Sayings from the past

[User482]

When asked what was for tea, my mother would reply variously:-
'A walk round the table.
'Bread and pull it.' (Poulet)
's*** with sugar on!'

The last one was always said when she had been asked about tea by every member of the family in turn.

My grandad used to say that. I never did know what he meant.

 

[ColinJ]

Blind scouse: a dish similar to scouse but without meat

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When did we cyclists stopped talking about crossbars and double clangers?

I've no idea what the dish called scouse is!

I still occasionally call a top tube a crossbar, but 'correct' myself. I remember people talking about 'double clangers' but never used the phrase myself.

 

[ColinJ]

'My round', as uttered by me!

(Even before I got ill, I very rarely went to the pub in recent years because it got so expensive. At £3+ a pint, there is no way that I can afford to buy rounds.)

 

[Aperitif]

My grandad used to say that. I never did know what he meant.

Idly browsing - as one does - I came across this explanation of 'bread and pullit' (I supposed I wasn't convinced by 'poulet'...)
Norfolk Dialect Here.

 

[Minotier]

My mum God bless her, who would have been 93 now, used to say;
After getting a blunt knife out.'' I could ride bare backside to Nottingham on that!''
On feeling a bit frail in the morning. '' Feels like t'old man's shook his spade at me today''.
On bumps in the night.'' Dead un's won't hurt ya lad, it's them that're alive tha has to worry about!''
On miserable folk. '' She wouldn't laugh if cat's backside were on fire''.

 

[Cheddar George]

I'm just off to see a man about a dog.

 

[mr_hippo]

I've no idea what the dish called scouse is!

Scouse is a lamb or beef stew, not disimilar to Irish stew'.Also related to Lancashire hot pot without the potato or piecrust topping.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The Aged P's parents spoke a bizarre household hybrid of pure Geordie and Pitmatic (which they always called pitmatical) Most of what they said was therefore incomprehensible. Especially when it included gutteral R's.

 

[Globalti]

In our house going to the bathroom was called going to see George. The name Geroge has never seemed right to me since I was a child.

 

[ColinJ]

Scouse is a lamb or beef stew, not disimilar to Irish stew'.Also related to Lancashire hot pot without the potato or piecrust topping.

Ah, so 'blind scouse' is basically a veggie stew! I've been eating a lot of blind scouse without even realising it. (In fact, I had 'angry blind scouse' last night - a curried blind scouse with lots of chillies, ginger and garlic added! )

 

[ColinJ]

In our house going to the bathroom was called going to see George. The name Geroge has never seemed right to me since I was a child.

The name 'Geroge' doesn't seem right to me either - I'd try 'George'!

 

[Hitchington]

Not really a saying but my Granddad (a Yorkshireman) used to pronounce the word vegetables as "veg-ger-ta-balls". This used to fascinate me as a child.

Although some of the other things he would come out with are probably a bit too racist for a family forum like this.

 

[User482]

Idly browsing - as one does - I came across this explanation of 'bread and pullit' (I supposed I wasn't convinced by 'poulet'...)
Norfolk Dialect Here.

Cheers! My Grandad was a Londoner through and through, so obviously not just a Norfolk saying.

A "pullet" is a young hen, and derives from the same Latin root as "poulet". So it might be right after all.

 

[Alan Frame]

"Cheap at half the price" always used to confuse me, 'cos of course it would be at half price! Surely ought to be "cheap at twice the price", or maybe that was just my parents.

And why would anyone express surprise by going to the foot of the stairs ?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I used to work with a really nice old guy who had a great many sayings, most of which I've forgotten. I do remember him once describing the appeal of of an actress he liked (might have been Joan Blondell) in the following terms:

"Thon lassie gi'es me an awfy tightness in ma breeks."​

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