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You daft apeth

416 replies

Kasterborous · 30/10/2013 08:50

No, not you but I heard this phrase yesterday and haven't heard it for ages. We used to say it when anyone had done something daft, but in a lighthearted way.

Another old favourite is 'crosspatch' as in 'don't be a crosspatch' when someone is being -well - cross.

OP posts:
MyNameIsInigoMontoya · 30/10/2013 10:39

We have wittering on and headless chickens.

Kids also have to tidy up/get to bed "or there'll be trouble", thought that was fairly normal though?

ILoveAFullFridge · 30/10/2013 10:35

Dh says "You make a better door than a window" when someone gets between him and the TV. What does that mean? (I know what he means!)

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 30/10/2013 10:34

I think 'hedge-backwards' is a shortened version of 'looking like you've been pulled through a hedge backwards'.

ILoveAFullFridge · 30/10/2013 10:32

I know someone who says "standing around like leftover lemons'. No idea where it comes from, but I like it.

She also describes a bad hair day as "hedge-backwards".

TheFallenMadonna · 30/10/2013 10:30

Oops.

Our family saying is "better than a slap in the belly with a wet fish".

TheFallenMadonna · 30/10/2013 10:28

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Banono · 30/10/2013 10:27

DH says there'll be 'big trouble'.

As in, you had better tidy up that playroom or there'll be 'big trouble'.
You better do xyz or there'll be trouble.

WTAF?!? I went from being amused when he said it to wanting to say, what are you on about?
Give them a consequence, what is trouble?

DawnOfTheDee · 30/10/2013 10:26

I have an uncle who still says 'Na then' instead of hello

HaroldLloyd · 30/10/2013 10:25

Wow. US republicans.

HaroldLloyd · 30/10/2013 10:24

We had mugwumps! WTF is a mugwump.

GigiDarcy · 30/10/2013 10:22

Ooh, we use Mugwomp too but no idea where it's from. I am loving all the swings/roundabout variations.

kaytola · 30/10/2013 10:22

One of my dads favourites was 'face like a kicked in snap tin'!

diddl · 30/10/2013 10:21

Anyone else have "headless chicken" moments that were like being a "fart in a colander"??

LazyScare · 30/10/2013 10:20

I tell DS to 'Stop wittering on' when he is muttering or saying the same thing over and over.

Not sure if my dad made it up or it is one of these things noone says any more.

'Fair dos' isn't that old fashioned is it? Say and hear that all the time although I am in a part of Britain that resides 25 years in the past

GemmaTeller · 30/10/2013 10:20

'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
Skennyeyed = cross eyed

He couldn't stop a pig a in an alley - He's bow legged

I remember a conversation with my MIL in the east end of London a few years ago -

Me 'ooh Mary can I have one of these barm cakes please'?
MIL '?'
Me 'these barm cakes on the side'
MIL '?'
Me - thinks of another word....'these flour cakes'
MIL '? there's no cakes in the kitchen'
Me - thinks of another word.... 'these baps'
MIL 'what are you talking about?'
Me - picks pack up and shows her
MIL - 'oh you mean bread rolls'

Grin
ScarerStratton · 30/10/2013 10:18

It's pronounced AayyyyyRab in our family. We use loads of these, I think they must have been absorbed into our vocabulary somehow, as we are neither Northern nor from the West.

Does anyone know where Mugwomp comes from?

HaroldLloyd · 30/10/2013 10:16

Had a face like a cat licking piss off a nettle - for catsbum face

Haven't heard that in a while.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 30/10/2013 10:13

FunnysInLaJardin - I think 'all around the reekin' is actually 'all around the Wrekin' - which is a hill in the middle of Shropshire.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 30/10/2013 10:12

WhisperMen - I thought it was 'He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel' - meaning he was so bowlegged that the pig would run straight through his legs.

BoyGirlBoy3 · 30/10/2013 10:10

"Stop that horse playing", said by my dad.

I say "fair dos", if i want to make people laugh!

ScooseIsLoose · 30/10/2013 10:10

My nan used to call us tinkers if we were naughty I.e "you little tinker" or say we were bold,
My mum used to call me jelly head Hmm
My aunt had a friend who used to call everyone scone head (wtf?)

Snowflakepie · 30/10/2013 10:09

I called DD a ratbag the other day. DH was Shock for some reason. I could have used something worse IMO! We also have daps which no one else here understands.

DHs lovely grandad had many sayings, the most random was 'off we go and the colour's blue'. No idea. MIL is the master of the double entendre and has gone on record for 'going for a blow on the beach'.

I also thought of an apeth as being a large monkey. Still doesn't spoil it though!

FunnysInLaJardin · 30/10/2013 10:04

oh and my dad would call us 'cloth ears' if we didn't hear what he had said

Yamyoid · 30/10/2013 10:02

Bread cake! Not heard that before Grin

stardusty5 · 30/10/2013 10:02

I love the word 'vexed'! My nana also used to call me a fly flamer as well as a daft dapeth.

A woman i work with also likes to exclaim 'shine a light!' Instead of bloody hell or similar.

We also still call the outsode bin the Ash Bin. Sure there are more