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Helter-skelter and namby-pamby

Skelter Journey to the show we also have one that I love to say Namby pambi nambi pambi this is an adjective meaning weak feeble maybe excessively emotional and it's a bit cruel...

Course: Richer words and phrasesSection: Rhyming slang and wordplaySubtitles: en

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a Helter

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Skelter Journey to the show we also have

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one that I love to say Namby pambi nambi

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pambi this is an adjective meaning weak

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feeble maybe excessively emotional and

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it's a bit cruel to be honest what a

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Namby pamby idea it's really insulting

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willy-nilly is one that I use all the

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time and this is an adverb to describe

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doing something in an irregular way the

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new agency just sends its proposals

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willy-nilly yeah if you do something

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willy-nilly it's without planning or

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organization it's in a random chaotic

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way don't just do it willy-nilly think

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about it first we also have jeepers

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creepers jeepers creepers and this is an

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exclamation showing surprise or shock

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and I'm pretty sure that it comes from

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avoiding saying something Blasphemous

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um avoiding saying Jesus Christ because

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we have Jesus Christ Jeepers Creepers

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some people want to avoid that it's

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quite a nice one to use cheapest

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creepers knock on the door before you

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just come in next time now let's move on

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to the topic of nicknames British people

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quite like assigning nicknames to each

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other and we love them even more if they

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rhyme so

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