Expressions British people love

Hi everyone,

I would like to share something that I started to realise after these 4 months living in U.K. It makes me laugh a lot because it is so part of the culture that most of the times it sounds a little bit "too much".

Here is a list of the most frequent ones:

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Boom

It's for those moments you are telling a story and it ends up in an expected way but with some dramatization behind it. For example, like a guy has been seeing with this girl all over, chatting all the time, having lunch together until they.. BOOM...she gets pregnant.

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Happy Days

I love this one! Jamie Oliver in his cooking tv shows says it all the time after tasting it. He usually says "Mmmm...happy days!". Sounds silly and cute!

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...to be honest

British are famous for being polite all the time. So they use this expression to find a safe window to share their thoughts. The thing is that they use it a lot! It sounds like they are not honest the rest of the time they are speaking. 

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...absolutely...

Another expression that sounds too much due to the fact they use it a lot. If anyone ask their opinion they always gonna say: It's absolutely lovely! Or if they feel sorry: I'm absolutely embarrassed... and you pretty much can fit in the expression anythere! It's absolutely funny!

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... to be fair

This is an option to be honest without using the expression mentioned previously.

You can use it when you are about to confess something like: I didn't get a good grade this semester, but I didn't study much to be fair.

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Cheers, mate

This was very surprising for me because I thought you only would use cheers, before start drinking. But they use  as a substitute to thank and to say goodbye. It took a while to get used to it and I still feel weird when I say it.

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