7 'polite' British insult idioms | Politely call someone a total idiot! (+ Free PDF & Quiz)
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Nice 😎
English with Lucy hi Lucy, you’re beautiful and intelligent, ...no more cutting yourself down!
English with Lucy nice music.Can you share the link?
Sorry for Interference but I request you please write the meaning of the PHRASAL VERBS because my listening power is not sooo strong it will be very easy for everyone.
Thanks.
Surely you are not that much if a ditz Lucy!!
In Russian it's said "the circus left but the clowns stayed"
Now a German did borrow that :)
Thought that was Washington DC.....
@@I12Cewe But the clowns got kicked out when Trump arrived.
@@sunnyjim1355 he brought all the clowns, despite them being jailed one by one, and he's the biggest clown of all. Complete with clown orange cotton hair, clown makeup, tiny clown hands, gigantic clown ass and belly, clown anus shapped mouth, and clown behavior.
"The circus left, but the clowns stayed."
I'm going to steal that one...
"This could've been used to describe me actually" I love it😂
All if the anecdotes and stories Lucy gave for each seen to confirm one of the sayings about blondes.... Although it appears from her demeanour that she also has more fun than most too....
Yes she so sweet 🤣👏🏻
Playing the dumb blonde role is a female tactic that works well with men who aren't the sharpest tool in the shed.
For every single one of them!!
You know that time of the night when you go to bed and you’re trying to fall asleep, but your troll brain decides this is the best time to remind you all the embarrassing things you’ve done? 😂 We’ve all been there
I'm American, and I like the "He's about to engage in a battle of wits unarmed" one when used in reference to a buddy about to start being argumentative or say something particularly unwise.
I have used that one when warning someone not to start an arguement, too.
Can't TRUMP that.!
I've heard it as "I refused to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
"He's one brick shy of a full load"
Just for fun, I like this one:
"It is better to be silent and THOUGHT a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt"
I was secretary to some American oil men. They liked " don't pee on my boots and tell me it's raining"
@@maureendavidson4635 Thanks for sharing. Now that I've read this, I'll keep it in my pocket, for an appropriate moment. ;)
That's the most common sense pragmatic one that everybody should remember to themselves everyday.
Legendary. this his how the former German chancellor referred to D. Trump in a speech. 😂
My dear dad told us the "'Tis better to remain silent" line over forty years ago.
My dad had the best lines.
"Use your head for something besides a block to keep your ears apart"
In Finnish, especially when someone is talking nonsense: ”The wheel is rolling but the hamster has died”
Or>>> She does not have all the screws tightened.
Brilliant
How is it said in Finnish?
i'm Finnish and I have never heatd that before :D
Poor hammy
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”-Winston Churchill.
"Madam, I'll be sober in the morning..."
“If you were my husband, I’d put poison in your tea!”
-Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it.
WC
Sadly, we no longer seem to produce wits such as that.
In the Southern USA, I’ve often heard the phrase, “ Bless his heart” followed by whatever slight. Gives the appearance that the person giving the slight is compassionate.
Yeah, because looking up to war criminals is the English way.
I thought that was Diplomacy.
I remember a teacher saying "If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous"
I know, I was being insulted and I kicked the desk and stormed out the classroom because kids were laughing at me.
The irony is I'm 29 now and I still don't understand it.
so your teacher were right then
"Could have been used to describe me actually," is an idiom used when you want to explain a phrase but at the same time make yourself relatable and to put a smile on your audience. 😝
This deserves a joke of the day. 😄
I remember my late, dearly beloved wife, saying to some man who had annoyed her: "The trouble with you is, that you look inteligent."
Wow! such a subtle burn!👌
When a guy friend dresses up, I sometimes say, "You look (smart/sharp)! You're fooling everyone!"
Awesome !
Damn, that's like a sunburn. You don't realize at first, and then you feel the pain from it and it's that sort of emotional damage that lasts longest.
