List of common phrases based on stereotypes
This is a list of common American and English words and phrases based on racial, ethnic, religious, regional or other stereotypes. All should be presumed derogatory and offensive until proven otherwise.
- Chinaman's chance, having no chance at all.
- Chinese compliment, pretending to acknowledge the opinions of others, while going forward with an already made decision.
- Chinese copy, a duplicate that replicates something perfectly, including errors
- Chinese firedrill
- Croydon facelift
- Cry like a girl
- Dutch courage, drunken bravery
- Dutch fuck, lighting a cigarette with another lit cigarette to save the extra match
- Dutch treat
- Dutch uncle
- Eskimo kiss, rubbing noses
- Greek sex, anal sex
- Free, white and 21 (and therefore can do what one wants)
- French kiss (not offensive -- there is a French verb frencher meaning this type of kiss)
- French leave, to go AWOL or disappear stealthily, presumably retaliatory for French filer anglais
- French letter, condom
- Gyp, to cheat, from Gypsy
- Indian giver
- Irish confetti, a thrown or tossed stone or brick
- Irish twins
- to Jew someone out of something (anti-Semitic phrase which implies that Jews are cheats)
- Mighty 'white' of you sarcastic African-American expression meaning 'that's big of you' see Play the White Man, below
- Mongoloid
- New York snowball, a snowball with a brick or chunk of something hard hidden in the middle.
- Nigger-rigged described improvised or poorly-done work. The phrase Jury- or Jerry-rigged is now usually substituted.
- Normal for Norfolk
- Paddywagon
- Play the white man
- Puerto Rican blond badly dyed hair, or a woman with the same
- Scottish kiss
- Southern hospitality
- Throw like a girl
- Trailer trash
- Welsher (Welcher), from Wales, meaning "renege on a bet"
- White Trash a term of insult to uncouth Caucasians
- Yankee ingenuity
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