..so strange indeed. Maybe he left it like that rather than straighten it out in order to keep it natural
The Brits do not take much pride in straightening teeth like we do in USA.
@@foxxyldyfrca yet they love veneers
Even with teeth like that he could get any girl he wants hahaha
And now I can't unsee it
I LOVE this man.
I am no woman, but i get how they feel.
his voice 🥺😍
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