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That would be the logo of the Association for the Abolition of Women
(they still have branches in Iran and Afghanistan)

 

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"Downing"

American for "Downing St" apparently

Well I heard it more than once from Jake Tapper on CNN.

Will it catch on?

See Truss has a £130,000 a year pension now that she is an ex-PM

Edit:that might be dollars

 

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Savant - defined as a learned person, especially someone with detailed knowledge about a particular subject.

My brother is a computer software savant, so I know that I can rely on him for technical questions about my laptop.

 

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...and then there is the idiot-savant, such as Rainman.

 

Someone like Beaver Cleaver?

 

Is that a be ever clever reference?

 

pent
adjective
ˈpent

: shut up : CONFINED, REPRESSED
a pent crowd
pent-up feelings

 

Pants
British slang for "very bad",awful etc

Perhaps a reference to dirty brown stained underpants (according to one contributor ,anyway)

https://www.quora.com/What-does-pants-mean-in-British-slang?share=1

 

Not a word but a letter
Q**(see the tail?) is thought to represent a monkey in the Canaanite language (2000BC) and made it down to our alphabet

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/503-2303/digs/11210-digs-israel-canaanite-comb-alphabet

The story of this comb they found is pretty great too.(it read apparently "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard")

**qof in the Canaanite alphabet

 

Most overused word (slang) in the UK..."mental" as in wow, that's mental, I can't believe that happened.

Most overused phrase in US intercity culture..."you know what I'm saying" as in "The Lakers suck, you know what I'm saying, but Lebron still might get it done, you know what I'm saying. He probably won't though, you know what I'm saying.

 

I heard this word the other day in the series, “You.” Never heard it used like that, and the American in the scene, inquired what it meant. lol