“She looked at him gone out” - what region uses this phrase?

[Lunificent]

My friend says it all the time but I’ve never heard anyone else say it here. I just realised her parents are from Northampton. Would it be from there?

My dh has used it and he was from Northamptonshire. Like looking at you with confusion

Deffo Derbyshire!!

It means “she looked at him incredulously”

Very common here in South Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire

Common in South Yorkshire. It means 'she looked at him in a shocked/surprised way'.

Definitely not 'going out'. We like to sound our g's in Yorkshire.

Ay up me duck!

We say ‘she looked at im gone aaht’ here in t’ East Midlands. That’s Derby, Nottingham & Les-toh if yer wondrin, me duck.

Heard a lot in West Yorkshire.

Nottingham. We say it

@Linguini

Are you mishearing?

"Going" with a silent g at the end can sound like
"gon" or "goan" "gawn" in some accents.
Many people miss off the g for words ending in ING.

Definitely "gone out."

Manchester area also uses that phrase.

@PlanetNormal

Ay up me duck!

We say ‘she looked at im gone aaht’ here in t’ East Midlands. That’s Derby, Nottingham & Les-toh if yer wondrin, me duck.

Ayup mi duck

Never heard of it at all - grew up in Manchester and live in London. Sounds good though.

Do you think it came from something like ‘she looked at him as if he had gone out of his mind’?

A very common phrase in the North West

Yep I'm from South Yorkshire and its used a lot. Its sort of to look at someone in sort or suprise/puzzlement. Such as my Mum told me pineapples dont grow on trees so I looked at her gone out.

Yes, common saying here,
It means she looked at him in a state of shock, surprise, disbelief.
That is my interpretation, and l think the older generation tend to use it more.

A very common phrase in the North West

I’ve lived there all my life and never heard it once.

Ayup duck to everyone in Derbyshire (like me 😂)

In South Wales we would say, ‘looked at him gone off’ which is what I thought you meant to say.
Not heard of ‘gone out.’

@Immunetypegoblin

What does it mean?

'Gone out'

Short for: lights are out and no one's home = empty headed/brainless

To look at someone 'gone out' means to look at them as if they're an idiot

West Yorkshire too

I was brought up In Warwickshire and this was a very common saying in my Midlands family.

I married a man from Surrey and have lived here for over 20 years. My husband had never heard of it and no-one here says it or understands it.

@Motherdare

Is anyone going to explain what it means?

Just did

I’m in Yorkshire and I’ve heard it used

I’ve never heard it before but I love regional expressions. With this one, if you use it in front of someone who doesn’t know it, you might get the look it describes!

I'm in Yorkshire, we use it a lot

Ha, another of those phrases that I assumed everyone knew, and it turns out it’s regional. South Yorkshire in my case, and no, it’s not a mishearing for going out. (Which would be ‘go-in aaht’)