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Topic: Another local expression - do you have a variant? (Read 6859 times)
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mother25
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Something a family friend used to say was 'Old Timer's Disease' she meant Alzheimer's disease of course 
I think that's called a Malapropism though rather than a family saying.
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nort
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here's a one
when going into a dark room "you can't see a bat's eye" !!!
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Cully1418
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A few years ago I took my place in the family line up for my grandad's birthday photo. Grandad came out with "You wouldn't stop a pig in a passage" - a reference to the fact that I am somewhat bow legged! Bless him!
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Ozdot
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More from my husband - born in Sheffield -
"She's got Face On" (usually when someone is in a bad mood or sulking etc)
"Nesh" this one has been on here I see (feels the cold and complains about it)
"Mardy" (someone who whines ALL the time about nothing)
My father-in-law said to our elder daughter when she was only a toddler (much to my mother-in-law's disgust) "Don't put your dannies in your mussie" . Meaning, I think, keep your hands out of your mouth.
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Dorset - Cole, Roberts,
Northants - Mulliner, Shaw
Oxon - King, Palmer, Hedges
Lincs - Dawson, Wills, Simons
Derbys - Wills, Widdowson, Peach, Turner
Kent - Wolfe, Bowen
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mother25
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I think being nesh must be a northern thing, because I recall it from my childhood in Liverpool and my late hubby knew it from his childhood in Manchester, but when we moved South nobody seemed aware of it 
If we asked 'what's for dinner' my mum would often say 'A run round the table 'til you're fed up' meaning there wasn't much available 
If there were black clouds in the distance, my gran would say 'It's stormy over Fred's mother's' No idea who Fred was or his mother
I wonder what our children/grandchildren will remember about us 
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Viktoria
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Of a courting couple neither of whom were very nice looking ," best they `re together then neither of`um ull spoil another pair " Viktoria.
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mother25
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Love that Viktoria
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cad
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Poethlyn, Grand National winner 1918 and 1919
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I mentioned in my earlier post that my mum used to say "they'd spoil another couple" although she'd use it to describe a pair who were nutty rather than ugly, or a couple who deserved each other, I think we all know what that means!
Mum was also one for spoonerisms, our cars were always old bangers and one day when Dad came home with a Moggy Miner, she announced that we should hang on to this one as one day it would be a "colliters ectum", this became a family saying.
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Wiltshire: Cainey, Summers, Payne
Somerset:Wallis,
London: Binden, Sullivan, Tickner, Tilt
Ireland: Tracey, Sullivan, Dalton
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cad
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Poethlyn, Grand National winner 1918 and 1919
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Although I've heard cack-handed means left-handed, I've always used it to mean clumsy, in fact I called His Nibs that only today! I think it's because cack means crap in Welsh, at least according to my Granddad it does!
Granddad was from that generation of Welsh whose parents actively discouraged their children from learning the language even though it was their own first language.
Great-Granddad used to say "I speak three spokes, English, Welsh and rubbish".
Apart from cack and the usual Welsh everyone knows, the only other Welsh that crept into his vocabulary was "wedi mynd", used when something was unfixable. Mum told me it meant "gone west" actually wedi means past and mynd means go, does that mean the Long Mynd in Shropshire is Long Gone? !!
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Wiltshire: Cainey, Summers, Payne
Somerset:Wallis,
London: Binden, Sullivan, Tickner, Tilt
Ireland: Tracey, Sullivan, Dalton
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Eyesee
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Growing up here in NZ in the 60s used to here some of those expressions, particularly from my maternal grandparents.
When asking what was for dinner you would get told 'Dimplets", which meant S**t with sugar on usually .
'Mad as a meat axe' was another one
My paternal grandfather had one expression 'Silly as a two-bob watch'
Ian C
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