“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?

We say this - staffs/Cheshire border

Derbyshire - I said it to a Londoner once and he looked at me gone out.

How does it fit into a narrative though? Can someone give me an example of that?
Something like:
The view from Scafell was breathtaking. Yet when Bob muttered, "Damn, I've left the flask and sandwiches in the boot...", Sue looked at him gone out?
I don't get when you'd say it.

I've lived all over the north west and it's really common.

Spring Bank Holiday is the name for what used to be Whitsun I think.

I've lived in the NW all my life and NEVER heard that! And my gran trots out all the strange & old fashioned gems at 90!

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie

Derbyshire - I said it to a Londoner once and he looked at me gone out.

😂 great example

W Yorks, 'gone out' is a common saying round these particular parts (no, assure you we're not mishearing it )

Our first summer hols would be Wakes week/ Wakes fortnight.

From Leicestershire. Yes, I'm familiar with the phrase meaning 'to look at someone/something in surprise/amazement'.

@YouWereGr8InLittleMenstruators

How does it fit into a narrative though? Can someone give me an example of that? Something like: The view from Scafell was breathtaking. Yet when Bob muttered, "Damn, I've left the flask and sandwiches in the boot...", Sue looked at him gone out? I don't get when you'd say it.

Your example doesn't work.

You'd say it when somebody is looking at you as if you've gone totally bonkers.

I told Bob I was thinking of getting my left tit tattooed with Morrissey's face, and he looked at me gone out.

Thanks @KirkstallAbbess

I was brought up in Coventry and definitely use and have heard the phrase. My husband, from around Evesham knew what it meant but doesn’t use it and says it’s not used there!

I'm in the NW and haven't ever heard anybody say this. Wouldn't have had a clue what it meant!

Husband is from West Yorkshire and frequently uses it.

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie

Derbyshire - I said it to a Londoner once and he looked at me gone out.

😂 Thanks for explaining

When I broke my ankle, a northern friend asked "have you got a pot on it". I was baffled.

It's said in Nottinghamshire (although I don't say it myself)
We do say "Ey up" though

Weird Im a Mancunian and never heard it! Deffo whit week though. And blithering.

We’ve been researching and come across why people all each other mi duck. It’s got nothing to do with ducks, it means my duke.
That will explain why in some areas men say it to one another.

Would always describe a cast as a pot (NW). One of friends is from the SW. Used it in conversation with her before Christmas and she was equally baffled. I hadn't realised it wasn't universal!

YouWereGr8InLittleMenstruators

How does it fit into a narrative though? Can someone give me an example of that?
Something like:
The view from Scafell was breathtaking. Yet when Bob muttered, "Damn, I've left the flask and sandwiches in the boot...", Sue looked at him gone out?
I don't get when you'd say it.

See I would deffo look 'gone out' at this point - I was looking forward to sandwiches and tea once we had got to the peak! so I'd be WTF Bob you had one job! Maybe I should have been 'incandescent and shaking with rage'

I've never heard this phrase despite living in the North West for the majority of my life and latterly in the South West. Like all the best regional phrases, it makes no sense at all but those who recognise it know instantly what it means

@titchy

Weird Im a Mancunian and never heard it! Deffo whit week though. And blithering.

Me too.

Yorkshire.
Looked at her like she'd gone bonkers.

@Lunificent

When my friend says it, she means they looked at them weirded out (astounded judgementally). She also calls the Summer half term holiday ‘Springbank”. Is that an East Midlands thing?

Spring bank holiday is universal isn't it??? Def in yorkshire

@SunshineOnKeith - she doesn’t say Spring Bank Holiday. She says “Springbank” all one word as if it’s the way everyone says it.

Lincolnshire definitely and I can only hear it in a strong Lincolnshire accent now. While being in a Mars and having hot aches..