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Your support makes all the difference.HERE, for the benefit of tourists and other students of English, is a list of the varied ways in which the British express disbelief in each other. By constantly using the different expressions, you will soon learn which one expresses the correct amount of incredulity.
Oh?
0h, really?
Well
Well, well
Well, I never
Is that so?
How very interesting
How very, very interesting
Is that a fact?
Who'd have thought it?
You don't say?
Tell me more
Be that as it may
With the greatest respect
That's all very well, but
I beg leave to differ
On the other hand
Is it not possible that . . .?
If you say so
I'll believe you - thousands wouldn't
Well, I'll be . . .
Well, I'll be damned
Well, I'll be hornswoggled
You must be joking
I have my doubts
I begin to wonder
Credibility gap ahead
A likely story
A tall tale
I smell a rat
Says you
Some hope
Pull the other one
Tell that to the Marines
Do you think I was born yesterday?
What do you take me for - a fool?
Think I'm wet behind the ears?
Are you trying to teach your grandmother to suck eggs?
Give us a break
And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Are you taking the Michael?
Are you extracting the urine?
And pigs can fly
I should cocoa
Liar liar, pants on fire]
Same to you, with knobs on
You're talking through your hat
You're putting me on
You're winding me up
Horsefruit, sailor]
Moonshine
Baloney
Fiddlesticks
Stuff and nonsense
Codswallop
What a load of cobblers
Tosh
Balderdash
Mullarkey
Go and take a running jump]
Get lost]
If you believe that, you'll believe anything
I bet you say that to all the girls
That'll be the day
Don't give me that
You're asking me to swallow . . .?
You're going out on a limb here
You would say that, wouldn't you?
Well, I'm not saying you're wrong
Well, stranger things have happened at sea
These are deep waters, Watson
Much work still needs to be done on this theory
While in no way doubting the
essential veracity of what you
say, I am not sure that this is the best moment to announce it, and it might be as well to put it on
the back burner for a while, so I am going to recommend that you stall for time by announcing a public inquiry, or a select committee hearing, or any of the usual delaying tactics, before we ask the media and the public
to swallow a lie of quite this
enormity . . .
Are you not being economical with the truth?
With the actualite?
I can see what you're getting at
I can see what you're trying to say
I can see the point
I see . . .
I understand . . .
I'm sure you're right . . .
Yes, sir . . .
Yes, Minister . . .
Yes, Prime Minister . . .
Of course, Your Majesty . . .
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