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Topic: Another local expression - do you have a variant? (Read 6873 times)
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Josephine
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My husband says, "That's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick".
His grandparents were from the Wirral, West Kirby, Cheshire.
I had never heard it before my husband said it to me.
Regards,
Josephine
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Inicky
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feeling ' rough as a badgers a**e'  north east
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liverpool annie
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What's to eat ?? ........ Bread and spit and duck under the table !!!!!!!
A moggie is a cat in Liverpool ... as in " kicked a moggie down de jigger "!!!!!!!!!!! 
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JustKia
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When we asked our mum what was for dinner she always replied
Bread and pull it, the further you pull it the further it will go. Oh I forgot that one, my dad always used to say it - well, in the context of that's what he was going to eat himself.
I remember Sunday evenings when my grandparents would be out and it was just me and my dad, he'd make bread and pull it then. It's where my love of crusts came from.
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MARLOW/JECOCK - Northamptonshire/Warwickshire : WIMBUSH/JUSTICE - Oxfordshire/Warwickshire : SCALES/BRIDGES/ENGLISH/JARMAN - Suffolk : GARRETT/GIBBS - Warwickshire : DEVOS - Scotland (Aberdeen)/France(Dunkerque) : MURRAY - Ireland(Down)/Scotland(Lochs) : TIGHE/TREACY - Cork Stanley Charles SCALES b.1899 - Where are you? *** Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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pete edwards
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H i JustKia 
Did you know where the saying " Sweet Fanny Adams " Came from ?
www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/341000.html - 9k
P.S, this site contains a few swear words,
Pete,
P.P.S mizzle is light rain around here
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Edwards, mainly Cound, Frodesely, Acton Burnell. Pitchford. and surrounding villages, Shropshire, / Rowe, Cound, / Littlehales, Berrington, Shropshire / Radford, Dublin, / Maguire, Acton Burnell, / Rudge, Frodesely, /
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JustKia
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Well, no I didn't know it referred to a real person. I always assumed someone must have had the name seeing as neither first nor last were particularly uncommon, but not that it specifically referred to someone (in such sad circumstances too).
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MARLOW/JECOCK - Northamptonshire/Warwickshire : WIMBUSH/JUSTICE - Oxfordshire/Warwickshire : SCALES/BRIDGES/ENGLISH/JARMAN - Suffolk : GARRETT/GIBBS - Warwickshire : DEVOS - Scotland (Aberdeen)/France(Dunkerque) : MURRAY - Ireland(Down)/Scotland(Lochs) : TIGHE/TREACY - Cork Stanley Charles SCALES b.1899 - Where are you? *** Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Viktoria
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When we asked Mum what we were having to eat she invariably said "two jumps at the cupboard door and a bite of the knob" which was so daft it infuriated me. I can also remember her telling me -and I fell for it for years_ "go and stand on the front step and look for the man with as many noses as there are days in the year" I stood for hours expecting to see someone with lots of noses, I must have been very easily fooled as she only said this on New Years Eve!!!!!!!
Mum would give us a smack if we had been naughty and when she had brought tears to our eyes and we were skriking -crying to any Southerners- she would then say " shut up or I will give you something to cry for" When Dad was hungry he`d say he was" ravished" which was hungrier than famished and worse than ravenous he also described cheap jewellery as "shikeling" -sparkling and shining but I think there is a yiddish word similar in sound which means the same although Dad was not Jewish. Happy Christmas to everyone Viktoria.  cryfor
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Dancing Master
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Stop that skriking or you'll get some at to skrik for..
Liverpool has always had its own words totally different for the rest of Lancashire. Where we would say grandma it was Nin in common usage in Liverpool I believe this is from the Welsh families who settled there.
And I think the expression "Fur Coat and no knickers was common in various places , meaning all top show.
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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All RED HAT and no knickers it was in my location - London.
Definitely stop that crying, or I'll give you something to cry for.
One of my favourites, though not from my own childhood, is the call of his grandmother to a friend of mine, when he'd pick up the pet cat under the front legs, and try and "walk" it along..................
"Don't schlep the cat!"
Now that IS a Jewish expression.
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Pay, Kent. Barham, Kent. Cork(e), Kent. Cooley, Kent. Barwell, Rutland/Northants/Greenwich. Cotterill, Derbys. Van Steenhoven, Belgium/East London. Burton, East London. Wade, Greenwich/Brightlingsea, Essex.
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Olly
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Liverpool again
Lace curtains on the window, no sheets on the bed.
When I was teaching it always amazed me how many different words are used for the same thing in different locations.
Pumps, gym shoes, plimsolls, sand shoes is just one that comes to mind.
Any others?
Olly
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Bulmer Draper - Lincoln, Glasgow, Aylesbury
Bulmer - York
Draper,Keogh- Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Liverpool, Ireland
Lowe, Massey - Liverpool
Lowe - Australia
Jones, Owens - Anglesey, Liverpool
Collinson - Middlesex,Birmingham,Liverpool
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Abiam
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My "garden" by Abiam
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How about
"That's life in a blue suit!"
My OH says about life, he was in the Navy maybe it comes from there!
Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOBSON,Berks, Wilts.DOPSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Cambs
WEBB, Hatley St George, Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks, EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, South Australia, WISE, Fawley, Berks
WISE, Bray, Binfield, Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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