To ask if you ever....

[Whosthebestbabainalltheworld]

.....put the messages in the press?

Which every Irish person knows means putting away your grocery shopping.

Anyone volunteer the phrases that only local yokels would understand?

Oh my, I've not heard Charlies dead for years either! I'd completely forgotten about it.

Were you born in a field? (you've left the door open), closely followed by

Put wood int'oil (close the door)

Twice wi scraps please (in a fish and chip shop, two fish, two portions of chips and bits of floaty batter out of the fryer too)

All Leeds, West Yorkshire, though not sure how far these phrases extend.

I've heard kids at the school I teach tell each other they have bats in the Batcave.
Meaning they've got a bogey up their nose!

"Once every Preston Guild", ie not very often. Preston Guild festival happens every 20 years, in Lancashire.

Oh and " you make a better door than a window" ie you're blocking the light.

Kitty-corner to...

means diagonally across from in Canada

kiasu

Two jumps at the cupboard door and a bite of the knob (in reply to asking what's for tea)

He's skenning (that gentleman has had rather a lot of alcoholic refreshment)

There's a bat in yer cave - I can see a bogey in one of your nostrils

Standing round like one of Lewis's - not helping/ idling about

If I don't see you through the week, I'll see you through the window - catch up with you soon

Big head no bread in the house - talks the talk but can't back it up

Scousers la!

Is the post office open today - Flies undone

Be reight - everything will be alright
It's feeling a bit back-end-ish - winter is coming
Fair t'middlin' - I can't complain, thank you
ower yonder - over there

North Yorkshire

Up near Newcastle we'd say:

"You're flying low without a licence" - zip undone,

"You weren't made at Pilkingtons" = you're not made of glass - you're in the way of the TV and I can't see through you to see it,

"You weren't born in a barn" - you've left the door open, close it!

"Well I'll gan tae the foot o' my stairs!" - an expression of surprise/disbelief,

"Council pop" - water. (In a Geordie accent it is pronounced as 'oo' rather than 'ou'.

"Ahm nut standin at the far end o' the garden" - you're too noisy, if I was at the end of the garden I would be able to hear you.

We always had "were you born in a barn?" for leaving a door open.

All fur coat and no knickers - a personal favourite

Air pie and a walkround - in reply to what's for dinner

Is the vicar coming to tea?
If you didn't fill the cup of tea right to the top (something to do with leaving a white collar?)

“Going all round the Wrekin” taking too long to do something.
“To see a man about a dog” what adults said if kids asked where they were going.

JuneWhitfieldshandbag that's a brilliant expression! Air pie indeed!

My nan always said 'shite with sugar on' in response to 'what's fer tea?'

In Cornwall

'Andsome - used to describe everything nice, including as a greeting
Pro'er job - really good
Where's that to? - Where is X?
Righ' on - OK, see you later

My dad's reply to 'what are you making?' was always 'a wigwam for ducks to shite in'

And my Granda's favourite expression of disbelief was 'Nivver in the creation of crawshite (crow shit)

If you can't sing, then 'you couldn't shout coal down our passage'

It's a bit black over Bill's mother's.

'That tea was bostin' - That evening meal that you have just cooked for me was delicious

'Gerrit down yer wazzin' - Eat up!
(Black Country)

'Shit end of the lollipop stick' - you always end up with the bad instead of the good.

Going round the reakin/ wreakin?? - going the long way
Clattered- drunk

Half way up the Wrekin with an empty flask of tea
A fog descends and takes away my visibility
Yet in this Helen Keller state I'd still quite like to know
Why is Rod Hull alive*, and getting paid as well?

*c1984