People who should learn to cop on

[PoliticalBiscuit]

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People who give their address (on Facebook buying pages etc) as

"It's number 13 on the Hurst, behind the bins that are next to the old oak tree."

How the fuck am I going to put that in Google Maps?

Ooh, I know about copping off, and copping on.

I’d forgotten about cop a feel
WarraLiberty 😂

Reminds me when someone kept telling me a story about how he'd pulled a bloke in a bar but he meant "pulled to one side" and it was some form of telling off, rather than a snog

Just catching up with a bit of news - Jeremy Corbyn and his advisers should definitely cop on to the exasperated sigh he makes when he's asked a reasonable question by a female reporter

Just catching up with a bit of news - Jeremy Corbyn and his advisers should definitely cop on to the exasperated sigh he makes when he's asked a reasonable question by a female reporter

Are you assuming the reporter’s gender? 😮 Jeremy will chuck you in the gulag!

Cop on means to wake up, shift yourself and use the brains you were born with.

Never heard the phrase before. Every day's a school day on MN!

I've heard cop on before. I think the phrase might have originated in Ireland alright. I have friends there who definitely say it.
Catch yourself on is the northern Irish version. Much used in Derry Girls, the channel 4 show.

I can hear Jim McDonald right now "Catch yourself on Elizabeth"