1940 Slang add to it !!!
A
All's I'm Saying -- all I’m saying. . .
Aces -- great
B
big to-do -- the big deal
bring home the bacon -- who makes the money
beat -- tired
beef -- problem
breathe a word -- telling someone
C
cheapskate -- someone who won’t spend money
crimeny -- geez
D
Dear John -- break-up letter
dropping you like a hot potato -- dumping you
deer talking to headlights -- someone who has trouble speaking to
another
dollar to a donut hole -- a sure thing
drop of a hat -- just like that
E
easy -- a person who puts out
F
fag -- cigarette
fool of the western world -- idiot
H
haven’t the foggiest -- have no idea
heaven’s sakes -- geez
holy smokes -- oh my gosh
J
joker -- clown, fool
L
luckier than all get-out -- I’m luckier than anything
the line -- assembly line
lousy -- not good
lose your shirt -- you’ll lose everything
M
making time -- going out with someone
marbles -- your mind
mits -- hands
my back teeth are floating -- I need to pee. . .really bad
N
no skin off my nose -- not my problem
not being square -- not telling the truth
notice -- getting fired from a job
no nevermind -- no difference to me
no siree -- nope
O
out of sorts -- in a bad mood
on the 8 ball -- having bad luck
P
pleased as punch -- happy
pity sake -- heaven’s sake
Q
queer bird -- strange person
R
round heels -- prostitute
Rockefeller -- rich person
righto -- right
S
snafu -- situation normal all fouled (effed) up
says you -- (sarcastic) according to you
so to speak -- not literal
scrounged -- cheated
section 8 material -- crazy
swell -- good
[the] sack -- bed
sap -- idiot
sure as tootin -- (s)he better. . .
T
two timer -- one who cheats on girl or boyfriend
U
under your skin -- annoying
Y
you know so much -- (sarcastic) smart alec or wise guy
Jimmney Crickets --when you blow your top
stool pigeon----someone who rats
rat----stool pigeon
I'm not sure those are of 40's origin but just a guess.
As a "Limey" I've often wondered how you people saw the term "Yanks" as used during WW2 in the UK and up to to-day? Is/was it ok.
The saying I remember most was "the Yanks are, overpaid, oversexed and over here". They were definately the latter, we needed them! But the first two???
This is probably not PC and I hope no one takes it too seriously.
Colin.
Sucker someone falls for a scam
Take a powder go ahead and leave
As a "Limey" I've often wondered how you people saw the term "Yanks" as used during WW2 in the UK and up to to-day? Is/was it ok.
The saying I remember most was "the Yanks are, overpaid, oversexed and over here". They were definately the latter, we needed them! But the first two???
This is probably not PC and I hope no one takes it too seriously.
Colin.
I remember that, Colin. The bantering I recall was:
(Brit) "The trouble with the Americans is that they are overpaid, oversexed and over here!"
(Yank) "The trouble with the Brits is that they are underpaid, undersexed and under Montgomery!"
Hopefully, that was always in jest and with friendly 
Blighty: Britain -- the home land
Java -- coffee
Knock me up -- (Brit) wake me up in the morning -- at that time each street in the towns of industrial England (at least where I lived) had a designated "knocker up" whose job it was to tap on the bedroom windows of working people with a long stick early in the workday mornings in order to awake them -- he was the alarm clock for the street. The term had common usage to mean "come by and get me" -- it caused some confusion when girls used it in conversation with GIs (Yanks).
Knock me up
Over here that has quite a different meaning. There was a similiar phrase, "knocked-up", which meant she was pregnant.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Knock me up
Over here that has quite a different meaning. There was a similiar phrase, "knocked-up", which meant she was pregnant.
Yes, that was the thrust of my post!
On more than one occasion I would bet the knocker up had awoken the recently knocked up.
Colin and James,
Call me a Yank if you like. Just don't call me late for 
Yes, that was the thrust of my post!
Yes, I was not quite awake this morning when I wrote that. I should have expounded on it and not treated it as though you hadn't caught the drift! After my first cup of 
, I am now alert and can follow the gist of conversation. 
I had an English friend who I used to email all the time years ago and she was talking to some yanks one day and said something (God how I wish I could remember the word) and they just about fell off their pub stools. Seems she said something innocent, that wasn't so innocent back home in the states. She was so embarrassed. 
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Does " knock knock " mean two are pregnant
Art
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
To our Brit friends what does "Blimey " mean
Art
