Most speakers of AMERICAN English probably do not know what the following mean: to adopt a candidate, action replay, actressy, Adam and Eve, to add one’s two penn’orth, a dinnieken or Adam and ant. The British author who name I never got had been right. The British and Americans are two people who are divided by a common language, English. (200 plus pages)
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If you adopt a candidate, you do not take him or her home. To adopt a candidate is to nominate him or her. If someone is described as actressy, that person is not being complimented. To be or behave actressy is to act like a phony or to grandstand. To add one’s two penn’orth is, in American English, to add one’s two cents. If someone tells you that a dinnieken, they are telling you that I don’t know. Than there is the rhyming Cockney slang. Adam and Eve means, in American English, to believe. Adam and ants has two meaning; depending on the context it can mean either plants or pants. The dictionary, A Septic Tank* Translates British English contain some of the most common and well-known expressions in BRITISH English. Because vulgar expressions and synonyms have been included, this dictionary should be bought by persons over 18.
*Septic Tank is Rhyming Cockney Slang for Yank (An American)
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