{"id":86346,"date":"2025-06-17T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/meaning-what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-mug-somebody-off-in-british\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:50:00","slug":"meaning-what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-mug-somebody-off-in-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/meaning-what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-mug-somebody-off-in-british\/","title":{"rendered":"meaning &#8211; What exactly does it mean to &#8220;mug somebody off&#8221; in British &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not have any well-defined meaning as a phrase (I&#8217;m British, and I&#8217;ve never heard it). &#8220;Mug&#8221; has a variety of uses, so a sentence like that is probably not an idiom at all. You should bear in mind that a film may go to some lengths to accentuate (or even make up) &#8220;cockney-isms&#8221; \u2014 don&#8217;t mistake movie Cockney for British English, they are &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/20477\/what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-mug-somebody-off-in-british-english\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/20477\/what-exactly-does-it-mean-to-mug-somebody-off-in-british-english<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not have any well-defined meaning as a phrase (I&#8217;m British, and I&#8217;ve never heard it). &#8220;Mug&#8221; has a variety of uses, so a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}