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I'm an American and the only term I wasn't familiar with is hit me for six. Was in Scotland a few weeks once and if I ever heard one of the words on that list, I didn't notice.
Some words arent used by the young people here as much as back when I was young in the 50s, but still said by older folk..
"Hit me for six" comes, I think, from the game of cricket. If you hit the ball for six it means you hit the ball over the boundary line (without it bouncing first). You score six runs for it.
That is more typically called goosepimples or gooseflesh.
We call them goose pimples in this part of the US. But GooseBumps is the name of a series of kids' books so it's used somewhere.
I would never have known that 6 thing --and no wonder, I never played cricket and could watch a match and still not understand it. At all.
But we can get a home run. We can go the whole nine yards too. If I ever watched sports I could think of a lot more--you don't learn many unique words and phrases by watching the news on tv.
Indeed! I had a bit of a surprise once, whilst on an Amtrak train. An announcement came over the speaker system asking "Is anyone missing a fanny pack?". That one woke me up a bit!
I did a bit of asking around to find out what it could possibly be. I found out that it was (what we call the slighty less rude name for) a bum bag.
Indeed! I had a bit of a surprise once, whilst on an Amtrak train. An announcement came over the speaker system asking "Is anyone missing a fanny pack?". That one woke me up a bit!
I did a bit of asking around to find out what it could possibly be. I found out that it was (what we call the slighty less rude name for) a bum bag.
That's a phrase that's only "slightly less rude" in the UK. In the US, it would just be considered weird.
When in Rome, do as the Romans! There's nothing wrong with the word "fanny" in the US, so you can say it to your heart's content, knowing that in the US "fanny" is just a sweet, old fashioned, gentle word for a person's rear end. Something a granny might say in fact.
We call them goose pimples in this part of the US. But GooseBumps is the name of a series of kids' books so it's used somewhere.
I would never have known that 6 thing --and no wonder, I never played cricket and could watch a match and still not understand it. At all.
But we can get a home run. We can go the whole nine yards too. If I ever watched sports I could think of a lot more--you don't learn many unique words and phrases by watching the news on tv.
I say goose bumps rather than goose pimples, simply because it ticks off my wife when I say it, and I just love to "wind her up."
Living in the U.K., I am aware of the hit for six association with hitting a cricket ball over the boundary without bouncing, rather like a home run in baseball.
You state that you could watch a cricket match and still not understand it, I am of a similar opinion, except I couldn't watch a match, my eyes glaze over just to hear the word cricket, and I've no idea how anyone can understand it.
I found myself in the Tropicana stadium, Clearwater FL. once, watching the Tampa Bay Devil Rays playing the Boston Redsox at baseball, I loved it, how anyone could favour cricket over baseball is beyond me.
I know that the 'whole nine yards' means all, or everything, but I don't know its origin, I just presume it's from American football, or baseball.
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