Learn the funniest insults to defend yourself in English

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English humour is known for its use of irony and for being brilliant, and its insults are no less so. We don't mean to offend anyone, but today we bring you a list of funny insults in English with a lot of class.




Humor is one of the most difficult things to translate, as it is closely linked spain phone number list culture, but we will try to explain what these insults mean as best as possible. If you want to know some tips to translate better, you can find them in this post .

To question someone's intelligence
Some of the most hilarious insults are those used to offend another person's intellect, let's look at some:

Daft as a brush – in principle, brooms don’t have to be dumber than other objects, but the translation would be something like “dumber than a broom”, perhaps because it is the one that is in charge of picking up the dirt.

The structure of daft as… is a fairly common way to insult, for example it can be used with crazy as…, ugly as…, you will see it constantly.

Dead from the neck up – This idiom is pretty self-explanatory; “dead from the neck up” is another fancy way of calling someone stupid, really stupid.

Lose the plot – this phrase could be translated as “to lose the thread”, in the sense that someone is not following the story of, for example, a movie. But another meaning is to go crazy or very stupid, to stop behaving in a logical manner.