British Phrases

•  A little bird told me

• A turn up for the books

• A fly in the ointment

• A nod is as good as a wink

• How do you do?

• Spend a penny

• A fish out of water

• Pardon my French

• Hanky-panky

• Codswallop

• Cost a bomb

• Dog's dinner

• Give me a tinkle on the blower

• Making random words past-tense to mean drunk - "I was absolutely car-parked last night."

• Over-egg the pudding

• On the pull

• Poppycock

• Quids in

• Shirty

• Take the biscuit

• Wind your neck in

• Zonked