B Flashcards
Balls-up
Definition: A messed up situation
How to use it: “The VMAs were a total balls-up.”
On the piss
Definition: Drinking heavily; going out for the purpose of drinking heavily
How to use it: “LiLo admitted she went on the piss pre-rehab.”
Gobby
Definition: Being a loud mouth and/or offensive
How to use it: “Bill Maher can be kind of gobby.”
Todger
Definition: Penis
How to use it: “Did you see Alexander Skarsgard’s todger on True Blood?!”
Arse
Definition: A rear end
How to use it: “Chris Brown is a total arse.”
Bollocks
Definition: Testicles or something useless or of poor quality
How to use it: “Ben Affleck being cast as Batman is a load of bollocks!”
Legless
Description: Extremely drunk
How to use it: “Did you hear that David Cassidy was arrested for a DUI? Apparently he was legless.”
Knackered
Definition: Exhausted
How to use it: “I was knackered after a weekend at Coachella.”
Miffed
Definition: Upset or offended
How to use it: “It was so stupid when Taylor Swift was miffed at Amy Poehler and Tina Fey making fun of her.”
Plonk
Definition: A disparaging term for cheap wine, especially cheap red wine.
How to use it: “Girls, a new episode of the Bachelorette is on tonight. I’ll print out the rules of the drinking game, you bring the plonk.”
Rumpy pumpy
Definition: Sexual intercourse
How to use it: “I hear it’s possible Mindy Kaling and James Franco may have a little rumpy pumpy on The Mindy Project this season.”
Fall arse over tit
Definition: To fall head over heels
How to use it: “I’ll never forget when Jennifer Lawrence fell arse over tit at the Oscars.”
wazzock
Definition: An idiot
How to use it: “Ryan Lochte is such a wazzock.”
Fit
Definition: Sexually attractive
How to use it: “Ryan Gosling is fit.”
Collywobbles
Definition: An upset stomach or feeling of acute nervousness
How To Use It: “Before I met Harry Styles I got a serious case of the collywobbles.”
Minted
Definition: To be wealthy
How to use it: “Bieber can buy whatever car he wants. He’s minted.”
Tosh
Definition: Nonsense
How to use it: “People being angry about Miley at the VMAs is such tosh.”
‘Every cloud has a silver lining’
There’s always something good in bad times.
‘A stitch in time saves nine’
Act early and you can save a lot of time.
‘Nothing ventured nothing gained’
You have to try or you won’t get anything.
‘Out of the frying pan into the fire’
From one problem to another. By one’s effort to get out of a very bad situation, one managed to get into an even worse one.
‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison’
People often don’t like the same things.
‘Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’
Don’t question good luck.
‘You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink’
You can give a person a chance, but you can’t make him or her take it.
