I'm just popping into town to buy a Rolex Sports watch.
So I'm sitting here all maudling because of my man-cold (unable/CBA to get outside and clean my car) and am thinking (as you do) what happened to the sayings from my childhood (a more innocent time perhaps). Are they still in use? Such as...
"Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs!"
"I'm so sorry, I'm coming over all unnecessary"
"Chin up!"
"War wound!"
"Alright wack/Wacker/sausage/petal" and many other useful sayings I bet about to disappear
Last edited by Suds; 10th February 2019 at 15:28.
I'm just popping into town to buy a Rolex Sports watch.
I'm more familiar with most of those being 'Northern' sayings rather than general British? As such no, I don't hear them and haven't ever other than when I've left the South!
Please & thank you!
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I will go to the foot of our stairs.
Never in the creation of crows.
His promises are like pie crust.
I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking
"Get off there...right, don't coming running to me when you fall off and break your leg"
Light and bitter.
Wouldn't stop a pig in a poke.
Under a gooseberry bush.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
“Clockwise” Kids of today are as thick as Sh1t I’m afraid.Our future is bleak
Half of those i have never heard so i suspect that most British sayings are regional me ol' mucker.
Apparently dates from Tudor times when people threw their shite from the upstairs window into the gutter in the middle of the street. Buildings had an overhang so a lady would walk on the inside to prevent accidental shite splash. This could be one of those QI klaxon myths though.
Piss or get off the pot
If you have a black cat - he'll have one that's blacker
He's gone north (rugby)
As plentiful as pilchards
A nod is as good as a wink.
See a man about a dog
A young old boy
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Well I for one take every opportunity to use them on my kids.
If the wind changes your face will stay like that
Don't wear your coat indoors, you won't feel the benefit
Were you born in a barn?
We've picked up a few from TV as well:
The computer says no. (although this seems very recent to me, my 15 year old told us he had no idea what we were talking about).
Language Timothy!
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No idea where this little ditty is from, but it has stuck with mr since childhood.
You know what THOUGHT did. Followed a muckcart and thought it was a wedding, peed his pants and thought he was sweating.
Ark at him
She's gotta gob on her
Not heard "bent as a nine bob note" since my days in the Glasgow car market in the 70's. (The real car market that was a cattle market during the day!)
He walks like a duck, at ten to two
Little Gob.... (Rhymes with right, but it's not good)
There's nowt so queer as folk
Play the referee
She's got fireside legs (lazy housewife with bright red shins from sitting in front of the coal fire all day)
Shift your corpse.
Chop chop.
I be caddled.
He's now't but nizzletrip.
A bit black over Will's Mum's.
The doings?
Plenty of room up top
Mind the dog
Gercha
You cow son
Keep schtum
Up here for thinking down there for dancing
Oi Oi
Went out tiv the cree earlier and var nigh cowped me creels on some clarts.
F.T.F.A.
Could anyone explain the 'go to the foot of my stairs' saying as my Nan used to say this and I never knew what she meant and was too embarrassed to ask her.
Also proper cockney rhyming slang, my Mum used it all the time when I was a saucepan.
"Want some more holy ghost?" etc etc. Although usually only using the first part of of the saying like "Berk" for Berkshire hunt.
Dying out I think.
Cheers,
Neil.
alright my babber
Crafty as a cartload of monkeys
As black as hell cre'k
Well ah'll go to 'ummer
Coyle oyle
Chip oyle
There's nowt wrong wi' right folk
They'll chuck you in t' hole (Black hole of Calcutta)
Not sure whether this a UK wide saying or it whether it was localised to people I used to work with, I used to hear it a lot
"Looks like a Friday afternoon job"
Does anyone else know the meaning ?
"They all piss in the same pot" my dad always said this when talking about politicians.
'Guts for garters'/'skin you alive', 'born in a barn'/ 'put wood in hole', 'weak as watter', 'ay up me duck', 'clever as a cart load'a monkeys', 'neither use nor ornament', 'You make a better door than a window'.
Here's one in response to someone farting:
Speak up Brown, you're through.
I'll swing for you yet, you little bugger!
(N E Derbyshire circa1950 - gentle motherly explanation of the consequences of continued poor behaviour and all that that might entail).
Years ago we ( about 10 of us, extended family) went on holiday to Florida and a few of us went to a comedy improv club and the comedians asked for a phrase they had to act out to the other comedians, my brother in law came up with ‘it’s black over Wills mothers’ which of course they had never heard before, it was pretty funny watching them try to act it out.
At least ‘thick as mince’ is unlikely to die out as long as we have the Bear pit. 😁
Cheers..
Jase
to swear blind to, something or that what you claimed was the truth.
'I'd rather feed yer fer a week than a month boy', 'summat' my grandad would often say bless him, but does anyone else recall hearing it or was it just a personal saying?
It was explained to me as most gents were right handed and so walked to the right of the lady in order to be able to draw their sword without the lady getting the way.
Worked in the mining industry for 30 years and have come across a great many of these sayings due to the migration of a workers, laughed at the mention of please thank you and excuse me, unfortunately it is true.
"Sticks like s**t to a blanket"
"If you don't go bed the nine o'clock horses will get you"
Not that old, but I like...
You can't polish a turd.
Rolling a turd in glitter.
A face like a bag of spanners.