Americans Guess The Meaning Of British Phrases Ft. Freddie, Jazzmyne & Kelsey
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- Join Americans Kelsey, Freddie, Jazzmyne, Jeff, and Isabel as they try to guess the meaning of common British phrases and sayings
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When Americans think the only British accent is a London accent
@Ginger have a London accent lmao was just sayin💅
Ginger shut up ✨🧚🏻♀️
Ginger atleast people who don’t live in London don’t get acid thrown in their face smh🤦🏼♂️
Ginger you’re definitely a Londoner defending London in every comment even though nothing bad is being said about it, there are batter places in England (since that’s where London is) than London lol.
@Ginger wtf is that supposed to mean
Who else came knowing that they will get triggered?
me
yup
Right here 😂😂
Me
always
If Jazzmyn has an Uncle Robert.... technically ‘Bob’ IS her Uncle? 😂
Lmao I thought of that too
But it doesn't mean that
@@stevenjohnson4190 Bob is short for Robert.
@@kithand1106 lol yes I know. And now that I read it again I have no idea why I commented that in the first place.. I'm a muppet
How does Robert turn into Bob? Wouldn't it be Rob?
In my 35 year old british existence I've never heard anyone say ' your bum's out the window".
@Ginger Of course it is. Bampot.
Nah I haven’t either, at first I thought it was another one for you’re hanging out your arse.
Ginger you’re really living up to your stereotype in these comments sections. What are you so mad about?
I think its actually 'yer bums oot the windae' 😂
@Ginger thank u, that makes a lot more sense. looking at. I thought it was extremely ridiculous but now it's in a scottish accent i can see it
I’d love to see them try and guess roadmen slang 😂
they already did that (but with q and destiny i think)
Nobody wants to hear that anyways. You poor chavs can keep it for yourselves
😂😂😂😂
Alright shag
Chavs and roadman are complete opposites
They’re all having a field day, aren’t they? Bob’s Ya Uncle and Fanny’s ya aunt. And they’ll all happy as Larry.
😂😂😂
And Fred's your cousin, as my Grandad used to add on the end.
livin' the life of Riley
Bobs ya uncle, fannys ya aunt, ya nans a Tory and yer granddads dead
😂😂
After “bobs your uncle” you can say “fanny’s your aunt” as well 😂
Came to the comments just to see if someone finished the saying 😂
"Robert's your father's brother."
I'd love to see Americans try a week of British GCSEs 😆
Go watch Evan Edinger, he’s an American who lives in the UK, and did GCSE videos
@Ginger love to see u try an a level
Sanskar Wagley yeah he’s rlly smart
Ginger they might be “easy” but preparing for them certainly isn’t
@@SanskarWagley I have, it doesn't count because he's experienced British education 😂 I'm thinking they do a full week of the ones like history, English, higher maths and geography
So triggering them saying ey up in a posh southern accent and not northern 😂
Or Midlands. Whenever I slip up and say 'ey up, duck' to anyone in London, I get the weirdest looks.
It'd be like saying y'alright lar in a posh accent 😂
I’m from London but I’d put on a northerner accent for that one.
Tbf for them today probably easier to do a posh accent based on their vowel sounds
Now y’all all know how we feel when y’all try southern accents, valley accents, and when you talk about Starbucks. Lol. It just goes wrong, so I sympathize with you.
"I have been to the UK before!...I've travelled."
No, you went to London. There's a difference.
Is London no longer in the UK? When did it get it's Independence?
@@jedislap8726 are you American?
@@erin1811 No. Not that that would change matters. If that person had been to London then they have been to the UK.
Ikr I swear Americans think the whole of the UK is just a bigger version of london
@@jedislap8726 no they haven't they have been to England there is a difference
Saddened no “it’s Blackpool illuminations in here”
This is my childhood right here 😂
“Put big light on”
YESSS
Ooo that's a good one!!!
wayyyyyyy!!!! love to see it!