A classical Latin quote I know tjat always works best since most people don't understand Latin is "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses."(had you stayed silent, you would have remained a philosopher).
The ultimate Southern version is simply “Bless her heart.”
And also "she's just so special "
That is the most polite put down every. It's a southern thing . Lol
@@ronstill3868 It's not polite when people know what it means.
@@johnstrand7456 I've encountered plenty of "special" men, in the south as well. It must be all that inbreeding.
@@theresedavis2526 well, as my sainted Southern Alabama Grandmama used to say "Well. Honey, breeding is a lot of fun, but it ain't everything"
Funny TRUE story: When I was about 6 years old, I was laying in bed, thinking about how much I weigh and if I can lift myself. I weighed about 45 pounds and figured that I could lift that much, so I fell asleep, with an ‘experiment’ brewing in my head. (I was a really weird kid.) The next morning, I got a milk crate, stood in it and tried to lift myself up. Needless to say, it didn’t work, but it wasn’t for lack of effort. I just couldn’t figure out where the flaw in my ‘experiment’ was. 🤔
Today, I’m a retired Electrical Engineer and Physicist. Just one of life’s little ironies. 😂
lol, I was 4, when I went outside after finishing my bowl of Corn Flakes.
I wrapped my arms part way around the biggest tree in the front yard and pulled & pulled. It was not coming out of the ground roots and all, just like in the commercial!
Some things, you just have to try for yourself 🤣
In my defense, I never trusted a commercial again!
+40yrs Industrial Automation Electrical Design
@ William J. You were a creative thinker from a very young age.
That's a sweet story
Thank you for sharing
I used to make water droplets connect and race on a slopping floor 😅😂
Now I really understand the
There’s light in the house but there’s no one home 😂😂😂
As an American, I believe the only one I hadn't heard before was, "Not the full ticket."
My favorite is, "What's your favorite flavor of crayon?"
Me too!
Lies again? Say Sorry Sir Maam
In Argentina we say "it's hard to believe that was the fastest sperm"
hahahha...love it! Brava, Argentina.
can you tell it in spanish cuz am learning the language and it would be very helpful and very kind of you
Well this is straight to the point
Fantastic! I’m going to steal that :)
Oh that's funny :-)
"The elevator doesn't go all the way to the top." One of my favorites.
We have one similar: 'The lift doesn't reach the top floor'
In Argentina, we have a similar one but with a water tank: The water doesn't reach the water tank" XD
The funniest thing, that Lucy illustrated most of these examples with her own personal experiences!!! Super funny!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Examples of her self deprecating humor (yeah, I learned a New word.)
I appreciate the fact that Lucy is self-depreciating, and so, her review of insults doesn´t seem so hurtful, since she accepts that sometimes she deserves the same treatment.
LOL. What depreciation schedule does she use and is it GAAP approved?
*deprecating
A little too much so.
@@reviewaccount469 Clearly Stephen is one French fry short of a full ticket.
Very English tactic! 😂😂😂 not British! English!!!
It’s like the “ I know I’m stupid to even ask this but …”
From Calvin and Hobbes: "His train of thought is still loading at the station."
..."Train of thought -- derailed!"
😆😆
Have used "His train of thought is just a caboose."
In Australia (with a sad smile) "It's so sad when cousins marry." That might have been one of Dame Edna's.
They say, "But we have so much in common."
Yeah, like uncles...
This is so funny cause you at least need to understand genetics 😂
That is a stereotype of some southern U.S. states, too. Like, " their family tree doesn't fork ".
@@ronrice2249 >>> You beat me to it. _"Their family tree has one main trunk, but not a lot of branches."_ 😊
oh loord this is so hilarious 😅😅😅
I really appreciate your self-depricating humour, Lucy! In Australia we use all of the idioms you offered in this video... We also say, "A six-pack short of a slab!" A slab is a carton of beer. 🤪
*self-deprecating.
