Hey, we’re not THAT British. We just like to sprinkle some 'u’s into our words to make them more colourful. A boot goes on your foot and it is also how you pronounce about.
Yeah, fair enough. Someone else told me the origin of the phrase. I’ve somehow managed to avoid it for 44 years. It just made more sense to me to be the British usage of the word. More space to carry stuff in.
Except in this case where fill your boots refers to either a mug, or literal boots. It depends on where you think the origins of fill your boots come from.
It’s either a sailors reference (mugs for rum) or a military reference (steal everything and fill your boots.)
Nothing to do with cars, but yes UK uses boot for the trunk of a car. Just doesn’t apply to this idiom
No worries eh, we get it. Come on over!
Plus, if you need to buy absolutely anything, enjoy a nice discount on our non-tariffed goods - iphones, spices, car tires, fill your boots.
Just don’t take the boxes with you. You came over with all that capiche?
For other Americans that don’t speak British English, in this case “boot” = the trunk of your car.Edit: apparently this is incorrect, however to quote the dictator of Liberia in the movie Lord of War: "Thank you, but I prefer it my way "
Hey, we’re not THAT British. We just like to sprinkle some 'u’s into our words to make them more colourful. A boot goes on your foot and it is also how you pronounce about.
Yeah, fair enough. Someone else told me the origin of the phrase. I’ve somehow managed to avoid it for 44 years. It just made more sense to me to be the British usage of the word. More space to carry stuff in.
In the west we say “a boat”
Except in this case where fill your boots refers to either a mug, or literal boots. It depends on where you think the origins of fill your boots come from.
It’s either a sailors reference (mugs for rum) or a military reference (steal everything and fill your boots.)
Nothing to do with cars, but yes UK uses boot for the trunk of a car. Just doesn’t apply to this idiom
Also, bootlegging.
I was today-years-old when I realized what that phrase really meant.