Insults that never made an impact this side of the pond

[Fire_on_High]

"Bint" is a portmanteau (I do love that word!) between "bitch" and "cunt." And somehow ends up being less offensive than either of those.

Is it? Wow...for some reason I had it in my head it was derived from an Arabic insult...interesting to find out how wrong that was. And no, I have no idea where I got that idea from...

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[wolfie]

One of my favourite phrases ever is "tell it to the back of me sack". It's like "talk to the hand", but a million times better. I wish I was a man so I could use it.

Not necessarily a disqualification. IIRC, in one of the Sharpe movies (based on the books by Bernard Cornwell), one character said to another "If you were a man, I'd call you out, challenge you to a duel, and shoot you". Sharpe's wife (the Spanish guerilla, killed by a deserter sometime during the series, not the selfish English woman he married later) said that to a senior officer who was thoroughly incompetent, and only had high rank due to the fact that he had bought the commission.