Know any good regional/national expressions?

[Haitch]

@User13710

Can't tell hay from a bull's foot - Hasn't got a clue.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/POWYS/2000-04/0955035498:
I recalled an old saying "he can't tell hay from a bull's foot".
(Joke - a bull being the sign for Hereford). Add to which, I think the post
code for Hay on Wye is a Hereford one

 

[Oldbloke]

As flat/cold as a witch's tit....

 

[Large]

In south Wales a "hobble" is not, as it is elsewhere, a walk with a limp, but a cash-in-hand bit of work.

e.g.

"He's hobbling down the playing fields, cutting the grass"

"Landed" means very pleased. "I've just won the lottery; I'm landed" Etymology is, I think, from the landed classes having more than the plebs.

"What's your (h)amster?" - What is the time? "Amser" is the Welsh word for "time"

"Taking a flyer" is used by taxi drivers who pick up fares off the street, between scheduled pick-ups.

 

[mybike]

.....pig in a passage is our version.

My wife says entry - all much of a muchness.

 

[MrPie]

Glaswegian I used to work with came away with....'as cold / black as a witche's t!t''.
US chums have some great ones: this very mornin i heard 'As much use as a pack of monkeys trying to feck a football'

 

[gbb]

We were just talking about regional words with the MIL and FIL, they said how they couldnt stand the greeting...'nah then youth'which we often heard (and probably used as teenagers) in Bingham, Notts.
She said it uses to annoy her, hearing an aged man greeting another aged man in the street with 'nah then youth'

 

[Oldbloke]

I worked with an American who used this for someone keeping quiet in meetings...

He couldn't say 5hit even if he had a mouthful.

 

[MrPie]

Heard another one today........so disgusting it would knock a vulture of a guts wagon. Plus, the obligatory 'weyl ahl be dubble dipped 'n dawg shyit'

 

[captain nemo1701]

When emerging from a taxi or friends car in Bristol, the customary thing to say is, "Cheers drive". Which leads me on to a theory about the 80's Bond theme Living Daylights:
'Hey Drive, where we goin?' is the opening line. Obviously written by a Bristolian.

 

[summerdays]

When emerging from a taxi or friends car in Bristol, the customary thing to say is, "Cheers drive". Which leads me on to a theory about the 80's Bond theme Living Daylights:
'Hey Drive, where we goin?' is the opening line. Obviously written by a Bristolian.

Or bus!

 

[Cubist]

Tits up is simply a coarser version of belly up... meaning dead, as in a dead fish floats belly up. It's evolved to mean something that's gone horribly wrong.

Great expression round here to describe someone who thinks he's god's gift to women: "He's leet geen "

 

[Cubist]

Oh, and a great one for someone who is flustered
"I don't know whether my arse is punched, drilled, or countersunk."

 

[swee'pea99]

A cracker from NZ, on the Cricket World Cup just now - a massive 6, bouncing off the roof..."That one's in a cab and heading for the airport!"