🎥 | hannah waddingham explaining british slang

She is living every moment of her fame these days, and thoroughly deserves it. She worked hard for years to become an overnight success. Good luck to her.

No room to swing a cat is an old naval term. No room to swing a cat-o’ nine-tails (whip).

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Total goddess goddessing

She went all Julian and Sandy at the end 🤣

@AC_610 Also, it’s “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”.

Cant swing a cat is a naval term referring to a cat of nine tails used to flog people

Love her. In an alternative Universe, who knows 😊

I can't wait until she explains what a 'brass' is.

Actually not enough room to swing a cat is not the feline related but refers to a cat of nine tails. It's a whip used on ships 🚢, typically with 9 leather strips to beat bad sailors. Taking the Mickey is missing his surname, Bliss.

Polari is gay language ask Sandy & Jules 😘💋💅🏻

Rightly or wrongly, we could do about half an hour or more of this. It's only when seeing them explained that I feel self-conscious for using it so much. But it also varies from region to region.

Not enough room to swing a cat is in reference to a cat whip.

How can anyone not know these phrases?

Yes, I like her-always good for a romp

“Not enough room to swing a cat” originates from a naval expression for a confined space; the “cat” being a cat-o’-nine-tails, a whip with 9 lashes used for punishment.

Hhmmm... - The first two examples certainly (I could take no more) are NOT slang but English language idioms. :-) idiom 1. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light ).

Who is Hannah Waddington?

These are American sayings too

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slang for people who cried when lizzie died

I don't know why I just said that 😕

@AC_610 Who is this thick-as-pigshit interviewer?

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She is an intimidating goddess.