Sherlock, Get off with someone

Sherlock, Series 01, Episode 02, The blind banker.


Sherlock: All I need to do is have a quick look around the place

Dr. Watson: Fine. You do that, I'll take Sarah for a pint.

Sherlock: I need your help

Dr. Watson: I do have a couple of other things on my mind this evening.
Sherlock: Like what?

Dr. Watson: You are kidding? What's so important? Sherlock, I'm right in the middle of a date. You're going to chase some killer while I'm trying to...

Sherlock: What?

Dr. Watson: While I'm trying to get off with Sarah. Hey... Ready?

Sarah: Yeah.

To get off with someone: to start a sexual relationship with someone

Sherlock , either way

Sherlock, Series 01, Episode 01, A Study in Pink


Jeff: It's pure genius. I know how people think. I know how people think I think. I can see it all like a map inside my head. Everyone's so stupid, even you. Or maybe God just loves me. 
Sherlock Holmes: Either way, you're wasted as a cabbie. 


either way: used to say that something will be the same whichever of two things happens or is true.


cabbie: a taxi driver (also cabby)

Sherlock, a three-patch problem

Sherlock, Series 01, Episode 01, A Study in Pink


Dr. John Watson: What are you doing? 
Sherlock Holmes: Nicotine patch. Helps me think. It's impossible to sustain a smoking habit in London these days. 
Dr. John Watson: That's good news for breathing. 
Sherlock Holmes: Ah, breathing. Breathing's boring. 
Dr. John Watson: Is that three patches? 
Sherlock Holmes: It's a three-patch problem. 


Like a five-pound note (a fiver) or a ten-pound note (a tenner)

Sherlock, to be out of your depth

Sherlock, Series 01, Episode 01, A Study in Pink


Dr John Watson: Who are you? What do you do? 
Sherlock Holmes: What do you think? 
Dr John Watson: I'd say private detective... 
Sherlock Holmes: But? 
Dr John Watson: But the police don't consult private detectives. 
Sherlock Holmes: I'm a consulting detective. The only one in the world - I invented the job. 
Dr John Watson: What does that mean? 
Sherlock Holmes: It means when the police are out of their depth - which is always - they consult me. 


to be out of your depth: to be involved in a situation or activity which is difficult for you to understand or deal with

Sherlock, to break into my flat

Sherlock, Series 01, Episode 01, A Study in Pink


Sherlock Holmes: You can't just break into my flat.


DI Lestrade: And you can't withhold evidence. And I didn't break into your flat.


Sherlock Holmes: Well what do you call this then?


DI Lestrade: ...It's a drugs bust.


Break into: to enter a building or a car by using force in order to steal something

(bust : a situation in which the police go into a place in order to catch people doing something illegal)

Churchill broadcasts to the world: If we can stand up to him

The World at War, Episode 4, Alone, May 1940 - May 1941


Narrator: (...) left of Dunkirk surrounded on June the 4th. Thousands of troops could not be rescued. A fortnight later, France stopped fighting and the British Prime Minister Churchill broadcasts to the world:


Winston Churchill: What General Weygand has called the battle of France is over, the battle of Britain is about to begin. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’


Fortnight: two weeks.


Break somebody: to make someone feel that they have been completely defeated and they cannot continue working or living.


Stand up to somebody: to be on your feet, to refuse to accept unfair treatment from a person or organization.


Sunlit: made brighter from the light of sun.


uplands: the parts of a country that are far from the sea and are higher than other areas.


brace yourself: to prepare to do something


bear yourself: to walk, to stand, in a particular way, especially when this shows your character.

Dick Turpin, Two of a kind, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours

Dick Turpin, Series 02, Episode 03. The Blood Money

Dick Turpin: Look at them. Two of a kind.
Swiftnick: What do you mean?
Dick Turpin: Well, you scratch my back, Colonel de Coursey and I'll scratch yours.

(Two/three, etc of a kind = two/three, etc people or things that are very similar)
(You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours = used to say that you'll help someone if they agree to help you)