You daft apeth

Oh and up thread I read as Na then being used as a greeting...I do that sometimes to. Na then..
How does? Or how ya diddling?

I still do use Daft Apeth. My mum used to call me Fanny Adams as a kid and db was Our Horace .

Rare as rocking horse shit, gi the dog a bone, you look a right bobby dazzler and if thee had half a brain tha'd be dangerous - all these were used regular as well as loads of others on here. If I'm honest I still use loads of them.

I was in my mid 20's before I even realised mardy was a regional thing!

Stupid phone! Sorry.

Smack in the eye pie for dinner

Go and play on the M4

Go and count grass

All my charming dad's replies to childlike enquiry.

Smack in the eye pie for dinner

Go and play on the M4

Go and count grass

All my charming dad's replies to childlike enquiry.

In Manchester one of Lewises was a prostitute because the Ladies used to gather in the archade next to the shop.

You could have said 'hows tha doin' as well to be more northern

I use 'apeth' too, and mither
I actually said "eh up" to someone the other day. Made me laugh at myself. Could I be any more northern?!

I'm from oop north and DH from the east end, sometimes I come out with these phrases just to wind him up even after 20 years

DH says 'as black as newgates knocker'

Many of my friends' parents used to say "Who do you think we are? Rothschilds?" whenever kids left lights on or did other wasteful things.

Oh my giddy aunt, I'll go to the foot of my stairs if I haven't thought of another couple!

I'm looking at you all a bit old fashioned at all these memories. BTW, my hands are filthy, as black as nookers knocker because I've been messing around from arsehole til breakfast time cleaning up.

I haven't a cat in hell's chance of getting anything done but, as my greatnan would have said, fiddlesticks to it ducks!

Good at least it's a good meaning!

No, I've just looked it up. It is an old naval term, but it gave its name to chop sticks, as the Chinese seemed to eat so rapidly with them!

I'd completely forgotten about the label one Laquila my Dad used to say that all the time! Though he said 'I don't know the labels dropped off'

Orangesanddemons I've a feeling 'chop chop' might have come from when they used to execute people by beheading them. Don't know for sure but it wouldn't surprise me.

Apeth I think you're right about a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. And another one from my dad (said in response to me saying 'I thought etc etc..") - "You know what thought did?? Followed a muck cart and thought it was a wedding! Thought once when he should have thought twice!"

Also, in response to being asked what you were looking at - "I don't know - the label's fallen off"

I remember "bobbins" from my time in Manchester. Meaning not all with it, eg, he's bobbins.

Also where did Chop chop meaning to hurry up come from?

Just remembered my Mum's been known to say that a man's trousers were too tight by saying that they were 'so tight, you could see his religion'. or !

Yep all those are familiar Hushabyelullaby! The accent on cow is as I remember too!

I remember 'bent as a nine bob note' as being more not legal/criminal rather than gay though? Unless it was different in east and north London perhaps? There were other words used for gay or bent was just used on its own. I have certainly used it in the not legal sense even though I don't remember using pre decimal money and my Mum still says 'what's that in old money' when faced with metric measurements!

It seems that a few words of the gay slang Polari made it into the general slang as well, I use 'troll' meaning 'to walk about' rather than the common Mumsnet meaning which I must have picked up from my family as I've always used it ever since I can remember.

Wearers of trousers at half mast used to be asked if their trousers had had an argument with their shoes or socks.

Natasha we're originally from N London and my mum always used to use the word Cow son (in her accent it was 'Caaaaa....son'). It must be a Londoner thing because I heard Chas n Dave singing 'Rabbit' not long ago and there's a line in that that goes 'gitcha (get you) cowson'.

Bob's your uncle (which later on also had 'and Fanny's your aunt' added on to it.

'Gotta see a man about a dog' - i.e do something

'Don't get your knickers in a twist' - don't get worked up

This is hideously discriminatory but a lot of people seemed to use 'bent as a nine bob note' i.e. gay

I don't know if it has been mentioned but I often say "Where do you think you are, Butlins?" to the DDs if they ask for something perfectly reasonable ie a biscuit.

"Their budgie has died" - wear trousers that are too short, ie, you're wearing your budgies trousers.

"Worky ticket" - child being a little annoying

"Little horror bag" - as above

"As black as a yard up a pig's arse." When I was little I thought they meant yard as in enclosed space at the back of a house. I wondered how you'd get one up a pig's arse. And how hard the pig would struggle.