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[Old Speckled Hen]

I heard, "like getting feathers off a cat" on the radio this morning.

That's a new one on me.

Have you any local sayings or strange superstitions?

[Cooks]

'it's not over until the fat last sings' (referring to some opera singer I believe)

 

'Gordon Bennett!' (where did that come from??)

 

'tickled pink' (I like this one so I had to add this)

 

I'll have to think of others

[Looney]

Instead of "that went down like a lead balloon" I heard someone say "that went down like a poo in a punch bowl"! Made me giggle!

[..lay a little egg for me]

I'm not sure of local sayings but I've always loved:

 

"He's a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic"

 

 

And of course there are loads of others on the same theme:

 

The lift doesn't go all the way to the top floor

The lights are on but "Ooops, word censored!"ody's home

Not the sharpest tool in the box

etc etc

[stoice]

I always thought 'mad as a box of frogs' was a strange saying

and love 'rarer than rocking horse poo'

 

Not sure they're local sayings though

 

I always seem to hear 'innit' in all the wrong places, and 'd'ya know what I mean?' after every sentence - is that an Essex thing?

[dancing cloud]

One of my favourites, along the not-great-but-it'll-do theme is "there's only so far you can polish a toad" Not sure where it came from, but my staff now use it as well.

[Old Speckled Hen]

My husband sometimes says to me, "Stop standing there like cheese at fourpence"

I have heard that a "bleating sheep loses it's bite" and some of the older folk up here still count one to ten as, "yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp, sethera, methera, hovera, dik."

[Egluntyne]

"yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp, sethera, methera, hovera, dik."

 

Not heard that for years! Isn't it to do with counting sheep?

[theherd123]

Oh now i come into my own as a Northern Lass!

 

'What tha doin' lad?'

'Nowt as queer as folk'

'Put wood in't 'ole'

'Yur nesh lad!'

 

[Egg Lou]

"rare as hens teeth!"

 

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I like

 

What's for you won't go by you

 

and

 

There's a Jock for every Jean

 

[Cooks]

funny my heads gone blank and I hear them all the time..

[Tiggy]

I've lived & worked in the Blackcountry for years & they says the oddest things, I've made a real fool of my self more than once by misunderstanding what I've been told

 

an old lady once told me " I cor goo t ground and I wants to" I thought she wanted to die and tried to find out why she felt this way, she looked at me in horror told me I was stupid, all she wanted was a laxative because she was constipated

[Olly]

A couple my mum used to use ...

 

If you said something was the right thing because you'd found it in the place where they were usually kept, she'd retort "And if the cat has kittens in the oven, it doesn't make them biscuits!"

 

And if my dad came home with something she'd consider unnecessary, usually another lawnmower, she used to say 'Hmm, we needed that about as much as a toad needs a side-pocket'.

 

We still call useless bits of toot 'sidepockets for toads'!

[Mrs Frugal]

I like

 

What's for you won't go by you

 

My grandma used to say that all the time and it's something I've always lived by too. It's so true!

[aaronmusgrove123]

my dad always says this when he is hot .... 'im swearing like a fat lass in a disco' hahahhaha

Aaron

[Lewis]

I've lived & worked in the Blackcountry for years & they says the oddest things, I've made a real fool of my self more than once by misunderstanding what I've been told

 

an old lady once told me " I cor goo t ground and I wants to" I thought she wanted to die and tried to find out why she felt this way, she looked at me in horror told me I was stupid, all she wanted was a laxative because she was constipated

My mom used to be a nurse in the black country. An old woman had "fallen off her perch", mom thought she'd fallen over, so asked did she need any help/was she ok.

They meant she had died

[Lewis]

my dad always says this when he is hot .... 'im swearing like a fat lass in a disco' hahahhaha

Aaron

I like:

"I'm sweating like a pig in a bacon factory"

[Ain't Nobody Here]

FIL always says "it's like Aikey Fair here" (if somewhere is busy). We always say that too now .

[KAZAROO]

"Your not so green; as cabbage looking"- your not as thick as you look!

 

My hubby thought I made it up- then a lady at his work said it to him

[Looney]

My Dad always wants to bend my lughole (ask my advice) about things. He also used to tell me to shut my fizzog!

 

Where I grew up people frequently would say "it's a lazy wind today" meaning it was a strong wind (lazy as it couldn't be botherd to go around you so cuts straight through).

[bronze]

"yan, tan, tethera, tethera, pethera, pimp, sethera, methera, hovera, dik."

 

Not heard that for years! Isn't it to do with counting sheep?

 

 

Yes it is. It comes from the Norse and they used similar down on Romney marsh too.

I seem to remember a wethera teg is a three year old yew who has had a lamb. Obviously the numbers have varoed slightly according to region.

 

Its not too disimilar in feel to the Welsh either - un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump, chwech, saith, wyth, naw

[Vicky40]

My Dad has lots of Yorkshire sayings:

 

"That beats hen racing." (to describe something out of the ordinary)

"Do you see me looking at you" (to get your attention)

"Hey you with the hair on" (also to get your attention)

"You're a long time dead" (enough said)

 

When you were feeling off colour my Mum used to say:

 

"oh my belly, oh my bum, oh my finger, oh my thumb!"

[chelsea]

"Im from Devon, born and bred, strong in the arm - thick in the head"!!

[Janty]

My M-I-L tells miserable people to 'go slap yourself and get happy'.