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OP Originally Posted By: ollySome of the terms I pulled that I thought were very common
burgled = robbed
bloke = guy/man
mate = friend
head's in bits = distressed
fags and that = smokes n stuff
watch the gaff for us = watch the house (context)
Grolsch = brand of beer (mmm beer)
couple of quid = couple of bucks/pounds
fair enough = sweet as/seems reasonable
All in all, trying to not sound conceited, I'd of thought it was quite clear what was going on. Or, am I missing the point?
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I think most of us got all that except some of us had never encountered "gaff" before. We even have Grolsch beer on this side of the pond. "Fags" on the other hand, means something entirely different in the U.S.
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