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Thanks for sharing your perspective on the phrase. I was actually surprised to see your initial post about it, because while I wouldn't say it's an everyday term here in the US, it's one that I think most Americans would recognize, and I hadn't realized it doesn't translate. It's typically used by people of Irish descent and does play on the stereotype of Irish temper, though in context it has nothing to do with comparison against the British more than against any other nationality.

I'm going to make a wild guess that Sirius's player is also American and might not have put the terminology in Sirius's native context.