# Leave it with me (a common british phrase) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811 "2023-11-28T14:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/41 "2023-11-29T00:30:47Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The British just mangle it… Heard them say “jag-yoo-ar”, which, sure, I find egregiously horrifying. (Oh but darn sure currently enjoying [the build.](https://www.ebay.ca/itm/266270222121)) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/42 "2023-11-29T00:39:08Z")
On YouTube, there is a **The Repair Shop** channel. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen all these episodes (I believe you’re right about it being on Netflix a couple years back) but I don’t mind watching them again, at all. There are also SHORTS, which seem to be some original info mixed in with clips and some of the repairers are putting original content on the channel. This may be prelude to more new episodes being imported, but don’t hold me to it. There’s also an Australian version I’ve seen but it didn’t grab me. I think **TRS** would be the basis of a nifty, if probably short-lived, thread here. (Hint, hint.) ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/43 "2023-11-29T00:56:09Z")
That’s how I interpret it. Closer to “I am willing to help” than a passive-agressive “I’ll postpone this indefinitely”. I had a landlord who used, “I’ll get right onto it.” for every request made to him, but it quickly became apparent that this was functionally identical to the response you’d get from talking to a wall. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/44 "2023-11-29T01:57:51Z")
I recently started binge watching The Repair Shop on Youtube: > **[The Repair Shop](https://www.youtube.com/c/therepairshop)** > > The Repair Shop' is a workshop of dreams where broken or damaged cherised family heirlooms are brought back to life. Furniture restorers, horologists, metal workers, ceramicists, upholsterers and all manner of skilled craftsmen and women have been... ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/45 "2023-11-29T02:04:44Z")
> [@Ferris](#): > > I had a landlord who used, “I’ll get right onto it.” for every request made to him, but it quickly became apparent that this was functionally identical to the response you’d get from talking to a wall. That reminds me of my own: “I’ll add it to my list.” Yes, it will get done, but I’m making no time commitments. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/46 "2023-11-29T10:56:11Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > If someone said “leave it with me” here at work, I’d expect that they were saying that it belonged in their to-do pile rather than mine. That’s how I use it at work - it means I’ll take whatever it is from someone else and attempt to deal with it. It also means that I can’t necessarily fix whatever it is in minutes, might take me a while so don’t expect an immediate result because it probably requires escalation somewhere else. It also means that the other person no longer needs to worry about it, and if they are asked what happened, they pass that on to me as well. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/47 "2023-11-29T11:48:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > it comes off as being arrogantly wrong. WTF? It’s how we pronounce the word in (British) English. Jaguar are a British company. How the fuck is that arrogant? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/48 "2023-11-29T12:19:47Z")
Yes, but at least it makes sense there, However … Consider the following : “Have you got a dog ?” “Yes I do” wtf ? Yes you do have got a dog ? Maybe if the question was “Do you have a dog” but it wasn’t. This happens a lot here in the UK. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/49 "2023-11-29T12:47:27Z")
Hijack #1: > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I think **TRS** would be the basis of a nifty, if probably short-lived, thread here. (Hint, hint.) There is nothing stopping you from posting that OP. Substantive reply to thread: > [@Ferris](#): > > That’s how I interpret it. Closer to “I am willing to help” than a passive-agressive “I’ll postpone this indefinitely”. Yeah. _Any_ reply can be a passive aggressive blow-off if the person making it is a passive aggressive blower-offer (“PABO”). Conversely, just because PABOs exist doesn’t mean everyone uses every hand-off phrase that way. > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > That’s how I use it at work - it means I’ll take whatever it is from someone else and attempt to deal with it. It also means that I can’t necessarily fix whatever it is in minutes, might take me a while so don’t expect an immediate result because it probably requires escalation somewhere else. It also means that the other person no longer needs to worry about it, and if they are asked what happened, they pass that on to me as well. That’s sure the right way. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > That reminds me of my own: “I’ll add it to my list.” Yes, it will get done, but I’m making no time commitments. I used to use that line when I had that sort of job. But full disclosure ideally would follow: “It’ll be at least two weeks before I can even glance at [whatever], so don’t expect quick service.” I used to work for a guy who could invent 40 hours of new work every half day and as fast as he asked for something he’d ignore the fact he’d done so. “Being an executive means delegate, right? Timely delivery will just happen; not my problem.” seemed to be his mantra. We’d literally have needed to hire 2 people per day every day to keep up with what he asked for. Ignoring the drain of any training effort for all those newbies. He also liked LIFO priority. Whatever he thought of most recently was THE only priority. Which actually worked well. If you didn’t like some particualr crazed idea, just ignore it for 4 hours and something else will have replaced it as today’s must-do thing. 