In Belgium, ordering your steak "English" means "well done plus an extra three minutes", or "carbonised".

In the Netherlands it means "mixed liquorice sweets", like the Liquorice Allsorts ("Engelse drop" - "drop" is liquorice).

And in soccer it means depending on crosses into the box rather than running the ball in; a player needing a 5-metre radius to "control" a ball, and avoiding first time-passing like the plague. Also remembering 1966.