daft sayings

Nesh - for a sickly type who feels the cold easily. If someone doesn't believe or understand what you've just said in the East Midlands the traditional response was ,"a-^were^" with the emphasis very much on the second syllable which would be drawn out - I've never heard this anywhere else. In this case you'd also look at the speaker 'gone-out.'

We came from Worcester and my dad used to say
I've got a bone in me leg' if i wanted him to take me somewhere or 'steady past your grannys' which didn't mean anything or 'there n back to see how far it is' Or 'gone to see a man about a dog' I used to try some of these evasive things on my own girls n it seemed to make them very angry!

My DH is Welsh and when he isn’t with me he asks ‘whereby are you to?’

When we asked what we were having to eat we were told - ‘air pie’ and if I complained I had nowhere to sit my Dad would say ‘sit on your thumb’!

Been told this is N. Devon one.
He dropped apenny and it it im on tha ead

I've remembered another although it definitely is not PC & I wouldn't repeat it today.....
If I said it's not fair I'd be told
It's not right and not fair like a black man's left leg ?

Magiemaybe, love your sayings take me back to my childhood in Liverpool, I recognise them all, had forgotten some, thank you.

Dad said "FUFTB" ( full up and fit to bust) - after a big meal or "adequate sufficiencey."

"This wont get the baby a new bonnet" when there were jobs waiting to be done.

If we were messing about he would affectionally call us Mugwamp or busofan or Nincumpoop.

Charlies dead for a petticoat showing. What did your last servant die of - exhaustion, when we weren't helping. "What" made engines.

Its snowing down South, when you underskirt was showing. When we asked why "because Y's a crooked letter and you can't straighten it."

When my grandad was asked where he was going he said the Parrafin Oil shop. Years later I was in my car, with my Mum and we stopped at the lights and opposite was a Pub called The Parrafin Oil shop. The mystery was solved, I could not stop laughing.

So many of these sayings I grew up with (West Riding of Yorkshire now North Yorkshire). If a petticoat was showing it was "snowing down south".

That's pot calling kettle black

There & back to see how far it is or gone to see a man about a dog

Just a few more & yes I can often hear my DM's voice when I say things from my childhood.

Scottish Gran would always refer to dignitaries as " the high heeded (headed) yins.

My mum's favourite when we had arranged a meeting - if i get there first I'll put a brick on the wall and if you get there first you can knock it off. My timekeeping has improved ?

If we asked our mother what was for tea.
She would reply...
'A run around the table and a kick at the cat'!

Being quite tall and skinny as a teenager my father would call me a Skinny mallinky
as in..
Skinny mallinky long legs
Umbrella feet.
Went to the pictures
And could'ne get a seat.

If my children were annoying my FIL he would say..
'Why don't you both run down to Aston Cross and get me the time. (Large clock at Aston Cross in Birmingham).

If someone wore a pair of tight trousers my dad used to it looks like a couple of ferrets trying to get out of a sack.
I’m from Norfolk so always black over Will’s Mother’s . We put everything up too instead of putting away.

My Dad: about someone who was cross eyed: 'One eye going for the shopping and the other one coming home with the change'.

If I asked my mother if she would buy me something, she would always reply "wait and see as Mr Asquith said" I did not know who Mr Asquith was until much later!

If you asked my Gran where she was going or where she had been the reply was always "round Will's mother's and back again"

When we moved to the Wigan area, many years ago, I couldn't understand a word that the old people, in particular, were saying. They used such a lot of dialect words, such as "I'm fair clempt" meaning that they were hungry, that it was almost like living in a foreign country! Each little district had their own way of speaking, and people knew instantly where you came from, even if it was only a couple of miles away.
I gradually became 'tuned-in' and loved listening to th'owd fauk and their tales. Sadly, television has killed off most of the old accents and expressions.

Manchester 'Now think on"

'Got a bob on herself' meaning she was very full of herself.

Put wood in the hole - shut the door

Just thought of another one. If I kept asking "Why?" she'd reply "because the Wallypug comes from Why!"

Clever as Dick's hat band (it went twice round and tied in a bow at the back!)
Couldn't stop a pig in a poke
I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking!

All from my Yorkshire Mum

South London....
More meat on a sparrows knee cap ( somebody skinny)
What's for dinner? Bread & Poullet! (Always thought it meant pull it ?) or shit and sugar was the other one!!
If I asked why I was told 'coz cold beans ain't hot!'

My Mum used to say "A blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't see that,!" if there was a dirty mark on something. If you asked my Dad what colour something was, he would always say "Sky blue pink with a finny-addy border."

Take some 'jollup',meaning some sort of medicine.