Brilliant, Lucy! Some of my favorites include, 'his elevator doesn't go all the way up to the top floor', and 'he doesn't have both oars in the water'.
The elevator works in Sweden too.
There’s also an expression about lacking furniture 🪑…
I once had a business call-back to a gentleman in Canada who had been called by mistake. While trying to determine why he had received the call I asked if his phone number was close to that of the local post office.
He said, “No post office here! We’re such a small village that we have to take turns being the idiot!”
Classic Canadian self-deprecating humour.
Hahahaha!!!! 😂
I'm legitimately impressed that you have the confidence in yourself to tell embarrassing stories about yourself. That makes you a badass in my book.
British humour relies on this trait a lot
@@jwi1085 It's good to know how to laugh at yourself. Shows confidence. :)
Someone’s led quite the colorful life!😄
This is termed 'self deprecating humour'.
And Blonde
I’m Canadian and we often use a lot of those idioms. However, we also say “Not the brightest bulb on the (Christmas) tree.” or “A few (playing) cards short of a full deck.” to name a few. Us Canadians tend to beat around the bush as well when we talk about someone. 😅😂
In German we have that expression "to miss some cups in the cabinet" to describe s.o. who is either crazy or dumm. It's close to being one sandwich short of a picnic, but it leaves the option that the person is just a bit mental. In Germany we can also be pretty polite when the situation calls for it and so it can also be said: "He's not an expert for having all cups in the cabinet." That is almost on a British level, don't you think? :D
Thanks for the funny lesson!
"in one ear and out the other, nothing to stop it in between!" - my Dad, lol! (from Nova Scotia, Canada and Boston, Massachusetts, USA!)
In Romanian there is a similar saying - in in one ear and out of the other / (îi) intră pe o ureche și iese pe cealaltă - but it means either one doesn't listen or can't learn a lesson (taught via speech)
Dang that cuts
What? This is the common rebuke from a teacher to describe a student's stupidty, in China!
In Chinese, there is a similar saying " Enter from the left ear and exit ( immediately ) via the right ear "
@@galfawker339 yep, I am Chinese, but that saying in Hong Kong doesn't mean a person is stupid, it means a person is not concentrating, not paying attention, or is absent minded.
In Greece we say:when it was raining brains,you were holding an umbrella
Oh gosh XD
We have similar in India : "when god was distributing brains, you were busy sleeping."
I'm gonna steal that, thanks :)
Thank you !!!! we use to say in french "Il n'a pas la lumière à tous les étages" "He has not the light at every floor !"
Yes. “One French fry short of a happy meal” is an American expression.
I’m from the Southern United States, we say “Her elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top” “Not the sharpest tool in the shed” “Not the brightest crayon in the box” But the sweetest way to insult someone is to say “Bless your heart” depending on how you say it, it could be insulting or genuinely feel sorry for someone.
Bless your heart, I forgot about the crayon box...
Best to you-
Also "Not the sharpest marble in the bag."
And the quintessential “That’s just so precious.” I’m a southern woman and it isn’t the kindest thing to say. I stopped speaking to my cousin for a few years after she used that phrase on my youngest child.
Oh, the Bless your Heart is the best!
It's interesting, that, about 'bless your heart'. The British would never say the whole thing; it's too cringy, too over the top. But it's fairly common now to hear, 'bless 'im/bless 'er' with the meaning of recognising some vulnerability in a person. There is no condescension involved.
How I love she uses every example saying "You could say this about me actually" and then gives us the best story times I've ever heard
In German you can say: "Not the brightest candle on the cake." 😂
I think it was very sweet that you included all these examples
I always use “i think her cheese has slid off her cracker” “their elevator doesnt reach the top floor” and “his choo-choo has gone round the bend!” . I just loved all the ones you pointed out!! Id like to adopt a few for my own use! Thank you!
"It could be used to describe me, actually." I see a pattern emerging here...
