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  • Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome back to another lesson with me Tom. Today we're looking at

  • ten very British verbs. But before we get into that I'd like to thank today's sponsor,

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  • very British verbs.

  • Number one, to fancy. We use the verb to fancy to mean to want, to desire to do something.

  • For example 'Do you fancy going to the cinema?' It just means do you want to go to the cinema?

  • At the moment it's snowing here in London so I might say 'I don't fancy going out.'

  • That means I don't want to go out, I have no desire to go out. So we can use to fancy

  • in informal situations to replace want. Often you'll see it in invitations for example 'Do

  • you fancy..?' 'Do you fancy to go to the cinema?' 'Do you fancy coming round for tea?' That

  • kind of thing. So yeah a really common useful verb. Fancy.

  • Number two and the is nothing more British than a good queue. We love queuing. It's out

  • national sport, queuing, we're the best at queuing in the world. I mean, I know there's

  • some competition but we are pretty good at queuing. So the verb, to queue. I would say

  • that's a pretty British verb. To queue. So it means to wait in an ordered line. For example

  • you queue at the supermarket, don't you. You might queue at the bus stop to get on to the

  • bus. So to queue, pronunciation queue. 'Sorry I'm late, I had to queue for ages at the bank.'

  • Let me know in the comments below, do you guys think that you are the world's best queuers?

  • Because you know, I think British people are the best at queuing so you let me know. We

  • might have to start an Olympics for queuing. See who get the gold, the silver and the bronze

  • medals. I think we'll get the gold but if you think differently tell me.

  • Number three is a very British slang verb. It's to nick something, to nick something.

  • To nick means to steal, it's exactly the same, it's a synonym of steal. So 'somebody has

  • nicked my phone!' Means somebody has stolen my phone. Number four 'to chat someone up.'

  • This is a phrasal verb, you can see chat is the verb and up the preposition there. So

  • to chat someone up is to talk to them in a flirtatious way, in a way where perhaps you

  • have romantic intentions. Something like that anyway. An example sentence 'Did you see Katie

  • getting chatted up by the barman?' Alright, so did you see Katie being talked to by the

  • barman who had flirtatious or romantic intentions. With this phrasal verb you'll notice that

  • it can be split with the object. So for example 'Are you going to go and chat up that guy?'

  • That guy is the object, it comes at the end after the phrasal verb. You can put that in

  • the middle as well 'Are you going to go and chat that guy up?' As with all these verbs

  • they are all informal words so think about when and how you are going to use them and

  • think about is the situation you are in appropriate to use these verbs.

  • Number five, slightly rude. To take the piss out of someone. This is to tease them, to

  • make jokes about them. It could be for many different reasons. It might be because of

  • somebody's hair or because they did something silly or stupid. It could be because their

  • football team lost, it could be many different reasons. To take the piss, it is slightly

  • rude, it's not a swear word or anything but it is a little bit rude so bear that in mind.

  • So I think I've told you guys before I have had many many many bad haircuts. So my friends

  • used to take the piss out of my hair. So they would make jokes about my hair, they would

  • laugh about it, yeah they would take the piss, it's fair enough. So an example sentence 'My

  • mates used to take the piss out of me for having bad hair.' I think I've fixed that

  • problem, I hope so.

  • Alright this one is awesome. It's more of a phrase really but it's still considered

  • a verb. to leg it. And this means to run quickly. Usually if you are escaping something. So

  • for example my favourite TV programme when I was a kid used to start just after my school

  • finished so I would leg it back from school so that I could watch the programme. So I

  • used to leg it back from school, that's to run really quickly from school to get somewhere

  • 'So I used to leg it back from school to watch this programme.'

  • Number seven might be one of my all time favourite words, to faff. Now to faff is to do things

  • that are not important. To do all the the little things that are, you just don't need

  • to do and not because they are the most important thing that you need to do right now. So for

  • example whenever we used to leave the house my Mum would just do little things. She'd

  • make sure the cushions were in the right place on the sofa or she'd quickly tidy the shoes

  • so that they were all in the right order. Just doing things and you are like Mum we

  • need to go, like that's not important right now. Stop faffing! So to faff is just to do

  • nothing really to do very unimportant stuff. It goes with the words about and around. So

  • you can say to someone 'Stop faffing about!' 'Stop faffing around!' Like, stop doing little

  • things that are not important. And just for the record I also do a lot of faffing so yeah

  • I'm a big faffer. What an amazing word. What's that in your language, translate that word

  • for me into your language, to faff. What's that in Arabic? What's that in Spanish? What's

  • that in Mandarin? Let me know.

  • Here's another phrasal verb 'to splash out'. We splash out on something. Now to splash

  • out is to spend a lot of money. So for example. So let's say you are going out for an anniversary

  • dinner with your partner and you go to an expensive restaurant. You say 'Look it's our

  • anniversary, we should splash out.' And that means you know, it's our anniversary why not

  • spend more money than normal. The opposite of to splash out is to flog something. Now

  • flog is a very informal verb, it means to sell something usually quite quickly or quite

  • cheaply. So for example 'I'm trying to flog my old car.' It means I'm trying to sell my

  • old car whether it's quickly or cheaply. So i'm trying to flog my old car. And our final

  • verb for today is to wind somebody up. This is to annoy them. If you wind someone up you

  • annoy them, you get them angry. I tell you what winds me up guys, it's when people try

  • to get on to the tube, on to the train before everyone gets off. That really winds me up.

  • It's like guys this doesn't make sense. Like let me off the train and then there's more

  • space for you to get on the train. That's logical right? But no no people want to get

  • on the train without thinking. That really winds me up. So, that's a great little verb

  • to know 'What winds you up guys?' Let me know. Tell me in the comments below. What winds

  • you up?

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  • you can think of any other British verbs then please share them with in the comments below

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10個非常英式的動詞 (10 Very British Verbs)

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