When someone fully leans into their most aggressively British behaviour — moaning about the weather, making tea in a crisis, using passive aggression as a primary communication tool, and silently judging everyone's queue etiquette. Blighty mode is activated when the Britishness becomes the whole personality, not just a background feature. Expats abroad trigger it hardest: two weeks in Barcelona and suddenly it's all warm beer, pub quiz nostalgia, and complaints about the lack of proper biscuits.
He's been in blighty mode since landing — already found a pub with Premier League coverage and ordered a Full English.
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