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I've always liked the word "twigged", for "realized", as in "after thinking a minute, I've twigged to the secret". Roughly similar to "the penny dropped", a British phrase. Or maybe "twigged" is British too?

Which brings me to a possible problem: how to tell British slang from American slang from Australian slang? Living in Canada, you get bits of all three (and many others), to the point where it's hard to tell them apart. If, indeed, that matters.

twigged: not american, or else it's brand new, and I haven't heard it yet

Sorry,

This one is definitivly UK in origin. I use it, but my ex is a Brit. But again, globalization and the language at work.

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Hmmm... it -might- be American slang, left over from hardboiled detective novels and Film Noir. It sounds like something from a Dashiel Hammett novel.

"And that's when I twigged to the set-up: that dirty stool-pigeon had rigged a frame-job, and they were playing me for a patsy."

Probably means your hard in america (I'm not explaning what hard means its man slang that crosses international borders)