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Meaningless English Phrases

dSTAR · 2005-07-20 04:06:10

Oscar Wilde once observed: The English are wise in their foolishness and the Irish are foolish in their wisdom Forget about paddywhackery, lets have some classic English phrases or slang that are completely stupid and meaningless. Londoner: Here comes the bus, innit! or Peter: Its starting to rain! Jane: Quite You know…

20-07-2005 5:06am

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dSTAR

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Oscar Wilde once observed:
The English are wise in their foolishness and the Irish are foolish in their wisdom

Forget about paddywhackery, lets have some classic English phrases or slang that are completely stupid and meaningless.

Londoner: Here comes the bus, innit!

or

Peter: Its starting to rain!

Jane: Quite

You know what I mean. Reel 'em out...

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#2 20-07-2005 5:09am

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shame you're not a phrase...

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#3 20-07-2005 9:54am

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All phases mean something its just not necessarily obvious what.

Mike.

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#4 20-07-2005 10:41am

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:rolleyes:

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#5 20-07-2005 1:33pm

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mike65 wrote:

All phases mean something its just not necessarily obvious what.

Innit?

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#6 27-07-2005 11:52pm

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quite.

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#7 01-08-2005 6:14pm

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dSTAR wrote:

Innit?

Isn't it?

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#8 01-08-2005 6:18pm

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"To be honest" and "By the way" are quite useless little phrases. They are used a lot by people and to be honest can nearly always be left out.

By the way don't point out the obvious!

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