Improve Your Vocabulary: 24 ways to complain in English

In England, we love to complain! We moan and grumble all the time, and we have many expressions we use for all this moaning and grumbling. In this lesson, I will show you informal ways to complain as well as formal expressions for complaining at work. You’ll learn expressions such as “a botch job“, “a bit miffed“, “all gone a bit pear-shaped“, “bog-standard“, and many more. Complain about this class in the comments, and take the quiz at: On Saturday May 14, I’m running a live business English bootcamp! Space is limited, so register right away: More English vocabulary: 30 adjectives to describe people in English 26 ways to say “I don’t care“ In this video: 00:00 Moaning & grumbling in English 00:51 I mustn’t grumble but... 01:57 a few sandwiches short of a picnic 02:36 bog-standard 03:04 a botch job 03:29 a dog’s dinner 04:07 gutted 04:30 a bit miffed 04:44 to overegg the pudding 05:25 It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped. 05:38 a shambles 05:54 a spanner in the works 06:38 It really takes the biscuit. 07:14 doing my head in 07:57 To be honest, I’m not really getting much out of this. 08:58 I’ve gotta say, this is testing my patience. 09:29 I think I’ve probably reached my limit now. 09:43 It just hasn’t lived up to my expectations. 10:00 I have to say, I was expecting a bit more. 10:26 It’s just not up to scratch. 10:52 I’m sorry, I’m not very happy with this. 11:13 I don’t really see the point of... 11:31 Look, I’m sorry -- I’m just finding it a bit frustrating. 11:58 Is that really necessary? 12:22 That’s ridiculous! 12:29 Review