To ask what on earth the phrase Oi! Oi! Saveloy! means??!!!!

[StirlingWork]

I've seen it on social media and it just doesn't make any sense!

[DustyMaiden]

Hello sausage, with rhyming.

[PeskyRooks]

It's just a greeting! Some of my older relatives say this. It's no different from 'Eh up or any other regional greeting.

[VioletCharlotte]

It's just rhyming slang. Shouting 'Oi' is like 'Hey'. So 'Oi, Oi Saveloy!'

It's very laddish!

[StirlingWork]

DustyMaiden - I can safely I don't think I'd ever have cause to use it!!!!

[Rockbird]

Same sort of thing as 'see you later alligator'

[StirlingWork]

It's very laddish

I associate this phrase with the same demographic that would go for a Cheeky Nando's with the Archbishop of Banterbury and the Bantersaurus Rex/ or alternatively James Corden's character in Gavin and Stacey

[MuthaClucker]

Same sort of thing as 'see you later alligator'

Yep.

[Standupthisisnotateaparty]

I though it was a ‘dan saff’ term. I don’t know anyone who uses this term where I live.

[timeforteea]

We say that all the time round here as a joke, not serious.

[gingganggooleywotsit]

I thought it was something 'geezers' said in the 80s! Never heard it since then!

[Grumpylockeddownwoman]

Haha it’s rather “old school” really. Remember saying this at school if a “fit” bloke was around.

[ScarfLadysBag]

Haha, my best friend and I say it to each other all the time. We are boringly bourgeois.

[Sparklesocks]

It’s essentially a ‘wahey!!!!’ type exclamation. My dad (60s, SE London) says it sometimes if greeting a mate in the pub.

[DollyDoneMore]

Del Boy.

[PhewMitchew]

Haha it’s rather “old school” really. Remember saying this at school if a “fit” bloke was around.

😂

[Grumpylockeddownwoman]

Oh and am from se London

[ILikeyourHairyHands]

I believe it is a term of friendly greeting employed in the SE of England.

[BlusteryLake]

It's from Essex/Thames Estuary. Joe Wicks says it at the beginning of some of his workouts!

[Picklesprout]

Live in Essex and hear it occasionally, sometimes say it myself, it's just used in a jokey way I find but I've never really got it myself!

[StirlingWork]

Be honest can't you see 'Smiffy' from Gavin and Stacey saying this phrase! It's like it was made for him!!

[StirlingWork]

ILikeyourHairyHands - ah but is it predominantly uttered in 'RP'?

[StirlingWork]

BlusteryLake - I need to listen to some of his workouts!

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

It's the Greek translation of "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?"

I'd only ever expect to hear an extremely highbrow, very highly educated scholar quoting it.

Apparently, it's also JRM's 'safe-word' whenever his wife wants to try something new and a little more risque in the bedroom.

[Grumpos]

It’s not so much of a greeting as a bit of cheeky banter.
I wouldn’t say it to my dad instead of hello for example
You shout it at the fit lads out the top deck of a bus...

It’s a southern thing. A 90s thing.

[WeWantSweet]

What's a saveloy made out of is the question no one who's ever eaten one, wants asked or answered, lol.