I did too
🤔
I was just about to say that 🤣
The pattern is self-deprecating humor
Yes all the above plus she needs a boyfriend imho.. ❤️
Her self deprication makes her endearing lovable and adorable.
Not to mention gorgeous.
Self deprecation is a Jewish trait. Doubly adorable. And ALWAYS in a cheerful mood.
True
@@itajew i didn't know that?!
Oh, she's just blond,,,
And roots weren't grounded,,,
Metaphysically,
Our hair acts as an antenna,
When she did those things,
She wasn't grounded,,
Or her soul energy wasn't fully in her physical body,,
Same thing, different view point,,
But I agree,
As a guy,
Its irrelevant what her topic is,
Its a riveting performance ,,,
Lucky 4 me that I will never meet her in person,
It would be heartbreaking to leave her presence,,
😂 “Not playing with a full deck” , “about as bright as a five watt bulb”, (or burned out light bulb!), and my favorite “he has a mind like a steel trap . . . Full of mice.”
Interesting take on the steel trap saying. I thought it meant quite the opposite. Everything (info)gets in but nothing gets out (always remembered). Heard the expression used to remark how sharp a person was despite not seeming so.
I commonly refer to myself as having a "mind like a steel sive" when I'm having difficulty remembering things.
steel trap rusted shut
I’d forgotten that one… “mind like a steel trap,” said sarcastically… 👍🏼
I love British sarcasm/irony. Once I found a British to Japanese slang dictionary, that was filled with all kinds of crazy slang words I’ve never heard of. Best of all, it was about 40 years old, so many that were no longer in use for listed in the book. I never laughed so hard.
After each expressions : " This can be used to describe me actually "
Thanks for making us laugh while you're teaching us English Lucy !
i was about to say that haha
Yes ! I love people who can laugh at themselves, it is a very postive "virtue" if you ask me... :)
@@Vik4ng I was as well!
Lol
And she is blond 🤣
You're self-deprecating sense of humor is really laudatory. Not everyone has the courage to crack jokes on oneself.
So true! I appreciated that as well.
Self depreciation is pretty standard for the English.
I know for a fact that I can be dumb as a fucking rock, but jesus, I couldn't remember that many dumb stories about my failures even if I tried. I guess it's because they happen too often and I'm kinda used to it.
It’s a script she memorised.
What humour? Nothing funny here, move along now, nothing to see...
If brains were dynamite you couldn't blow your nose.
My favorite is “One can short of a six-pack.” Also, pretty humble of you to list off your dumb moments. 😄
A few German versions: "not the brightest candle on the cake"; "has not all cups in the hutch" or "not all pickets on the fence"
less polite: "if stupidity hurt, you´d be screaming all day"; "IQ around room temperature"
Not to forget „Intelligent like 5 meter of curb.“
@@christophb2736 right :)
Similar to the sandwich-picknick-thing, in german "ihm fehlt ein Groschen zur Mark" - "he is one groschen short of a mark". Where mark is the main currency (in the past) and a groschen is 10 pfennige and so is a tenth of a mark.
Best one I heard was, "If all of the village idiots made a village of idiots, you would be that village's idiot." I think it was from Blackadder.
That's class.
He is about as intelligent as the offspring of a village idiot and a tv weather girl.
wow memories!
I LOVE Blackadder.
In a village full of idiots you would be their major! 😉😘
In french, there's a famous line from a popular movie that became an idiom : "The day the idiots will be able to fly, you'll be a squadron leader." My grandma had a funny one when talking about an idiot: "It's not intelligence that pierces his hat."
There's also the one Coluche used to say often in his shows :" The idiots of tomorrow have already arrived" .(Les idiots de demain sont déjà là )😂😂😂
In danish that would be "Det er ikke studenterhuen der gør ham platfodet" - It is not the student cap that is giving him flat feet
From "every village needs an idiot" and "every idiot needs a village" comes hmmm there's a village somewhere that's short an idiot.
