Owd Sayings

[Lorraine]

My Nan use to use some strange saying's that are not heard of now she worked in a cotton mill in Lancashire

She would say GO AND RUN UP A TIN WHISTLE AND SHOW YOU AR.E TO EVERY HOLE
Our cat in it's later years would be going in and out to use the toilet, she would say IF YOU DON'T STOP GOING IN AND OUT I'LL CHOP YOU TAIL OFF YOUR AR.E
These were just some off the things she use to say
If she wanted us (when my siblings and myself where young)keep away from something she would threaten us with OWD NIC it worked
I never remember my mum saying anything different

Please let me have any of the sayings you were brought up with, maybe I have heard them from my Nan

 

[The laird]

You’ll get the weight o my hand son

 

[The laird]

You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face my lad

 

[jeffmossy]

Owd Nick is coming for you

 

[trevskoda]

Wheist you tounge/keep quiet, or your tounged to the arse like a trumpet/you talk to much.

 

[trevskoda]

il tan your ar-e lad or have not seen them since leather bum died, who ever he was.

 

[yorkslass]

I'll go to t'foot of ower stairs.

Ow much?????

Fair t'middlin.

 

[Wully]

Hod yer weisht——be quite.
Yerr a blether—— talk too much.
It’s giy dreech——-looks like rain.
Awa an birry yer heed——stop talking nonsense.
Better Pull yer breeeks up—— get you’re act together

 

[Lorraine]

You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face my lad

that was a quote always used to my siblings and myself

 

[saxonborg]

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.

 

[Lorraine]

I'll go to t'foot of ower stairs.

Ow much?????

Fair t'middlin.

I only know the first one & last one
But I have heard the second one recently from slider

 

[oppy]

If you break yer leg, I'll bloody murder you, my gran when I was learning to ride a bike, and I've still never broken my leg, other bits, but no legs

 

[Winks]

From the days of working with an ex 'Tiffy' when doing an apprenticeship at an MOD gun range ...
''Fits like cocks in ladies'' for a well fitted component on a breech block.
''Slack as a prick in a shirt sleeve'' For the opposite case.
''Don't teach your father to f**k'' If you overstepped the mark.

Cheers

H

 

[Jeanette]

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

 

[Minisorella]

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.

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"

 

[Molly 3]

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

 

[Allen]

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

 

[Wooie1958]

It`ll end in tears.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

When asking where something was I got "up in Annies room behind the clock" never heard it anywhere else.

I though Mr Google might know https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-up-in-Annies-room-behind-the-clock-mean

 

[Winks]

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

Cheers

H