“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?

I grew up in Devon and now live in Somerset and we used the phrase ‘looked at him/her gone out’ all the time from as far back as I can remember.

I’ve lived in one of the areas mentioned above several times and have never heard the expression! Glad to learn it though

Common in Nottinghamshire

I say this. In fact I said it today! Northamptonshire.

Common in Sheffield. I also say Springbank

Lincolnshire here but Dads from Yorkshire and I 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.

Nope. Heard right!

Looked at Er/Im Gone out... to look at someone as if they are a bloody idiot. South Derbyshire.

Thanks for those who explained what it means, I’m from Berkshire and didn’t have the foggiest!

@LawnFever

No, my Lincolnshire Dad would use it regularly.

Notts.(mid/south notts family)

East. Lancs and never heard this

@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.

Nah then gi-or will yer , Berra keep it t' yersen else them'll be tab'anging and knowing wot Weer onabahht.

@RaskolnikovsGarret

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’?

Yes. Like they'd gone out of their mind!

I suggested we walk there (20 miles to the pub) & she looked at me gone out.

My parents are from Oop north, a long way oop. I was brought up in the SE, but I suspect I picked it up from my friend from Leicester.

@Talkwhilstyouwalk

Never heard it but quite like it, might look for an opportunity to drop it into conversation....

Trust me, it's not difficult!? If you have a teenager, ask them to leve their phone off all weekend, then tell someone about the conversation.

Derbyshire and Staffordshire and Cheshire,, I have lived all over the place !!

@itrytomakemyway

A very common phrase in the North West

I was born and bred proper north west, and have never ever heard of this expression before!

I’ve heard it (NW). I assumed it meant that your intelligence had ‘gone out’ from behind your eyes. ‘Gawping’ used more frequently where I’m from though.

I am from Yorkshire and have never heard anyone say this phrase

Well I'm in one of the places me turned by PPs and I've never heard it before so it sounds a bit kind some people use it all over

I'm in west mids and never heard this. Is it east mids?

I'm from Manchester and have never heard this before. I'm middle aged. I'll either never hear it or notice it everywhere as we now live in Derbyshire. Will ask DP if he's ever heard it, he's from the East Midlands.

@havanesehope

Heard a lot in West Yorkshire.

Never heard it at all in 50 years in my part of West Yorkshire

@MatildaJayne , cheers my lover, that's took me back.

@EmmaH2022

I love finding out about regional phrases, I'm from the Midlands and also knew this one. One I found out wasn't universal was pack-up for packed lunch. Also is it mardy (for grumpy) that is regional to the Midlands?
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Yes I often confused people with Mardy - I'm from Nottinghamshire but on the Lincoln/ Yorkshire/ derby boarder - so get many slang words.

Southern so this one is completely new to me.
Pot and jag were new to me on mn (source if all wisdom :) in the last few years!)

Springbank another one completely new to me (and I'm a teacher!) I'd work out it meant bank holiday but would probably guess the one beginning of may that's a long weekend rather than one that's part of half term!