My favourite British sayings are
"You've made a dog's arse of that" and " you couldn't hit a bulls arse with a shovel"(of someone with bad aim).
I always heard "you couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo"
@@klymers which is the correct phrase. And should be one for a video 2.
You’ve made a pigs ear that
Dogs arse? Never heard that. Just pigs ear
couldn't hit water from a boat
As a British person this makes me feel a bit ill
It's the SJW Corona you've caught watching this vid
As an American this makes me feel I'll as well
Why should they get it, how many Americanisms do you know.
It’s their accents butchering our beautiful slang that has killed me
Who knows this one Joe blake
I never realised how much our sayings don't make sense I just kinda went along with it and everyone just knows what they mean
cockney rhyming slang butchers hook have a look
knees up refers to song knees up mother brown
I don’t even remember learning these i just know it
Yet the American's have our phrase of "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
If anything, that makes zero sense.
@@yggdrasil7942
I've never heard anyone in the US say that.
"You make a better door than a window"
Means
Get out the way of the telly
We use that in the u.s. haha
My mum says you're not made of glass so shift your arse
Yep!
This really tickled me thank you. It's just so britsh and tru as hell
@@witchbitch1238 😂 it really is
This is definitely London-centric, but even in London a lot of these are uncommon for anyone under about 60yo
lived in london my whole life and not heard most of these. agree most are old people only lol
@@hollymackintosh2270 these are all very northern. im 22 and hear all of these on a daily basis
@@lolajenkins2674 ah i see
I use alot of these, I'm from London. Even if youngsters don't really use them they do understand them cos they are brought up with em. 'bog standard' isnt London though. Have a Butchers is from rhyming slang to have a look and alot of people use it in London, even if it's only at home. I'd not understand alot of teenagers slang though. Lol.
Who’s going to tell her that bob is short for Robert? So Bob IS her uncle 😂
Please do scouse (Liverpool) slang and phrases 😂 it’s so funny watching Americans try and guess what they mean, most English people don’t understand us 🤣
Ginger I mean not wrong 🤷♂️
Ginger true
Nah bruh everyone don't understand uses
Dirty scouser
i hate when you tell someone you're from liverpool and they want you to say chicken and chips
They should've done "Were you born in a barn?"
yess
They use that in America.
Whenever they said “Bob’s your uncle” I instinctively said “Fanny’s your aunt”
Haha same 😂
I'm from the South in the UK and cant understand people saying they've never heard half of them, there was only one I hadn't heard, and despite what some people are saying in the comments, most of them are not Northern.
Nah haven’t heard most of them and from Cardiff reckon a lot are just southern things
The bum out the window one? 😂
@@tashajane1360 Yes.
A lot of them are north, as in north of England, not the UK
Right! Lol I’m from Birmingham and know all of them a part from one
You should play them accents and ask them if it's from Northern England, Southern England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland or Ireland.
Would be fun. :D
Is there a difference between N. Ireland and Ireland?
@@carbon5362 yeah big difference. even town to town in the uk it is different.
@@CabbageDynamite_Lucy I knew about the ton to town thing but I thought the only difference between them was that one was part of the UK. Do the have different cultures and stuff like that?
@@carbon5362 I am not Irish, but in school we had to learn about the Irish wars and how different the parts of the country were and people would get attacked for entering the wrong part of the country. It was 8 years ago at this point that I was taught it, so I may be hazy on it, but I remember it being a big thing, to the point that people that were for Ireland hated if you said they were British. I am welsh, N. english and S. english, and there are so many different things about the three parts, to the point I used to get bullied for saying words different just 'cause I learnt them the Northern way.
I recommend looking it up, as there are people way more in the know.
