Sayings from the past

[deptfordmarmoset]

That's just grand, and I knew a few of those too!!

Maybe it's living in London with all its incomers, but I know most of them. Not the moth one, though, or ''graff.''

 

[jefmcg]

Ditto. I recognised most of them as used by my family, and thought it was my Irish ancestry

I'm guessing "(s)he is built like a brick sh1thouse" isn't Irish.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

do you want some afters....... do you want dessert
I love diddies..........I love breasts
are you looking for agro......... are you looking for a fight
stall it, I need me graff......wait, I need to go home
was the film any use...............was the film any good
she's up the pole.....she's pregnant
Ask me arse/boll**ks; go and s***e, and don't be annoying me ..... general ways of telling someone to shut up
that was bang on..........that was perfect
I love **** in the beds...I love dandalions (edit) p i s s
jayus it's Banjaxed.....it is broken or no good
I'm going to the jacks or jaks.......I'm going to the tiolet
that was savage....that was excellent
how's the moth......... how's the wife or girlfriend
It'd freeze the balls off a brass monkey...... it's very cold
it's bucketing......... its raining heavy
that was deadly, .......that was excellent

The ones I've put in bold I have heard before, some quite commonly.

Here's my contribution:
"You're a right brivet aren't you?" - Nan on Mum's side when my brother or I were misbehaving. "Brivet" is a Shropshire word for someone who is fidgety or fiddling around with things they shouldn't be.
"Two shakes of a lamb's tail." - Grandad on Dad's side when saying something would be done quickly.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I'm guessing "(s)he is built like a brick sh1thouse" isn't Irish.

That reminds me of another of my mum's euphimisms. She'd be speaking about someone and would throw in as an aside, "... who, by the way, is nae stranger tae a bag o' chips..."


GC

 

[jefmcg]

That reminds me of another of my mum's euphimisms. She'd be speaking about someone and would throw in as an aside, "... who, by the way, is nae stranger tae a bag o' chips..."


GC

Thought the "brick sh*thouse" was more about solidity/muscle than fat.

 

[colly]

Another: Goey (Go-ee) legs...............about someone who was always twitching or bouncing their knees.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Thought the "brick sh*thouse" was more about solidity/muscle than fat.

Oh, you're right about that. It just reminded me of something else.


GC

 

[Trail Child]

You're as useless as two tits on a boar ...
You're as cold as a witch's tit ...
It's as dry as a popcorn's fart ...

 

[junglegusset]

My mums brothers were somewhat rare, if they encountered someone who they disliked they would say amongst other things 'he deserves to be shot with a ball of his own s**t' or 'he deserves to be f***ed with the rough end of a rag man' s bugle '. Our office cleaning lady us the funniest person I have ever met, when a client came into the office and asked if we had a foot pump she said 'Why? Have you got flat feet?' I cried.

 

[Smurfy]

Cheeky, young, whipper-snapper!