👍❤️🙏 I once used this on a friend - "Where were you when God was dishing out brains?" His instantaneous response - "I was helping Him."
Once someone asked me a question as to whether or not I knew what I was doing. I scowled and said, DO I LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT TO YOU?
They paused - and then said, Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but, yes you do!
I was utterly crushed and left speechless.
Grandmothers in the southern United States will say “Bless your heart” after something stupid is said. This basically means the person in question needs all the help they can get because they’re an idiot.
"they're an idiot", bless your heart, lol.
Bless his heart, he tried
I thought it was because there wsa no brain to bless^^ (that's how a texan guy explained the phrase to me in a summer camp^^)
@@Metalhammer1993 interesting. I’m also from Texas too lol but that’s how it was explained to me by my grandma
There's one particular use of "Well just bless your little ol' heart, honey!" that means step back away from the women if you know what's good for you: If you hear one woman say this to another - face to face. It means "F-you, I'm seriously considering clawing your eyes out right now."
we say: "He is not the brightest candle on the cake" (Germany)
It's the "the shortest sandwich in the picnic type.
Noch nie gehört, vielleicht hab ich den falschen Job.
Tbh, I wouldn't be offended by this😐
Ahh, I always said 'he's not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.' 🌲 🎅
Hab ich iwi niee gehört :O
Lucy, this one's for you, from a portuguese.
In Portugal, we would say jokingly "A Lucy não joga com o baralho todo" - Which in your language translates literally to "Lucy does not play with a full deck" (of cards) :D
I enjoy listening to your accent, will be picking up the pace on listenting to your videos.
I really appreciated your idioms along with the stories …I feel better now, I thought it was just me things like this would happen to 😂😂. Ok, first one. I was about 9, and my family and some friends had just visited a temple in Thailand. The temple was on a hill or overlook and there were hundreds of steps to get up to it. There were alternating steps and landings (which was bigger area than a single step). It went 5 steps, landing, 5 steps, landing, and so on all the way. We were on our way back down, and my older brother was jumping from landing to landing. It looked like great fun, but I wasn’t quite bold enough to try to jump 5 steps at a time. So I started hopping over one step, it wasn’t as much fun as it looked like when my brother did it, but I carried on anyway. My brother hopped past our mother on the steps, who was walking down with a friend. The friend watched my brother go past and said to my mother “aren’t you worried about him jumping around like that?” My mother replied “ Oh, no. If there’s anyone I have to worry about, it’s my daughter.” No sooner than the words came out of her mouth, I trip myself and go tumbling down the steps past them. Oh dear 😂😂
There's a Hungarian saying meaning similar: If dumbness hurt, you'd be screaming.
Dumbness does hurt. Have you watched Jackass?
In the US, saying "if dumb hurt, you'd be screaming" is pretty common.
OF COURSE!!!
In Germany we have literally the same saying :)
Ird le ezt Magyarul lègyszives
"When God was distributing brains , you were sleeping!"
(India)
" Did you forgot your brain in the fridge"
(Tamilnadu)
mota dimag 😂 in hindi
🤣
U THIS like her
There is a very similar phrase in Turkish: Were you hiding behind the door when ... (something like wit, intelegence etc.) was being distributed?
Very impressed with your brilliant telling stories about yourself to provide understandable, relatable illustrations of each phrase! We now need examples of phrases to describe a person of unusual intelligence and graciousness, such as yourself.
My personal favorite and regular go-to “you’re dumb” aphorism: “a little slow on the uptake”.
I can often be described this way during early morning meetings at work, when the caffeine hasn’t had a chance to fuel up my brain cells:
“Forgive me please, it’s still early and I’m a little slow on the uptake just now. Could you please repeat that for the fourth and hopefully final time?”
"You've got your head just to separate the ears."
-Thai
"Are you stupid or stupid?"
