The official bored-at-work cryptic crossword pass it on thread.

I also had never seen "uppers" for broke either, but I think I learn a new British slang term every couple of days.

i'm brassic mate, i'm skint, i'm on me uppers. i can't even qualify for my pension.

Okay, brassic just blew my mind.

it threw me a bit the first few times i heard it irl. you're what?

Most posh wine shops getting into alcohol-free (8)

TOFFIEST. I actually got this one with a little guessing, but it cracked me up because both parts of the clue, plus the answer, are three things that an American who has never encountered a cryptic crossword would be flabbergasted by.

(narrator) I was still flabbergasted.

That is funny, but I although I could work out what “toffiest” means I’ve never heard it used. For that matter, I’ve never heard anyone say “toffy” meaning posh (or manifesting as posh). Toff, by all means.

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Doing cryptics every few days I encounter a new slang term I’ve never heard before. Today it’s budgie smuggler.

Pretty much universally understood here in Australia, expressions like this are what we have instead of culture (with apologies to our First Peoples)

Lots of them in this week’s Quiptic: clobber, beanfeast, browned off, as well as discovering that spaghetti on toast is a thing.

I would imagine it's mostly done with tinned spaghetti, similar to beans on toast (obviously i am far too well bred to have ever had such a thing myself).

That’s it exactly, looks particularly nauseating with SpaghettiOs.