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  • Yes, it's the dreamers.

  • Welcome back to another lesson with me, Tom.

  • Today we're looking at the top 10 most creative British insults so that if you want to call someone stupid or say that they're ugly in a really imaginative way, this is video for you.

  • Let's get the O Number 10.

  • No oil painting, no oil painting.

  • This is a great way to say that someone is ugly.

  • Okay, because oil paintings, they're quite beautiful, right?

  • But if you're saying someone is not an oil painting, then they're not beautiful.

  • So there must be ugly.

  • Let's be honest, You Rex was nice by she was no oil painting, was she?

  • How that's things that huts.

  • But there's more.

  • One of my favorites to have a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp toe have a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp Again, this means that someone is ugly, right?

  • Imagine a bulldog trying to to watch.

  • It's not very beautiful, right?

  • Don't get me wrong, right?

  • You're a good looking guy.

  • But in the morning, sometimes your face doesn't like a bulldog chewing a wasp.

  • Just saying if you said that to someone, they'd be pretty insulted okay.

  • It's not terribly, terribly regenerate using any swear words, but it's a very creative way to say that someone is ugly.

  • Now there are variations off this.

  • You could say you have a face like the back end of a bus.

  • That's another nice one.

  • You have a face like the back end of a bus.

  • You don't.

  • I'm not saying that you do your your beautiful don't get me wrong.

  • But you could say to someone else Another variation is you have a face like a slapped arse.

  • You have a face like a slapped us.

  • Use those with caution.

  • Now all 10 of these insults come from my brand new book.

  • It's a guy to British English, and it's gonna be out really, really soon as soon as it's out.

  • In fact, I'm gonna put a link in the description below, so keep your eyes open.

  • Okay, the next one.

  • A big girls blouse.

  • Now what's the meaning?

  • Well, it will be directed towards a man who you think is weak on cowardly and maybe doesn't have a high threshold for pain.

  • Now, in this day and age, there are questions about Is this an acceptable phrase to use.

  • Is it sexist because it's a phrases linking weakness and cowardice with a female actor of clothing?

  • And so perhaps it's time for us to stop using the phrase.

  • So now I'm really intrigued to know what you guys think about his phrase.

  • Is this just a fun, playful phrases quite creative, or is it a phrase that, perhaps, is a little bit sexist on a little bit old fashioned?

  • Is it a phrase that perhaps we should stop using?

  • So I would love your opinions on this?

  • Let me know in the comments below.

  • Okay, so there's always said it's maybe it's a winter's morning.

  • It's really cold on your I want to go and play football and you make this common tub, you big girl's blouse.

  • This place of football, I guess a synonym would be wimp a wimp.

  • So perhaps just used the word wimp.

  • If you don't fuck up for using this word two sandwiches short of a picnic, that means that someone is a little bit crazy.

  • They're not altogether with it in their mind.

  • Now I love this phrase in the sense that is very cultural, right, because sandwiches, that's the food that we We love sandwiches and we go for picnics.

  • That's a very British thing.

  • So if you are two sandwiches short of a picnic, it's not all there, right?

  • It's incomplete on.

  • Maybe the person is a little bit crazy now.

  • I'd love to know in your language, what would that be?

  • It might not be two sandwiches short of a picnic.

  • It might be to other things, every food items that are more common in your culture.

  • So let me know the comments below instead of two sandwiches short of a picnic.

  • What would you say?

  • Great.

  • I swear.

  • My boss is two sandwiches short of a picnic.

  • Now a similar phrase to this is not the sharpest tool in the box.

  • This means that someone's a little bit done a bit stupid.

  • Okay, so maybe someone's just joined your company on dure, all talking about them and you like, what do you think of what you think, Larry?

  • Blurry.

  • He's not the sharpest toe boxes.

  • He kind of mean, but also kind of funny and creative.

  • So way we have two for one.

  • Okay, there was talking here about England.

  • Specifically, it's divided into the North and the south roughly.

  • There is a line somewhere near Birmingham on everything north of that is the north of England, and everything south of that is the south of England.

  • Now each has an insult for the other.

  • So in the south of England, people call the people of the north of England northern monkeys in the north.

  • They call the people from the south southern softies.

  • Now both our offensive.

  • I'm not telling you to use them.

  • I'm just raising your awareness.

  • Okay?

  • So please don't go out there.

  • Start calling someone a seven soft your northern monkey.

  • You might offend someone, but they're phrases that exist, right?

  • I guess the link here is that Northern Monkey people think maybe people are stupid and then in the South.

  • And then people from the north of England think that people have myself of its soft a bit weak, a bit wimpy in some respects, dead from the neck up dead from the neck up.

  • I think you can imagine what this means.

  • Stupid, right?

  • Dead from the neck up.

  • So your brain, there's nothing there.

  • It's not nothing going on.

  • May I swear?

  • That guy in the canteen dead from the neck up.

  • Honestly?

  • No.

  • Nothing dull as dishwater or dull as ditch water.

  • Depending on what you say I uses a dishwater Basically means really boring If someone's really boring and say Wow, he is dollars dishwater like he is so boring.

  • What you think about your boyfriend?

  • Yeah, he's done a dishwater.

  • May police so boring.

  • Oh, my God.

  • Yeah, well, yeah.

  • Coming.

  • We just yet get back.

  • Coming mad as a box of frogs.

  • Mad as a box of frogs.

  • You can imagine a box with lots of frogs in.

  • They're going everywhere.

  • They're jumping everywhere.

  • They're kind of crazy.

  • Kind of what it means, right?

  • Mad as a box of frogs.

  • My old art teacher was mad as a box of frogs.

  • You, all of you.

  • You're as mad as a box of frogs.

  • I have had it with you.

  • Unbelievable.

  • Now what would that be in your language?

  • Let me know.

  • Is it mad as a different animal?

  • You tell me.

  • This is to insult a place.

  • You would say it's the armpit off somewhere.

  • So, for example, I might say Norwich is the armpit of England, actually burning, resilient, paving that.

  • But anyway, like It's the worst part of England.

  • It's if you think about armpit under here.

  • It's pretty gross, isn't it?

  • Like it's the part that you look at the least you want to think about the least.

  • You smells bad.

  • You get the idea, right?

  • So nourishes the armpit of England.

  • Now, I'm not saying that for real.

  • Yeah, he is saying actually nurtures a lovely place.

  • Please go visit there.

  • But it's an example.

  • Okay.

  • No, it is the armpit off England.

  • You could use it for anything there, Right?

  • You could say the United States of the armpit of the world.

  • Just example.

  • It's not my opinion.

  • Okay?

  • So you could have lots of creative ways to play with that right to the armpit, off somewhere.

  • So it could be a city.

  • Could be an area.

  • Could be ah, country could be the world whenever it might be the armpit off something.

  • 10 fantastically creative ways to insult someone.

  • Now, please be careful with these phrases.

  • Don't go around being offensive.

  • Used them with people who would understand and not get offended by you.

  • Okay, Now, please go out and insult.

  • All right, guys, Thank you so much for watching.

  • Remember, I've got a book coming out really soon.

  • It's a guy to British English.

  • These phrases will be in there along with so many more.

  • I can't wait to show it to you guys.

  • When it's out, the link will be below this video.

  • All right, guys, Thank you so much.

  • This is Tom, the chief dreamer, saying goodbye.

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