-Thai
omg we have it in italian too
Loooool in south italy it is basically the same:"tien a cap p spart e recchie"
😆
We have the same saying in Bulgaria:)
In Egypt, we say: "You're the smartest one of your siblings, eh?"
:DD That's a good one, dspecially if they're an only child.
Ouch !
That one stings, surely !
Oh my god that is truuuuue 😂
@@dirb9266 yess😂😂😂
بتقدر تكتبلي العبارة دي بالعربي لو سمحت؟
The structure of this video is so brilliant. It's not even the kind of thing that I generally watch, but it's so masterfully made.
My EX used to say that to our children (he was from New Jersey in the states do not know where he got it from) then refined it to sharp as a marble. When he started insulting them (for no apparent reason) in ways they understood and was no longer teasing, I started nailing him to the wall quickly every time. I was not going to put up with that MUCH BULLYING against MY children no matter who from. Eventually it became physical violence (lest you think I was overly sensitive) and then he burned the house down. After I went to a woman's shelter they and the police insisted I go before a judge who asked us both a couple of questions and upon realizing he kept from me he had a weapon in the house gave me a restraining order. Be careful about insults. Especially aimed at children over and over.
Things were passive-aggressive until we got to "Someone's village is missing their idiot". 🤣
*"epsilon 6 wants to know your location"*
@@garlicbreadstick404Haha!!
"Worlds first surviving brain donor."
If brains were dynamite...she couldn't blow her hat off
@GG As welcome as a fart in spacesuit.
Worlds second surviving brain donor you mean, i often joked that when the surgeons operated on me that they took the brain out & left the tumour in
Wow, that's a funny one! Thanks for that.
Oh that’s awesome
"There's not much between the ears" 🤣🤣🤣
That's really funny!
My Welsh granddad once told my father that while he can be a decent guy, he's thicker than 20 yards of lard sometimes. Cue me rolling out of my chair laughing.
The South: "Bless your heart"
Ouchh.
That's my favourite, the most nice passive aggressive insult ever.
My fave!🤣
Same as God bless you. Usually a passive aggressive way to insult someone and usually the person saying it is the stupid one. 🤣
😂😂
"If stupidity hurt, you would cry all day"
😂😂
😂😂
They do. Victim mentality.
This video is so british, that Lucy even refused to tell embarassing stories of someone else.
I really love your content.
I like the one that goes "the wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead"... If I remember correctly, it's a Stephen K Amos original.
From Portugal: if stupidity paid tax, there would be stamps all over you.
ooooh...that sounds great but might offend some
LOL Good one :D
Nunca ouvi essa ahahah como é em português mesmo?
😂😂😂
Savage
My favourite is "This could've been used to describe me actually".
Yaaaaa
Lucy....someone's village is missing their idiot
😚
Lovely, clever, creative and hardworking Lucy. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you!
1st time that I've randomly watched video from Lucy today, cause the title was so interesting. And after just 10min listening to her 7 hilarious stories, now I weirdly feel like being her best friend since high school kinda like "Eh, I knew all those stories already, cause I was there" 😂
Me being stupid:
**searches the entire house for a shirt I wanted to wear**
**realizes I'm already wearing it**
Cassidy Faith I’ve done that, aso searched the entire house AND had a minor nervous breakdown for my glasses and yes, you’re right, they were on the top of my head....☺️✌🏻✌🏻🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@scarletpimpernelagain9124.i knew someone who lost their glasses and they said that they couldn't look for them until they found them .
Same here I was sworn to death when I saw my mum's bracelet missing due to me playing with it ...( P.S. I AM NOT A SMALL KID) and found tied around my hair in a silly way ..... : )
JaynieB , in my case, I am so accustomed to my glasses that I turn the house upside down looking for them when I’m actually wearing them 🤣🤣🤣
The same thing happens with my glasses haha
I really appreciate the gentle self-irony
I have long admired the more verbose forms of the art of obtuse British insults. "He's in little danger of being accused of excessive intelligence" and the like (a lame example, but that sort of thing, preferably punctuated by a sniff). Very fun watch, Lucy. I look forward to exploring your library at greater length.