😁 Hijack #2: > [@pjd](#): > > Consider the following : > “Have you got a dog ?” > “Yes I do” > wtf ? Yes you do have got a dog ? > Maybe if the question was “Do you have a dog” but it wasn’t. I have never considered the idea of trying to plug a reply sentence into the question sentence to see if they fit together. That’s insane. Answer the substance of the question, sure. In matching grammatical form? Why, oh why? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/50 "2023-11-29T12:54:36Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Consider the following : > “Have you got a dog ?” > “Yes I do” > wtf ? Yes you do have got a dog ? > Maybe if the question was “Do you have a dog” but it wasn’t. > This happens a lot here in the UK. Bastards. Perhaps because the answer reflects the way the question _should_ have been phrased. ‘Have you got a dog’ sounds awful. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/51 "2023-11-29T13:46:47Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > ‘Have you got a dog’ sounds awful. Not to me. Either is ok - “have you got a dog ?” or “do you have a dog ?” I just hate when the answer doesn’t match. Just me, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/52 "2023-11-29T13:49:27Z")
Surely the only correct phrasing is “Have you a dog?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/53 "2023-11-29T14:11:28Z")
No, it’s: “You gotta _pupper_? Wanna see, wanna see!” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/54 "2023-11-29T14:33:39Z")
Thanks for mentioning the YouTube channel. And FYI, The Repair Shop was the subject of a [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-repair-shop-bbc-tv-series/931039/29) in January 2021. (Oddly, I posted there and even mentioned their YouTube channel but must have forgotten about that. But now I’m watching from the beginning. Anyone know which series was available on Netflix a couple of years ago?) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/55 "2023-11-29T14:41:02Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’m mostly bothered by the pronunciation of “jaguar”. The original pronunciation in Spanish is “hah-gwar”. In American English, the “J” is pronounced the way it normally it is in English, but otherwise it’s pronounced the same as the original. The British just mangle it, and then make a point to correct people on how to pronounce it, particularly with the Jaguar car company. (Now, to be fair, the company decides how it wants to be pronounced, they could insist that it be pronounced “kumquat” if they wanted to, but still, it comes off as being arrogantly wrong.) Virtually all English words have origins in other languages, and even words that have been adopted quite recently from other languages may be pronounced differently as English words. Pronunciation changes like this are not “mangling”, and if a British person tells you how a word is consistently pronounced in a UK dialect, that is an objectively correct fact. > [@Atamasama](#): > > The original pronunciation in Spanish is “hah-gwar”. By your own reasoning you are “arrogantly wrong” here, since I suspect the Portuguese pronunciation differs slightly from Tupi-Guarani. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/56 "2023-11-29T14:55:00Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Virtually all English words have origins in other languages, and even words that have been adopted quite recently from other languages may be pronounced differently as English words. Pronunciation changes like this are not “mangling”, and if a British person tells you how a word is consistently pronounced in a UK dialect, that is an objectively correct fact. One can sometimes buck the trend, though. I always talk about “[los ˈaŋxeles]”, even in English… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/57 "2023-11-29T15:50:05Z")
On a totally unrelated subject, the OP mentioned living in “the (good) Melbourne in Australia”. I was aware there is a large city called Melbourne in southern Australia. Is that the good one? Where is the bad Melbourne? Are there two Melbournes in Australia? Or is the bad one the Melbourne in Florida? Or is there a meaning here I’m missing? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/58 "2023-11-29T16:14:18Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > How the fuck is that arrogant? I said it comes off that way. I already explained why. How is that hard? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/59 "2023-11-29T16:15:16Z")
Durn it, I posted to the thread, too, and forgot all about it, but I have an excuse: I’m officially **Too Damn Old**. Can I interest you in a copy of our newsletter? It’s around here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811/60 "2023-11-29T17:41:19Z")
BTW there is also a (less common? more common?) variant: “leave it to me” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-it-with-me-a-common-british-phrase/993811.md?page=4)