Really cross

[Hingeandbracket]

Is this a regional expression?

I keep seeing it on here and I always imagine it being said in a Southern English accent.

It sounds like a refugee from a 1950s Ealing Comedy.

[PawPatrolMakesMeDrink]

I’m northern, Yorkshire, I’ve always said it.

[Dhalandchips]

I say it instead of pissed off to the kids if they've pissed me off. I'm northern living in the South with a hybrid accent due to being an army brat.

[BuffaloCauliflower]

Well maybe I’m giving myself away as a southerner, but what’s wrong with ‘really cross’? Seems like a pretty basic thing to say. I probably say pissed off more but wouldn’t think anything of the former. I’d have thought cross was a pretty basic English word?

[Ferfooksek]

Every time I hear it, I imagine it’s someone from Turnbridge Wells.

[AnnoyedByAlfieBear]

I thought it was a normal thing to say?

[pancakesunday]

It's just a normal thing to say. I'm from the Midlands and I say it 😄

[WhyCantIThinkOfAGoodOne]

It's a polite way of saying you're fucked off.

[puds11]

I say annoyed but my mum always said cross. She’s Yorkshire.

[MarieQueenofScots]

I’m northern, Yorkshire, I’ve always said it

This

[elQuintoConyo]

"Really cross, from Gillingham" on Points of View

I've always used this expression, also a forces brat that's lived all over the shop!

[Lindy2]

Er no.

It's just what you say when you're really cross.

[MajesticWhine]

Reminds me of the joke about the nuns who are driving along and a vampire jumps on to the windscreen of their car. One sister says to the other "show him your cross" and the other one yells out of the window "get off the fucking car"

[hiredandsqueak]

I say it, it used to strike fear into the dc when they were younger. As they got older I'd go for "I'm not cross just disappointed" which ds informed me, as an adult, was far worse than "really cross"

[BasicIntentions]

I say this. I’m in Lancashire.

[merryhouse]

yeah, it only sounds weird and old-fashioned because you're so used to people saying they're pissed off

I'm from the East Midlands and we had the word "crosspatch"

Crosspatch, draw the latch
sit by the fire and spin
take a cup and drink it up -
and call the neighbours in

[TriciaMcMillan]

London born and bred, 'really cross' is a lifesaver for when I actually mean 'incredibly fucked off' but can't say that in front of the children!

[LouiseTrees]

@Hingeandbracket I feel like you might be Scottish and it does occasionally get said up here too. Although the word angry comes out more often than cross.

[TriciaMcMillan]

Sometime it's worse and I'm really quite cross.

[Dieu]

Very few Scots would use it. Maybe posh old grannies!

[custardbear]

Southerner here living in the East Midlands and use cross a lot - have young
Children though so feel it's better than I'm really ducked /pissed off

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Fucking fuming or pissed off here.Never heard anyone be restrained and saying I'm cross.

[fascinated]

Not really used in Scotland even by posh folk. Angry, upset etc

Or Scots

Beelin’ !

Is my fave. Nowadays people swear a lot but that’s not my style.

[fascinated]

Surely fuming is more than cross tho? I always thought cross was just a bit displeased... but maybe I’m wrong!

Ragin’ is another popular one here. But that to me is stronger than just cross...

[Mirador]

I was also a forces brat, half the family from Yorkshire and half from Lancashire and we used 'really cross' and various forms of it. Ah the refrains of 'See how cross you've made me?' or 'Now you've made me really cross' bring back memories.

I'm in my late forties now and back when I was little, saying pissed would have sent my parents into apoplexy. In fact thanks to the conditioning as a kid, I still struggle to say pissed off, as it feels like I'm being bad for swearing

[MarieQueenofScots]

I would never fume or be pissed off.

I might be “really cross”, “really quite cross” or the zenith of “immensely annoyed”. Beware the latter.