@@CabbageDynamite_Lucy Oh wow I had no idea there were Irish wars. Also on the accent thing I notice that people in the UK put way more emphasis on accents than people in the US. It is like the last thing you recognize when speaking to someone.
the 'bob's your uncle' thing is from a prime minister Robert Cecil who appointed a bunch of his family to important government just because they were family
Arthur Balfour (a distant relative of mine) was the Prime Minister and his Uncle was Robert Cecil. I think Cecil got him into the House of Lords after his political career was over. He basically got a sweet deal cos of who he was related to....none of it managed to find its way to my family though lol
And now they're tearing down his statue cos he's a racist dick (y)
@@JeMappellePercy Karma.
Now known as 'Boris is your brother...'
Please stop using the words "British" and "English" as synonyms.
👏THANK👏YOU👏
Well then don't get conquered by the English next time.
@@markkinz7913 I am English. I don't understand your comment :S
@@markkinz7913 you're saying Britain was conquered by England? Are you good?
Chris Betton if he’s saying that wales and the Scottish and Irish were conquered by England, he needs to learn some history about the British isles pre-roman empire, when the Saxons and Picts lived at peace
I’m from the uk and have never heard the bum out of the window one at all!
Thats because its scottish and said in a scottish accent
It’s “yer bum’s oot the windae”, definitely not “your bum is out the window”
Only one I'd never heard before. Is it a london saying?
nathanbloke don’t think it’s used outside of Scotland but it’s a pretty common saying up here!
As a glaswegian living in london...I'm looked at weirdly when I say it 😂
Definitely a Scottish saying
Everyone's saying they haven't heard of these but they're pretty common?
It definitely depends on where you're from in the UK. I knew like 80% of these.
I think age also has something to do with it.
Age plays a role too, or generational. I dont know half of these lol
It can't be age, I'm 16 and I know these.
Deffo depends on where you’re from and how old you are, I literally thought everyone knew these
Please can you North slang like geordie and Yorkshire slang it would hilarious to watch them try and say and guess what they mean 😂
They'd have a right time tryna guess Geordie 😂
It would be hilarious to watch 😂
@@ellie7327 yeah
Cries in Lancashire
or scousers
" No my uncles David "
Instead of dogs dinner, I'm more familiar with 'pig's ear', which of course, you might give to a dog for dinner, so maybe that's the link.
a pig's ear is more of a severe fuckup when you were not expected to fail, often because of a willfully stupid decision you made.
A dog's dinner is when you don't even get the execution right, like not holding onto the bike handles or falling off the treadmill before you even start it up.
@@SantomPh 😂😂😂
I always took "dogs dinner" as making a big deal/fuss. Taking a small job making it last last for ages.
In the midlands we all say
“Eyup mah duck”
'ow am ya?
I'm somewhat in the Midlands and I love that phrase so much XD It's sad that I haven't heard it in a while, honestly the last time I probably heard it was at a blummin' pantomime and the audience shouts back "Ey up Dick!" Cuz it was dick whittington (I can't spell so sorry if that's wrong). I also love the phrase even more since I, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, got the nickname "Rubber Duck" and I love it and sometimes it's shortened to Ducky which ppl literally do call some ppl here in Britain XD
“Black ova bills mothers”
The guy who lives in Britain. I love how he got most of them wrong but went super enthusiastic over a cheeky Nando’s. 🍔🌯🥤
“Get a butchers knife- life” 🤣 making up cockney rhyming on the spot!
Alisi Degei sounds like a threat ngl
doesn't work.
Butchers have meat hanging on butchers hooks.
Not that.
Butchers hook - look
@@stevenjohnson4190 you both right.... the butchers hook is an actually thing in the butchers shop used to hang meat as well as rhyming slang... it wouldn't be rhyming slang if it didn't come from proper words
@@Assassin123999 indeed.
When I saw it I knew immediately that it was cockney slang but I thought it was butchers shop- pop as in a coke or something 🤷🏽♀️
@@ceciliacalhoun1607 in London at least, a "coke" is any kind of soft drink except Fanta, which is called Fanta.
"Bob's your uncle" comes from a story of nepotism. Robert Cecil was a former prime minister who gave his nephew a job. So we say it when something happens easily or is given to you easily.