Hey Lucy, here are some idioms used in Austria....
"He has bad luck with thinking"
"He is intellectually challenged"
"He is cognitively sub optimized"
"He is teflon minded"
"He is knitted simple"
Haha these are awesome!
Few french fries short of a happy meal. Is used here in the states.
Oh and in severe cases people will say few chicken nuggets short of a happy meal.
Now those are good
An American saying is " . . . not the brightest crayon . . ."
My mum always used to say, “If brains were made of dynamite, there wouldn’t be enough to light a fuse.” 😂😂
Kids Draper Lol, mine would say, “If brains were dynamite you couldn’t blow your nose.”
Jess Draper Mother would say “if your brains were dynamite, the explosion wouldn’t blow your nose.”
Or...enough to blow your nose.
she means that we are stupid ?
sorry my english is not that good😅
I had a work supervisor who said, "bless your heart to me". I understand very well what it means,. The interesting thing is that this poor woman could not see my poor job performance resulted from her inept and misleading management.
Other American versions of the one sandwich short of a picnic:
The elevator doesn’t quite go all the day to the top…
One bulb short of a Christmas tree.
Also “not the sharpest knife in the drawer” is a suitable expansion of the tool-in-the-shed aphorism. 😉
"when God was distributing brains ,you were last at the queue"
Sarita Singh also or either you were holding an umbrella or in the toilet
"Yeah jab bhagwan akal baant rahe the tab tum kya ghaas charne gaye the '' I remembered my childhood cartoons
... : ) ; )
Laut ke budhu ghar ko aye
We say that in Hebrew as well.
It's used in my city too but with a slight difference
"When God was distributing brains, were u peeling Taro roots? "
In hindi it is👇
'Jab bhagwan akal baant raha tha tab kya ghuiya cheel rahe the"
😂😂😂😂
In the southern US, we use the phrase, "Bless your heart" as a veiled insult. It can mean genuine concern or pity, or a nice way to say someone is stupid
Same in northern England
"This could have been said about me actually." Lucy is indeed British. She loves to self-deprecate - a distinctive sense of humor, but this makes me find her so humble and fun to be with. Hello, Lucy!
My English teacher said in my report I give off an intellectual aroma, pity he doesn't back it up with homework.
Here in the States we say "Good thing she's pretty!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Sliding down through the comments, I see there are a number of American jests that are gentler than the British jibes. "Bless your heart" is another that avoids abject judgment but gets the point across.
In this case, yes, good thing she's pretty😆
You do know that when Americans from the southern states say bless your heart, they actually mean fuck you
@@OK-ul9kr Even more brutal: "Bless his LITTLE heart!"
And what if she's actually not?
Best description I’ve ever heard:
“If brains were dynamite, she couldn’t blow her nose!”
"Sharp as a bowling ball" is one of my favourites.
Lucy, love your humour of relating your personal stories to each phase. Brilliant!
"Not the sharpest knife in the drawer" is a very poplar saying.
It's also very popular! 😆
@@johnokamoto6762 😆
Or …knife in the block
In Poland we just say that someone is blunt xD
But we have sth similar to one sandwich short of a picnic that literally means "they're lacking the 5th woodblock".
For someone who just isn't all there: he/she is about half a bob off plumb.
In America we say “ he is one brick sort of a full load” or “common sense isn’t a flower that grows in their garden”
Good ones. There is also the gentler, "Well, bless his heart."
‘A sandwich short of a picnic”
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Shouldn't it be yard not garden?
@@B-A-L in the US, the yard is the entire property on which the house sits. It can refer to just the fenced portion behind the house , i.e. backyard. Within that yard, you can have a garden where you grow fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc.
