You daft apeth

"I also say "get a wiggle on" which comes from my dad."

I always thought it was "get a wriggle on".

Did anyone else, on asking for something like a drinks get the reply "Yes, and if you get me a bucket of sand, I'll sing you The Desert Song"? (Meaning you are asking for too much.)

The Desert Song was a musical starring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddie, with the famous song of the same title. I used to be able to sing it - Saturday afternoons always had a film on BBC2. There was another musical too, with the song by them too starting "When I'm calling youuuuuuuu-oooooo-uuuuuu-oooooo-uuuuuu-oooooooo-oooooo"

Bugger, now that one's stuck in my head!

I've remembered another - 'he/she could talk the hind leg off a donkey!'

Oh and "it's brass monkeys" when it's cold.

'were you born in a barn? ' = shut the door
'put t' wood int' hole' = shut the door

Creating / skryking / blubbing = crying

He skens like a basket of whelks = He's cross eyed

All those ^

'how atty?' As a greeting.

What do you know, owt or nowt?

You make a better door than a window

Put a coat on you'll catch your death

Mummypig the 'more tea Vicar?' phrase refers to the idea of covering up the fart/burp/embarrassing noise by quickly making conversation/providing a distraction. It stems back to the day when entertaining the vicar, in the drawing room, with the best china cups dontchaknow, required very best behaviour, and to make bodily noises was Not Good. If you burped/farted in front of family, presumably that was OK . . .

Loving some of these. I'm also a Midlands girl. We had 'blarting' for crying too, I think. And no-one has yet mentioned it being "black over Bill's mother's" - meaning that bad weather is approaching.

More recently, I had a friend who would describe someone as being 'as useful as an astray on a motorbike' and 'as organised as a box of frogs', both of which love.

"Got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning" = get over the mood there's no reason for it.

I REALLY got up on the wrong side this morning.

I use a lot of these. Must be getting old

Also, since having the DCs, have taken to saying 'oh, for crying out loud,' and 'for Pete's sake,' when previously more earthy language would have been employed.

LOL @ your bread roll chat with MIL Gemmateller!

Round my way (east mids) everyone calls them cobs. I once offered a visiting child a "bread roll" and she genuinely didn't know what I meant!

Look at you gone out is a good Derbyshire saying. A mate of mine said it one when working in London and they, well, looked at her gone out!

Reading his thread has made me chuckle...

DM says, "standing around like piffy on a rock bun" (never understood where it came from).

Also, "mardy bum" (never heard anybody else use that one until the Arctic Monkeys).

"Dragged through a hedge backwards", for scruffy hair/clothes.

Does anybody else's family use, "agate" (instead of, "said", eg. "He was agate that he wished he'd stayed at the party"), or, "happen" (instead of, "perhaps")?

I didn't know it was a full rhyme, I doubt my nan does either. I shall have to tell her.

We always used to ask how "don't care was made to care" and she would say "a bunch of fives"!

We also use:
A fly in the ointment.
A right pickle
Like a rat up a dirty drain

I've heard lots of these and love them!

An old colleague of mine says "she used to chew bread for our ducks" which you said when you had never heard of someone.

I think it was specific to his family but I rather like it.

I also say "get a wiggle on" which comes from my dad.

LOL @ bomsytit

knapp My dad is always accusing people of rabbiting on or if he wants us to shut up will say "yeah, yeah, rabbit, rabbit". Doesn't surprise me its Chas & Dave. My grandparents love them and we're long time spurs fans.

Oh yes Tig, and to complete the rhyme:

Don't care was made to care
Don't care was hung
Don't care was put in the pot
Until he was done!

Not to mention:

Little children, do not let your angry passions rise
Just double-up your little fists and black each others' eyes.

said by my mum and I always thought it was daft us telling us to fight!

I nearly died with the recent corrie story line "play the white man" my mum always said it, the context being "behave" for her, I didn't click as a child it was racist

LOftyjen - I don't know where I got this particular one from, but I talk about the colour 'skybluepink with a finny haddock border'!

Kikithecat - my granny used to make a pair of sailor's trousers out of blue sky! Must be a regional variation.

re 'Mugwump' or 'mugglewump' - my mother used this alot when we were kids.The only other reference I ever saw to it was in Roal Dahl's The Twits and I think Charlie and Choc Factory ( when reading to dd). So looks like JK Rowling may have it from there? But doesn't explain my mother using it as her use pre-dates Roald Dahl's books.

Like you mummypig my mother used to say 'choke up chicken'. She also used 'mithered' alot. She came from Cheshire and would be very snobby about some of my father's Manchester phrases such as 'skriking' for crying and 'kecks' for pants.
There is one phrase of hers which I have never heard anywhere else and she claims was used by her father - ''powfagged'' meaning very tired. Anyone else's family use this one ?

My friend says 'like a tit in a trance' - I had completely forgotten that one - thanks Tig!

My dad use to come out with some very random things, think many of them were naval slang. A few of my favourites were:

• "You've got your arse in gear and brain in neutral" (when daydreaming & walking).

• You lie like a hairy egg

• to have "a face like 10ft of road up" (looking grumpy/unhappy).

He would also talk of crocodilapigs, and his favourite colour was skyblue pink with purple dots. Sadly, he died 10yrs before the birth of his 1st grandchild (my DD), otherwise she'd be learning all these phrases directly from Dad.

Am teaching her that if her belly button gets unscrewed her bum will fall off though!

I used to be told I had "more rabbit than Sainsbury's" when I was wittering on. Most surprised to find it was in a Chas & Dave song many years later!
There's also more x "than you can shake a stick at".
It is scary when you hear your own parents.

Also we've always said "tit in a trance", its my DMs favourite saying.

My nan says "Don't care was made to care"

"Not enough (blue in the sky) to make a Dutchman's trousers.

Blimey O'Riley as an exclamation of shock or exasperation. Wonder where that came from?
Pot calling kettle black Still use from time to time.
I use born in a barn all the time
As much use as a chocolate teapot

Loads of these were part of mu growing up.

Also used to hear a lot on Corrie "they're livin' over t'brush" or "she were born on t'wrong side o't'blanket!"