From "chockablock" to a "full Monty," the Brits have a wide range of interesting slang words ... want to relate with British clients or customers. Here are 60 British phrases that will confuse ...

Some English expressions are so peculiar that it’s nearly impossible to trace their origins without knowing the history behind them.

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(Photo: Canva) In Chicano slang and Mexican expressions, carnal (singular) or carnales (plural) is a term of deep camaraderie ...

A deaf woman has taken to the internet to show the hearing community how the British Sign Language (BSL) translates slang ...

British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the language of the mother country. The BBC once asked ...

Yard, which means one billion in financial slang, is used to avoid confusion with similar sounding words such as million ... It is thought to be derived from the British term "milliard." ...

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by the slang's first documentation predating the widespread use of the phrase "by our lady." Nowadays, "bloody" is used widely — it's even used in children's films such as "Harry Potter" — and is ...

Brits have an interesting vernacular that includes words and phrases that might confuse ... but a "bog" is another word for a toilet in British slang, adding to the connotations that something ...