"short"
A slight variation with the first one is "Not the sharpest knife in the box". Sometimes followed by "I've seen sharper spoons".
3:00 the "trap" thingy def caught me off guard 😂
"The wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead"
"He' not the brightest crayon in the box"
An old saying in the American South was “somebody forgot to salt the popcorn.”
I love your self deprecating humor. It makes you very pleasant to listen too.
This isn't really about the idioms or about polite ways to tell someone he's a half bubble off plumb, this is good cheer and fine gentle humor on display.
Good one!!! 😂
In Australia, we use them all. But my Dad used to say “if you had another brain, it would be lonely” especially when we had done something particularly silly
I'm prone to say " You must be at least two people, one person couldn't be that stupid."
😂
Lol
Hahaha fact
Your dad had it slightly wrong I think …..it should be ….if you had another brain cell it would be lonely….
"this could be used to describe me actually"
"this could be used to describe me actually"
"this could be used to describe me actually"
Jaydn Hilliard Blonde
I'm glad this was only 7 insult idioms... I was worried soon Lucy might reveal herself as a mass murderer or something even more awful...
EXACTLY!
Shoot me now
Lucy: Oh Will?
Will: Yea?
Lucy: They've been asking about my embarrassing stories for ages now...
Will: But you're a teaching channel...
Lucy: But what if....
*the day this video was conceptualized*
I am very impressed that you used yourself as examples of these insults. Very mature. Very modest. For this alone, I will subscribe. 🙂
Years ago I was with a friends family eating dinner. We had imitation crab meat as part of the meal. He was fond of this and made it his favorite part of many meals thereafter.
Fast forward a year later. The family is eating at a seafood place and crab was on the plate. The son looked up and in all sincerity asked, “how did they get the crab meat in the shells”. The entire group of 21 family members and I all had a good chuckle. He still didn’t have his answer. 😅
Bob - there is a Chinese saying that says Better ask a question and be a fool for 5 minutes, than not ask at all and be a fool forever.
One I liked on a performance report: "Works well under close supervision."
In the British Army this was “works well when watched”.
Works well under supervision does not apply to me. Rather it is the opposite. Having someone watch as I do something makes me nervous. While taking a course of small engine repair I had to dismantle and put back together a small engine. It was going fine until the teacher came over to watch me. I finished putting it together when I saw the float of the carburetor had been left out. As soon as I realized that, he said "You left out the float". I felt like a complete idiot.
Lol
1.He s not the sharpest tool in the shed
2.She's one sandwich short of a picnic
3. Not the full ticket
4.There is not much between the ears
5. The light is on but nobody's home
6. Someone's village is missing their idiots
7. As thick as a plank
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Ania K
One short of a sixpack.
Not quite the full shilling.
Away with the fairies.
Head in the clouds.
Living in cloud cuckoo land.
If dynamite were brains you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose.
When God was handing out brains (someone) was last in the queue.
Not quite the Brain of Britain
Not the brightest spark.
Nothing between the ears.
Empty headed.
Air head.
A couple of pebbles short of a beach
This ones moderately rude if you know what it means:it’s melt
My personal favourite: A few strawberries short of a cream tea.
British English sounds so nostalgic and so old fashioned darling.
This was really refreshing.... I know another Brit named Lucy who is an incredible vocalist. She is prim, proper, patient, and professional. Maybe she uses these idioms when out of public view or hearing range. She also has a beautiful British accent when she speaks, but it vanishes when singing. There is a wrong way and right way to get the last word. sometimes I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. And my elevator doesn't go all the way up to top floor.
I've heard most of those, or variations of them in Canada.
You say "one sandwich short of a picnic", I've heard "one beer short of a six-pack".
You say "not the full ticket", I've heard "not playing with a full deck".
I believe the Uhmerican saying is "three fries short of a happy meal".
We also use "not the sharpest tool in the shed".
Sometimes we also say "about as sharp as a marble/bowling ball".