Full Time

[BobK]

...
cf:

told on him
ratted on him
squealed on him

.. and ncf (just made that up - it means 'don't compare)
grassed him up

I suspect this is strictly BE, and very informal - it was originally strictly criminal jargon: grassing always involved telling the police. But I've heard a school-child using it to refer to another child telling a teacher something:

I used to bring my mobile to school until Smiffy grassed me up.

b

[curmudgeon]

They are all wrong! It's very poor english, even informally

[curmudgeon]

'Grass' -from the rhyming slang 'grass in the park' - 'nark', meaning informer.

'He's a coppers nark'

[MikeNewYork]

.. and ncf (just made that up - it means 'don't compare)
grassed him up

I suspect this is strictly BE, and very informal - it was originally strictly criminal jargon: grassing always involved telling the police. But I've heard a school-child using it to refer to another child telling a teacher something:

I used to bring my mobile to school until Smiffy grassed me up.

b

Now that's a new one.

[MikeNewYork]

They are all wrong! It's very poor english, even informally

A Scotsman complaining about poor English?

[Tdol]

Having learnt it as a foreign language, the Curmudge may well know it better than native speakers.

[MikeNewYork]

Having learnt it as a foreign language, the Curmudge may well know it better than native speakers.

[RonBee]

This might be a BrE difference, but 'works a full-time job' sounds a little strange to me. I'd use 'does a full-time job'.

It's the opposite here with "does a full-time job" sounding a little strange.

I wonder sometimes how we can communicate at all.

[curmudgeon]

Having learnt it as a foreign language, the Curmudge may well know it better than native speakers.

I'll have you know I went to a high school. It was on top of a hill.