Owd Sayings

[Pudsey Bear]

I get "you're a bit late with your barrow " from Liz ???

 

[Winks]

When getting the scratchy flannel treatment behind the ears it was,''Yer bloody picked in'' or ''Y'could plant a row of carrots in here''. Think ears must have been something special in my family. My uncle Ron only ever called me ''Bugger lugs''

Cheers

H

 

[Robmac]

"I'll teach you to.........."

As Dave Allen once said, if you've already done something, you don't really need teaching how to do it!

 

[time4t]

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs,
Not got two ha'pennies to scratch his ass with,
Picky up out the stingers,
I'll take my hand off the side of your face me'lad,
Take your hands out your pockets & try!
Ship shape & Bristol fashion.

Phill

 

[Carrerasax]

M in law still uses “wind cheater”!!!!

 

[guerdeval]

In the black country any approaching rain or thunder clouds would exact " It's black over Bills Mothers" , God knows who Bill was or where his Mother lived for that matter.

 

[Lorraine]

My Dad used to say that too and he was a Londoner... same ships maybe He used a lot of cockney rhyming slang as well...
"Go on up the apples to bed"
"It's cold out there you'll need yer titfer"
"Give us a tune on the old Joanna"
"Comb yer barnet"
"Brush yer Hamsteads"
"Nice cup 'o Rosie Lee"

Mum used to use those daft sayings that make no sense... and no, she was nothing like as stern as these make her sound! She was lovely
"Don't come running to me if you fall and break your leg"
"Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about"

Then there was the classic... "Take your coat off or you'll not feel the benefit later"

When you say "Go on up the apples to bed ...... my Nan used yo say up the dancers
Others

Well i'll go to our foot of stair

I'll knock you for six

 

[Lorraine]

If we needed a wash as kids we were, “Black as the hobs of hell”

Cheers

H

Mine was black as coal

 

[Lorraine]

Let’s have a shufti .... let me have a look. An expression used in Liverpool, shufti being the word for ‘look’ in Arabic, presumably used becaused of all the foreign sailors coming to the city.

shufti was always used in my house

 

[Lorraine]

When getting the scratchy flannel treatment behind the ears it was,''Yer bloody picked in'' or ''Y'could plant a row of carrots in here''. Think ears must have been something special in my family. My uncle Ron only ever called me ''Bugger lugs''

Cheers

H

It was grow potatoes in my house, and the term bugger lugs was used

 

[Lorraine]

In the black country any approaching rain or thunder clouds would exact " It's black over Bills Mothers" , God knows who Bill was or where his Mother lived for that matter.

Never heard that saying before now

 

[Lorraine]

M in law still uses “wind cheater”!!!!

I have heard that saying

 

[Lorraine]

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs,
Not got two ha'pennies to scratch his ass with,
Picky up out the stingers,
I'll take my hand off the side of your face me'lad,
Take your hands out your pockets & try!
Ship shape & Bristol fashion.

Phill

The second and last I have never heard of

 

[Lorraine]

"I'll teach you to.........."

As Dave Allen once said, if you've already done something, you don't really need teaching how to do it!

Nice one ....... to true

 

[Lorraine]

Some would say if break your leg don’t come running to me!

I'll always remember that one

 

[Lorraine]

Some would say if break your leg don’t come running to me!

I'll always remember that one

 

[Lorraine]

Theirs nowt as queer as folk
Every mickel makes a muckle
This gora face like a wet weekend
Berra getta a wash tha looks like this bin playing int coil oil
Any more lip and thal get back o my hand

Only heard the first one

 

[Lorraine]

Yer brew's mashin
I'm chuffed t'bits wi that
Ahm fair to middlin
Where's there's muck there's brass
If tha does ow't for now't do it for thissen

Not heard the first and last

 

[Lorraine]

It`ll end in tears.

I definitely remember this one

 

[Robmac]

........Face like a chewed toffee.