"And she's no better than she should be..."

[Pan]

Please settle a row with colleagues. We are having a debate/throwing things at each other re the use of this saying...some say it doesn't/ never has been in use.

Anyone heard of it....a Corrie/northern type thing??

[cornsilk]

Never heard of it and I'm a Northern gal. Go on then, where have you heard it?

[NoBiggy]

"She is no better than she should be."
Henry Fielding, ( 1707-1754 ): The Temple Beau, (1730 ), act iv. sc. 3.

According to t'internet.

[TaLcYonHerTodd]

uuuuh?

oi never heard of it!

That's not a lot of help is it?

[TaLcYonHerTodd]

What NoBiggy says

[Beenleigh]

I've heard of it, not used it, but deffo heard of it! I'm from Derbyshire btw

[Pan]

IMPRESSED!! Biggy!!

Some of us remeber it years ago, and others deny it's existence.....things got a little ahem, tense. We were very distracted today..

[madamez]

I know the phrase, it's northern in origin and a bit outdated - usually carrying connotations of a woman who looks 'respectable' but likes sex.

[Pan]

will google and print it.

and waft round under particular people's noses.

[Pan]

that was how I remember it, M.

it means "she is behaving like a trollop, but then she would wouldn't she?"

[NoBiggy]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=46cwOX5Z3rg

1.15 in.

[TaLcYonHerTodd]

lolo @ trollop

[Pan]

Biggy - how the...what the...h-h-hhow did you come up with that?? Incontrovertible evidence.....[breathless admiration emocion]

[snice]

Am surprised at comments-I thought this was a well known phrase throughout northern England.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

Not just northerrn parrts eitherr

[Pan]

well, the main protagonists are mancunian women who sneered a little when I said this phrase, in jest, about someone...some said "yep"..other's got all exclusive and sneered a little more...

[bossybritches]

Has to be said with a sneer & hitch of ample bosom under pinny though!

a la Les Dawson!

[Iota]

I'm a southerner and I know this expression