Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Amy Winehouse and Jason Statham teach you British slang vocabulary in this English lesson!
Most common English slang terms (Including Cockney!):
- "You're fit" means "You're attractive"
- "That's bollocks" means "I don't believe you"
- "I ain't got the foggiest" means "I don't know/understand at all"
- "I'm shattered" means "I'm extremely tired"
- "I can't be bothered" means "I don't want to do this / I don't have the energy to do this"
- "Legless" means "very drunk"
- "Get a wriggle on!" means "Hurry up!"
- Sometimes we say "Quid" for "£"
- "I got nicked by the old bill" means "I got arrested by the police
- "Chat up" means to talk in a flirtatious way with someone in order to get with them.
- When a plan "Goes pear shaped", it means the plan "went wrong".
Amy Winehouse and Jason Statham teach you British slang vocabulary in this English lesson!
Most common English slang terms (Including Cockney!):
- "You're fit" means "You're attractive"
- "That's bollocks" means "I don't believe you"
- "I ain't got the foggiest" means "I don't know/understand at all"
- "I'm shattered" means "I'm extremely tired"
- "I can't be bothered" means "I don't want to do this / I don't have the energy to do this"
- "Legless" means "very drunk"
- "Get a wriggle on!" means "Hurry up!"
- Sometimes we say "Quid" for "£"
- "I got nicked by the old bill" means "I got arrested by the police
- "Chat up" means to talk in a flirtatious way with someone in order to get with them.
- When a plan "Goes pear shaped", it means the plan "went wrong".










