Auntie
~The affectionate nickname for the BBC, synonomous with 'The Beeb'
Barmy
~Off ones rocker
Chalk and Cheese
~Worlds apart, night and day
Draw the Long Bow
~I'm not kidding
Elevenses
~Also called elevens and elevensies, a morning coffee break
(coffe and a biscuit)
French Toast
~A delicious morsel of bread buttered on one side and toasted on the other
Great Bear
~The Big Dipper
Hot ice
~Dry ice
In (someones) bad books
~In Dutch with someone
Janeite
~Sometimes spelled 'Janite.' Not an American word, since Jane Austen is not a national craze
Keep A Straight Bat
~Play fair. Borrowed from cricket, synonomous with fair play
Luke's Little Summer
~Indian Summer
Mark Tapley
~A Pollyanna. See Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens
Night on the Tiles
~A night on the town
On The Day
~When the time comes
Ploughmans Lunch
~A large piece of French bread, an enourmous slab of Cheddar cheese, a vast chunk of butter, and a couple of sour pickled onions. A favorite at pubs.
Quarrel With Ones Bread and Butter
~Bite the hand that feeds one
Reach Me Down
~Ready made (as in clothing)
Set Tea
~Afternoon tea, with little sandwiches and cakes, obtainable at hotels and restaurants
Tiffin
~A light meal, lunch
Up For the Cup
~In town for the big occasion
Vacancies
~Help Wanted
Wet Fish
~Fresh fish
Yeoman
~A small farmer who cultivates his own land
Zebra
~Pedestrian Crossing, a passage on the road, marked with zebra-like stripes. Once a pedestrian sets foot on a zebra, traffic must stop to let him cross
50 Reasons To Love England
(but there are so many more, indeed!)
1. The accents
2. The history
3. The adorable men (yes, there are attractive men in Britain)
4. The BBC (what would we do without them?)
5. The literature (Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Hardy, Shakespeare, etc)
6. Hobb Nobbs
7. Fish and chips
8. The Royals
9. Britcoms
10. London
11. Wheetabix
12. The beautiful countryside
13. Tea and scones
14. The names of the cities and counties
15. The Victorian Era
16. The Regency Era
17. Ancestry
18. Princess Diana
18. Elizabeth 1
19. The castles
20. The moors
21. The way sentences are phrased
22. Driving on the wrong side of the road
23. Bath
24. The West End
25. Stonehenge
26. White Cliffs of Dover
27. The humour
28. Hyde Park
29. Double Decker buses
30. St Paul's Cathedral
31. Westminster Abbey (take the tour, its great!)
32. The Thames
33. City of Windsor/Windsor Castle
34. Hampton Court (make sure you hear the clock ring while your there)
35. Jane Austen's House
36. The Bronte Parsonage/Haworth
37. The Queen's Horses (you can actually see them as you drive on the road)
38.The Underground (takes us Brit-lovers all around town, quick & easy ;)
39. Cafe Diana (yummy food and a great price, too)
40. The London Eye (30 minutes over London)
41. B&B's (if you don't know what this is, you're not a true anglophile ;)
42. The British Library
43. Bangers & Mash
44. Thomas More
45. Kensington Palace
46. The Tower of London
47. Changing the Guard
48. Parliament; House of Lords, House of Commons
49. Big Ben
50. Full English Breakfast (yum!)
