Family sayings

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mr_hippo

Living Legend & Old Fart
As a split-off from the rhyming slang thread, are there any family or local sayings that you use. I tried this on a different forum and was surprised to see how many were not local/family but nationwide, I've already mentioned Gran's 'blue pencil'. Now for:-
"I'll go the the foot of our stairs" - "Well. I am surprised!"
"Go and play with Roberts's kids" - "Get out of my sight"
"It's worse than Carney's Lodging House in here" - "It's very noisy/untidy"
I never did find out where the Roberts family lived nor the location of Carney's Lodging House".
 

got-to-get-fit

New Member
Location
Yarm, Cleveland
im going to turn me bike around - im going to the toilet

you cleppet - you idiot

dead mans fingers - undercooked sausages, usually found in supermarket deli's

spit and a shave and a dig in the grave - spit-obvious, shave obvious, dig in the grave is to hack up all the phlegm from the back of your throat and deposit in the sink - this spit shave, dig in grave combo is usually mentioned prior to morning ablutions.

Up the dancers - up the stairs, dont ask why, i dont know!
 

stevenb

New Member
Location
South Beds.
Keith Oates said:
thick as two short planks = not very bright

Used that one many a time.

'The lights are on but nobody is home'
'Sandwich short of a picnic'
'A can short of a 6 pack'

Each used to say 'Not very Bright' :tongue:
 
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mr_hippo

mr_hippo

Living Legend & Old Fart
got-to-get-fit said:
dead mans fingers - undercooked sausages, usually found in supermarket deli's
Compare with 'widow's memories'
Up the dancers - up the stairs, dont ask why, i dont know!
Mum used that and I've no idea either!
'Stephen' - a hot water geyser. Mum had one over the kitchen sink and when it boiled steam came out of the top; When one of my brothers, then aged about 5, saw the steam he shouted "Mum, it's steaming!" She misheard it as "Mum, it's Stephen".
 

longers

Legendary Member
"On the piano with my clogs" - what we were told when we asked about the whereabouts of pretty much anything.

"Who's she, the cats mother?" - if we didn't use someones name and said "she" instead.

"You haven't even seen the beef, let alone smelt it" - my gran when she thought we were getting uppity.

"I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking" - gran again.
 

simonali

Guru
Round 'ere in Wilts, they don't say 'where is it?' but 'where's it to?'. Always makes me chuckle!
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
As a child when going on a trip in the car and asking where to:
"To see a dog about a man".

I still use that one occasionally with my kids.
 
"Upstairs" - We lived in a bungalow, so used upstairs when refferring to something that was totally lost in the house, so lost that only a mother can find it. As in "Muuuuuuuuum. My watch is upstairs. Can you help me find it please?"

"Tripple-S" - Sh*t, Shower, Shave
 

Plax

Guru
Location
Wales
My Nain was rather partial to saying things like;
shoot bananas = a swear word, she was very good at making t hem up.
Isn't life monotonous = I'm bored

My dad quite frequently went to "See a man about a dog" = mind your own business.
 

domtyler

Über Member
"Right you two, up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire"

*Shudders as a shiver goes down his spine*
 

domtyler

Über Member
"Mum, what's for tea?"

"Bread and if it..."


WTF??

I think it means if it comes it does, if it doesn't it doesn't.
 
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