Weather sayings
What does “taps aff” mean?
Scottish for “tops off”: a day warm enough for people to take their shirts off outside.
“Nineteen degrees in Glasgow. Taps aff.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
Glasgow and the west of Scotland, where “tap” is a top. In a country where warm days are rare, it is a public holiday in all but name.
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What I think of “taps aff”
Taps aff: the only forecast Scotland is genuinely excited about.
Taps aff weather lasts about an afternoon, and everyone in Glasgow knows it.
Taps aff is less a temperature than a state of mind.
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Sources: Common Scots usage.