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hi everyone welcome back to english with
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Lucy I've got a short little video for
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you today it's been highly requested
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it's all about british slang
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so today I'm going to talk to you about
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five slang words and phrases that we use
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here in England the first slang word is
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the tube and any of you that have
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visited London will know this quite well
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the tube for us is the underground but
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we would never call it a metro or the
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underground we normally call it the tune
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and that's because it's in the shape of
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a tube so if you visit London make sure
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you ask for the nearest tube station now
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people will understand you if you say
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metro station or underground station but
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if you want to sound like a native the
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tube
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ok the next word is local so if I say
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I'm just popping down to my local what
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would I be saying what do I mean well I
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mean I'm popping down just quickly
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visiting my local pub now a big part of
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British culture is going to the pub so
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it's very fitting that we have a slang
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word for it
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the local and this is s slang word that I use
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quite a lot I'd say oh yes we just met
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in my local and everyone knows i'm
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referring to my local pub the next word
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is thrash and this is a verb to thrash
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now what would I be saying if I said I
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absolutely thrashed him
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well we would be saying I beat him not
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in a physical sense it means in a game
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it means I won over someone so say I was
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playing cards with my dad and i won by a
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long way i would say yeah I absolutely
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thrashed him the next british slang word
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is iffy
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so if i say ooh no that sounds a bit
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iffy
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what would I be saying iffy refers to
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something incorrect or not quite right
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so if my mom says to me Lucy I've just
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received an email and a really rich
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Prince wants to give me 200 million
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pounds i would say ooh mum that sounds
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iffy
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I don't think that's quite right and
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the final word skint skint so if i said i
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bought all this new camera equipment and now
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i'm totally skint
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what would I be saying it means i have
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no money or i think americans would say
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broke in this case but for us we would say
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skint if someone invites me out but I
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can't go because I've not enough money i
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just say nah I'm skint
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ok those were my five british slang
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words and phrases i hope you enjoyed
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them
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comment below if you know any more I'm
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always interested to hear the weird and
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wonderful slang phrases that you hear on
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your travels
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some of them i don't even use myself so
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it's very entertaining to read those and
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want to improve your British English
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pronunciation why not join in my free
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