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Topic: Another local expression - do you have a variant? (Read 6929 times)
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mother25
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I've spent the afternoon with some very good friends, one of whom has recently had a new kitchen and bathroom installed. She is also having her front drive re-laid, so naturally enough we spoke about the cost of it all. She replied 'Hang the expense, throw the cat another kipper'  I haven't heard that for a very long time.
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buddha
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For someone who is very clever: He (she) could tell you the square root of a bicuit tin but wouldn,t know how to get into it.
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SHEFFIELD: hobson, bacon, pashley, sharman, brook(s) brooke(s), wilford, slingsby, lee, flint, fowlston(e), Foulston(e), wheatley, taylor, ward.
RAVENSTONEDALE/KENDAL: udall
MALTON: udall, ruddock, hudson
WOLVERHAMPTON/STOKE ON TRENT: brook(s), brooke(s)
DONCASTER: slingsby, bagshaw, steph(v)enson, scofield, foster, pashley, stanley.
DERBY: lee
BRADFORD: wilford
ROTHERHAM: straw, frost, shaw, higgins, fowlston(e), foulston(e), flint, pashley, hobson
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julianb
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This is fun Let's hope these phrases can survive 
Apologies if someone's covered this, but I remember (South London) my parents using "not as green as he's cabbage-looking" - meaning cleverer than you think.
In London, I remember working alongside a quite refined australian woman (a semi-professional opera singer). Occasionally she would come out with some uncharasteristic belters which didn't need any explanation:
My mouth's as dry as an arab's sandal
Made the hairs on your chest crack like stock whips!
Keep 'em coming
JULIAN
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Paul
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Moto GP commentator Charlie Cox describing the inclement weather.
This wind's strong enough to blow a dog of It's chain
Paul.
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wifeywebb
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My Mum and I have had a good giggle over this thread - it's great!!
A little one of from Wilts?? It's been used in the village I grew up in for as long as I can remember, but does get some confused looks now
Anywhen - any time, (come round anywhen)
Anywhere - where ever (it could be anywhere)
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mother25
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Yes, I have a friend who was born near Corfe Castle and 'anywhen ' was a standard reply from her 
Love this thread, it tells us a lot about local areas and the language used by our ancestors that has continued over the years.
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danuslave
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My fashion sense isn't any better now!
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A few more
going all round the five fields - not taking the direct route
furkle (possibly Bristolian) - poking around looking for something
four fifths of bugger-all - self explanatory! (and that one is within the last 10 years)
going arse over tip - to fall over (used by my grandmother who came from Co Durham)
black's white and yeller's nae colour (same grandmother) - not quite sure what this meant. Any offers?
This thread could go on forever - I hope
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cuthie
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He/She is well-oiled (West Scotland expression for pretty drunk)
If ye don't stop that girnin (crying) I'll take you up the nearest close and you'll get something to girn about. Happy to say that threat was never carried out.
Would you put that bit of wood in that hole (Mother asking someone to close the door
When very thirsty my Mother in law used to say she couldn't spit sixpence (W.Midlands)
Cuthie
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fallingonabruise
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'bring out your dead'
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I'm from west yorkshire and use these regularly,
frame y'sen - get on with it/make an effort
framing like a man wi no arms - you are useless
sat there like cheese at fourpence - not moving
i can't get on for getting off - i keep getting interrupted
wan a mi arse - useless (i have no idea what i'm actually saying, but ?)
you don't know your arse from your elbow - you are talking rubbish
you could ride bare arsed to china on that -- your knife is blunt
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Lloyd in london, Jelfs, Cheatham, Taylor, Raistrick, Knowles, Cassidy, Blackburn, Corns, Gallagher
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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This one could run and run!
Some really great sayings
Do you remember, when young, people used to write a series of letters on the back of an envelope to convey a secret message to a loved one.
I know many of them were famously a little ......well, you know what I mean, but I always loved this one
YTTDFATCCSH
Yours Till The Deserts Freeze And The Camels Come Skating Home.
aaaaaaah
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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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mother25
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Oh yes I remember those days
My hubby (then boyfriend) was in the RAF and we used to write every day. The back of our envelopes always carried the initials S W A L K....
Sealed With A Loving Kiss....how sweet was that
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IgorStrav
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Arthur Pay 1915-2002 "handsome bu**er"
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Another one from my mother -
You are going so fast, you'll meet yourself coming back!
Bev
Similar to this.....
my parents always used to say of someone quick witted that they were
"all there, and halfway back"
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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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