BRITISH SLANGS FOR IELTS (Part 30)

• Put a sock in it - This is one way of telling someone to shut up. Clearly the sock needs to be put in their loud mouth!

• Put paid to - This is an expression which means to put an end to something. For example you could say that rain put paid to the cricket match, meaning it stopped play.

• Quid - A pound in money is called a quid. It is the equivalent to the buck or clam in America. A five pound note is called a fiver and a ten pound note is called a tenner.

• Quite - When used alone, this word means the same as absolutely!

• Rat arsed - Yet another term for drunk, sloshed or plastered. You might say loaded. In the UK, loaded is a men's magazine that covers sex and football.

• Read - If someone asks you what you read at university, they mean what was your major at school.

• Really - This is one of those words where you say almost the same thing as us, but just can't be fagged to finish it off. The word is "really", not real. You say things like it's real hot, something's real cool, a baby is real cute. If we said that we would be sent to the back of the class for our grammar - or lack of it!

• Redundancy - If you are made redundant it means you are laid off.

• Reverse the charges - When you want to ring someone up and you have no money you can call the operator and ask to reverse the charges in the UK. In the US you would call collect.