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17: Today we are talking about phrases that British people commonly use in everyday conversations

24: and this was a video idea that was suggested to me by someone in the comments, I can't remember who

29: it was but thank you very much if you commented for this video, here it is! So, I had a little

36: think about the kinds of phrases that I hear a lot in everyday conversations. I live in Britain, I've

42: lived in Britain all my life and these are some of the things that I hear a lot, so if you want to

48: sound like a native British speaker, if you are planning to move to Britain or if you are just

54: interested in how people in Britain talk, this is for you. Little disclaimer, obviously Britain

60: is a very big place, I live in the West Midlands, which is a place in Britain but obviously if you

67: go to Wales, if you go to Scotland, if you go to Northern Ireland, if you go to Cornwall, if you go

72: to Manchester, you will hear different phrases and different slang words, these are just some

79: common ones that I think a lot of people, no matter what part of the UK you're from,

84: I think a lot of people will use these, but obviously the UK is a big place, okay? So

90: you are about to hear a little conversation between me and Bez and in that conversation,

95: we are going to use a lot of common phrases. After you've seen that I will quickly talk

101: them through with you so that you understand how to use each and every one. Okay, let's go.

203: Those three years of actor training that me and Bez had have not been wasted. Okay, so let's start

209: with the very first thing you heard and that was alright, alright? This is a very common greeting

215: in Britain, it means hello, it means how are you, it means oh look it's you! I haven't seen you in

221: a while! It means lots of different things, it doesn't always mean 'are you alright?' It

228: doesn't need an answer, if I say to you: alright? Normally the common response is: yeah, alright!

236: It just means hello, it's really weird. Okay and the next common phrase you heard was long time no

242: see, we say this if it's been a long time and you haven't seen someone and we just say it like that,

248: you don't need to put any words around it, it's just long time no see. Then we had: I'm sound,

254: which is another way of saying I'm good, I'm happy, all is well in my life, I'm sound. We

260: also heard: can't complain, which means things are fine, you know? I can't complain about my life

266: because there's nothing to complain about. Then you heard: in a bit, we can order food in a bit,

272: it just means in a little bit of time, I'll see you in a bit, see you in a bit, I'll see

277: you in a little bit of time is all that means. Then, you heard: to be honest, this is a really,

282: really common phrase, it's just something we might put at the beginning of a sentence or at the end

287: of a sentence just to exaggerate the fact that you are being honest, you're saying something true,

294: so in this context: I'm not too hungry, to be honest. You know? If I'm being honest with you,

299: I'm not actually that hungry, people use this one a lot. Then we had: probs,

304: which I use, I don't know how many other people use it, but I definitely use probs, um, instead of

311: probably, sometimes, I don't always use it. It's a bit of a young person, kind of slang,

318: so use it if you want to but it's not an overly used thing, it's just something that I say so

325: I thought I'd put it in. Then you heard: good shout which just means good idea, good shout,

330: yeah, good shout, that's a good idea! Then we had: a weight off my mind, if something is a weight off

336: your mind or a weight off your shoulders, some people might say that, um, it just means that the

342: worry has gone, you know? The worry, the stress that you have had has gone, you know? The weight

350: has been lifted, so you might hear people say it's a weight off my mind, it's a weight off my

354: shoulders or they might just say it's a weight off, you know? Oh we sold the house, so that's

360: a weight off. Then: we had pain in the ass, if something is a pain in the ass, it's annoying,

367: it's stressful, it's just not something you want to do, it's, it's, oh it's irritating,

373: it makes you angry, it's just, oh, frustrating, a pain in the ass. Or, if you want to be family

379: friendly, you can say a pain in the neck, because arse is kind of a little bit of a swear word,

385: it's not a very big swear word, it's like a tiny one. I think I watched Home Alone the other day

394: and Home Alone is a kids film and in that they say 'ass', which is the American version of arse,

400: so it's not a huge swear word but it's a little bit of one, so if you don't want to do that teeny

405: little swear word, I would just say pain in the neck. Okay, then we had: light at the end

409: of the tunnel, if you see a light at the end of the tunnel, you see the end, you see the good

417: result of something, you are nearly finished with something that's hard or stressful or scary,

423: you're nearly done and you can see the ending, it's so close, I'm nearly there! Then we had:

428: faff, I love this word, faff is a great word, it just means something that is hard, it's something

435: that requires a lot of effort, a lot of time, it's a faff, moving is a faff, it's stressful,

441: it takes a lot of time, it's hard, it's annoying, it's stressful. Faff. Without a doubt is another

448: really common phrase I hear all the time, it just means, you know, without a doubt,

453: I don't have any doubt, there's no doubt in my mind that this is true. Then, I included:

459: tell me about it and this is a bit more American, actually, you know, like tell me about it, it's a

465: bit more American and it just means like, I agree with you, oh I completely agree with you, tell

470: me about it. But I think, you know, as American movies and American tv shows become more popular

476: over here, I think a lot of people in Britain do say it, it's something you do hear over here,

481: so I thought I'd put it in, so tell me about it just means I completely agree with you. It's just

486: one thing after another, this means that lots of stressful, hard, negative things are happening.

496: It doesn't stop! Then we've got: all being well, which just means, all being well, if everything

503: goes well, this will happen, so all being well, I will have a new job in 2022 or all being well,

514: we will take our dog home from the vet tomorrow, so as long as everything goes well, as long as

519: everything is okay and goes to plan, this will happen. Then we had: to switch off, if you switch

525: off from life, switch off from house moving stuff, switch off from work, it just means you completely

533: take your brain away, you completely stop thinking about it, you distance yourself from it,

539: you don't think about it anymore, it's gone. Then we have the word: nightmare,

543: something is a nightmare, this is something that we say a lot over here, oh it's a nightmare, oh

550: moving house was a nightmare, it just means it was horrible, like a nightmare, it was terrible,

555: oh it's just, it's just a nightmare looking after seven cats and two dogs, it's horrible.

561: Then we had: when it rains, it pours which just means when bad things happen, it really happens,

567: you know? When you have some bad situations in life, it feels like it really happens, it's really

576: bad, it's not just a little bit of bad, it's like, oh that's terrible! When it rains, it pours. Mate

585: is super common in Britain, we use it to refer to someone, oh you alright, mate? How you doing,

591: mate? Or we might use it, like in this sense, as a sympathetic word, so we might say, oh mate,

598: mate I'm so sorry, oh mate, I'm really sorry. Then we had: bound to be something good around

604: the corner, though. So if something is bound to be, it's like surely, surely that's going

610: to happen in the future, surely, it's bound to happen, it's gonna happen, definitely,

614: surely. Around the corner, if something is around the corner, it's in the near future.

620: So if you imagine you're walking, just around the corner there's going to be something really good.

625: Then we had: we can only hope, which is a phrase you would use if you don't have a lot of hope,

632: really, you know? You don't think something is going to happen in the future, you might say oh

636: we can only hope, you know, I don't think it's going to happen, but I can at least hope! Then we

641: had the word moping, if you mope it just means you feel a bit sad for yourself, you complain a lot,

648: you're just a bit: my life so hard, I'm moping. And finally, we had: just the usual, you know,

654: if someone says to you: how's life? What are you doing at the moment? They might say: ah, just the

660: usual, like just the same, everything's normal, my life's the same as it usually is. And there

665: we have it! If you have any questions about those phrases, leave them in the comments down below,

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