Her uncle is robert.Then bob is actually her uncle
7:29 - oh gosh
7:31 - please stop
7:32 - SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
7:34 - AAAAAAAARRGHHHHH
😂😂😂😂 every chav in my area ever
Wish they'd done more Midland and Northern phrases like 'duck'
"you right duck", and "now then" typical midlands greetings. "stop been a mardy bum", and "he's throwing a paddy" for those miserable insufferable bastards, having a gander, taking a look, having a chin wag, having a chat etc etc etc and so many more
Yeh no one in America knows midland slangs 😂
ey up me duck.
Haha I would love them to do Midlands because we just speak a different type of 'british English'
K but why does jeff always do so badly he literally lives in England, flexes at the beginning of every video and then doesn’t perform 😂😂 I just find it kinda funny 😂😂
It doesn’t sound right when Americans say British phrases it makes me question the phrases😂
This just in. British does not mean English. This is basically English and mostly London slang. I'd actual die if they attempted to understand Scottish phrases 😂 Props to them though. I can imagine it must be hard to try and understand phrases you've never heard before with no context.
I'd guess that the person at Buzzfeed UK who chose and sent the phrases must be a Londoner then.
Ha my family is 50% scottish and i need a translator lol
@@chiprbob I wouldn't be surprised. Probably
Can I say as a British person some of these phrases I’ve never heard of.
Same here 😂
@@So1asola It's obviously not middle class, though, is it.
@@So1asola people definitely still say have a butchers though
Some of them are very northen
these phrases are so old lol
They should have used some good old Scottish phrases like "ah dinnae kin" or "fit like" or gone northern Irish with "so it is".
Angela Potter And then trying to do those phrase in a posh English or cockney accent 😂
@@zkw100 For real. 😂 It would have both angered me and entertained me at the same time. 😅
They should have asked them the full ‘ey up mi duck’ that would have got a funnier response I think
I must say mah duck 50 times a day
Bit dark over Bill's mother's...
"EY Up!" Is said in a terribly pronounced northern accent and said as one word, pronounced "Eyop"
Eyup mah duck
And it's very widely used in the Midlands too . Especially ey up me duck
"English is not english everywhere, theres just a completely different language here" I hope he has realised that he does live in England were the english language originated from
However, none of the people living in England speak the original language and more than likely he's descended from some of the people who helped invent it.
@@chiprbob That's completely false, a myth spread by Americans. Many parts of the UK have retained accents and words more than Americans.
@@AlexOjideagu2 English people do not speak like they did 200, 300, 400 years ago. Even with nearly 50 dialects in England, the English language has evolved in all of England over the past several hundreds of years. Every language evolves.
It's all gone pete tong..... 🤣
I've heard 50%-70% of these and I'm from manny
Im British Yorkshire woman I've heard most uk small but so many city's here we all have our own slang
I’d never heard ‘you make a better door than a window’ I thought by the sound of it, it was ‘your arse looks better than your face’. Didn’t have a clue what ‘your bum is out the window’ meant so I think a few must just be a southern only thing.
@@luvmusicutb I havnt heard that either but some of my friends and people ik live in like london and that so I only heard some of them cause of them
@@luvmusicutb and other parts of the country
Same and I’m from Salford
I didn't know "Bob's your uncle" was British. I've heard it a lot in the US
The entire language was from Britain so...
“You make a better door than a window”, my mum used to say that all the time to me, it means “stop standing in front of the TV”
I’m from the north of England, and I say Ey Up all the time, it’s my normal greeting, along with “ya reet?”
you should do phrases that most of the UK actually use, like the slang that everybody uses currently
Erm.. ‘English is a completely different language over here’ ......in England? Is he saying the English language is spoken incorrectly.. in England?? England. English in England? Wth 😳😂
No, he just said it's different
@Gaytony Different from American English
Lol. I'm American and I've gotten to the point where I refer to what I speak as American, based on English but, now has evolved into it's own language.
