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Sorry, Mac Manc McManx is just too, too Brit for me to understand.
Thanks, mates!
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Graft = grind, hard work
Chocca = short for 'chockablock' meaning filled up as far as it will go, packed to the gunwhales, loaded, full up
firtle = various meanings for this, some of them extremely rude, but used here in the sense of 'mess about', as in the Scottish word, 'futer'
mithered = nagged at, bothered, whinged at
mental = mental
and that = 'and all that', etc., English equivalent of 'n stuff'.
Monster trucks = large amounts, and slightly bizarre with it.
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A lot of that's from up north (Tall Guy territory). I don't believe anyone in England has ever said "That's a load of graft, mate, it's dead chocca". Maybe an English character in a US TV series.
American writers wouldn't have used a single on of those words to depict an Brit.
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Thanks, fellas.
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Brits are the weirdest English speakers of all.
That's the great thing about the english language, it's like jazz....you can sort of play around with it.
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Well I've used "hard Graft" (but hardly ever done it!), & "chocca block" (as in filled right up), but that sentence is as phoney as a nine bob note!
It's a bit pear-shaped!
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Well I've used "hard Graft" (but hardly ever done it!), & "chocca block" (as in filled right up), but that sentence is as phoney as a nine bob note!
It's a bit pear-shaped!
Thank you. I heard the phrase "it's gone all pear-shaped" in a modern BBC radio show, and nobody on the radio board knew what it meant or why it meant what it meant.
Can you fill in why it seems to mean "awkward or unruly or unacceptable"?
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Well it means "it's all gone tits up" or, to put it more sensitively, "it's all gone horribly wrong".
The burning question in my mind is "why?" Why does it mean that? Where did it come from?
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I always presumed it was a physiological reference about physiques i.e., lots of fat in the waistline ruining previous sleekness. Or a reference to balloons deflating?
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