Feb 26, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: mate I witnessed a rather entertaining scene yesterday afternoon outside a tube station in north London. The wallet of a middle-aged man somehow managed to drop out of his back pocket as he was leaving the station, and a younger – foreign – man saw this, picked it up and tried to get the attention of […]
Feb 23, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: drone Up until a few years ago, the word drone was most commonly used as a verb. If someone droned on and on, they talked about something in a boring way for a long time, so you might get stuck next to someone at a party who spent the whole evening droning on about work . […]
Feb 18, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: Cheers Following on from our previous post on the phrase bon appetit, it’s perhaps a reflection of the priorities here in the UK that it’s far easier to come up with a single English word for what we say before we drink – Cheers! Typically, when you and the people you’re drinking with have new, full […]
Feb 12, 2018 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: bon appetit You probably don’t need me to tell you that food culture here in England is (and yes, I am using the classic English art of understatement here!) slightly different to much of the rest of the world. We seem to have developed a reputation for being a bit backwards when it comes to cuisine. As […]
Feb 2, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: wide boy Every big city contains certain kinds of characters who come to represent some deep and fundamental truth about the place. They capture some timeless essence of their being. One of the most enduring social types familar to anyone who’s spent much time in London is the wide boy.Wide boys are working-class, exclusively male, and survive […]