They speak English in London LOL? Sounds like caw bloimey, innit, row at da barra. From Cornwall.
so ive learned a lot about my own country/language today (what are these phrases)
i’m ded 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same 😂😂
Seems quite old-fashioned. I've heard Bob's your uncle though
Ali C yh dame that’s the only one
I'm British and I've never in my life heard that😂
i think it’s like older cockney slang lol
Ey up is regional - you don’t really find it much outside the North of England. There used to be a really funny TV show called Last of the Summer Wine set in Yorkshire, and the characters used ‘ey up’ as a greeting, but I grew up in Scotland, so I only heard it on TV until I moved to Yorkshire in my 20s. The first time I heard someone say it in real life, I burst out giggling, because I associated the phrase with comedy so strongly.
please Jeff, turn your sockets off when your not using them🙏
A similar way of saying bog standard is saying it was just your 'run of the mill... '
I’m British and haven’t heard of most of these (or I only know variations of them!)
Same here 😂😂
I’ll guess your 15 or younger then
Toby Emmett nope!
I’ve heard all of em duck
its like pissing in the wind, thats a belta, its like hiding a leaf in a forest, etc etc
"Ey up" tends to be said in certain regions of the UK. I'm from Nottingham and we say it all the time, but I have never heard it in London, for example.
Lol people who havent heard these are defo very young. I've heard a few of these but I'm probably too young to know them all
I mean I'm not that old (early twenties) and I've heard all of them? But I spent a lot of time with very cockney grandparents growing up, which probably impacted things
Khadija Syeda I had heard of most, except the two ones about windows. Definitely not young. Have to google the origin of those.
anybody else get triggered when americans assume all british people talk with a posh accents
@Ginger So I can add basic internet skills and intellectual curiosity to the list of things you lack, along with knowledge of geography and sociology. Good to know.
The only posh ones are rich or from Surrey
Rieka I mean that’s not true, but sure, go off, I guess.
My parents used to say 'Was you born in a barn? Because your names certainly not Jesus' when I used to leave doors open lol
We had were you raised in a barn when you left a door open.
was you born in a barn?
"Do butchers even have hooks, don't they just have knives" - I've never facepalmed harder lmao
They hang their meat on coat hangers 😂
i can’t be the only brit who doesn’t know half these except like bog standard
Just get people with a really strong and broad old geordie accent. Or even scouse and make Americans guess what they're saying.
Aye or Glasgow Edinburgh and Aberdeen
You’ll only understand scouse if you are from Liverpool or you watch MNF
Scouser here. They guess im Australian most of the time
@@bencameron539 I mean any strong accent from the north of England or Scotland is nearly impossible for non locals to understand
Most of these phrases are Cockney/East London (rhyming slang) but there are phrases from all over the country including Geordie, Scotland and Wales.
Did kelsey just high 5 herself! OMG i love her even more now! 😂😂😂
They are over complicating 'Bob's your uncle' and 'Bog- standered'
I haven’t heard any of these phrases and I’m from London make them do what you saying and you a leng ting styl
Probably because you’re too young 🤷🏼♀️
Because these are all very Northern phrases, come to Yorkshire and you will hear them on a daily basis
Denise Allcock not really, they’re heard down south as well
@@miickiie97 yes they are very Northern phrases. And lol i didn't say they aren't heard down south too, just that if she hasnt ever heard them in london then try going to yorkshire
Denise Allcock one of them was even cockney rhyming....not northern 😂
Ahhahaha love these sorts of videos! So funny when people say ‘bobs your uncle’ because yes I have an uncle called bob 😂
Them trying to say cheeky nandos in a nice RP or cockney London accent is hilarious to me
when a phrase comes up and we brits read it in a northen accent but they pronounce it in rp.... 😭😭
I want them to do northern slag. That’ll be a right laugh🤣
that would be funny im form stoke and have Yorkshire friends and the one thing they say that kills me every time is "who pissed on your chips"lol
“I’ll have a butcher’s, I’ll have what She’s having.” 🤣🤣🤣 Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt.
Oooo, yall should do norn iron slang (northern Irish for people who don’t know). Eg “*pointing to your the inside of your eye* jump in”, “I’ll run you over”, what’s the craic?, bin hoker, buck eejit, wee, boggin, bout ye?, banjaxed and foundered to name a few. Bare in mind some other places also use these
'ey up duck.
VampyRagDoll ey up chuck (my science teacher's greeting)
A lot of these phrases are old... SO I know them! but the bum window one??? nope. A northern thing maybe? Ey up, more of a northern thing. Rhyming slang is a London thing and is defo an older generation thing, people under 40 might have trouble.
I also knew them all except that one. I'm from the Midlands so let's blame the North 😆
Nah, they just need to talk to a wider variety of people. I'm in my early twenties and I got all of them - but I spent a lot of time with two sets of grandparents growing up, which meant I was basically marinated in all of these sayings. And then I say them around posh acquaintances and they look at me like "..."
I'm Scottish and we say "yir bums hinging oot the windae" try getting Americans to read that. Lol
@@closetrocker81 lol
The amount of times my mum said ‘’you make a better door than a window’’ to me when I walked past the telly when she was watching Emmerdale is baffling.
The cheeky nandos is the only relatively new one in there xo Should've included newer slang like bants or such haha.
"english is not english everywhere, its not over here" mate its called ENGLISH coz its from ENGLAND so actually its different in america and ENGLISH in ENGLAND
I want to see more cities shown than London and its outskirts!! Big up Brum
I love Freddie omg! and that is actually a sick name
When Ey Up came up I was soooo excited! Bit more northern than the typical ones. Should've gone with Ey up me duck to really confuse!
Butcher’s Hook ffs Hook...Look!
not even people in the UK can understand geordie slang, god what i would do to see americans try to interpret geordie
Fascinatingly, this video only scratches the surface. The follow-up video should be "guess the Geordie slang".
The amount of times my dad says that I make a better door than a window 🙄🙄 instead of appreciating the fact I'm socialising with others for once he just wants to see the telly.
Outdated terns tbh, unless I am super uncultured
I havent heard 80% of these...and I'm from the south
@Lola Sandall-Henry I'm from the south and I know all of them :)
@Lola Sandall-Henry Yeah, good point!😂
I know the traditional ones but when it got to "cheeky nandos" I got lost and I'm British from birth! Have a day off!
These are great actually :D
ey up is a Yorkshire phrase
Please research more regional phrases and stuff, Wales, Scotland, Irish, even Northen England. Not just London please
These aren’t “London” phrases, aside from Butchers. They are standard british phrases from decades ago.
@@xPidgexSmithx sure
Tits up and nando's is used where I am- in Edinburgh.
There literally all used in Yorkshire
Im from Liverpool and ive been told by americans that my accent is fake cos im not ‘posh’ like we dont all speak the queens english there is northerners aswell ya know
The only way your posh in Britan is if your rich so you have "that voice" or you are from Guildford in the Surrey area
to be honest you need interpreters in Liverpool.
Jeff doing all the stupid talks instead of actually guessing ❤️😂 is so damnn funny & cute
I’d love to see them try Scottish and Welsh phrases/places.
Please do some video explaining or showing the difference between accents across England or even Britain if you can be arsed, seems like everyone’s noticed that they’ve only really experienced London :)
ye where are the leeds accents lmaooo it will be hilarious for them to try it
social climbers love _ I’m from Leeds n all
Mollie Slinn weyyyyyyyy 💛💙💛
social climbers love _ ALAW💙💛
It's amazing how many different accents are in England. PR or queens English, Cockney, Liverpudlian, Manchurian = Manchester, Yorkshire etc
I don't know if it's because I'm a scot but there are quite a few I don't know. Goes to show how many dialects there are within the uk itself.