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AIBU to ask for your local sayings?

246 replies

Minorityreports · 18/10/2019 19:25

I just looked down at my almost empty bottle of wine and thinking of the long night ahead said aloud (I live alone - not sure whether that makes it better or worse)... 'WELL THAT'S NOT GOING TO LAST ME PISSING TIME'.
I had it said before I realised it haha.

Love to hear your other little colloquialisms/madness/things yer Ma says that you still say

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iolaus · 18/10/2019 20:12

@dexterslockedintheshedagain - be there now in a minute

Problem is with phrases that you hear all the time it's only when an 'outsider' points out its weird that you notice

Back in old internet chatroom days I asked someone 'where you to now?' - and immediately got asked if I was Welsh

The other one is whenever I answer the phone in work about 90% of the callers start with 'what it is see.....'

pinksoda35 · 18/10/2019 20:13

So tired I could sleep on a clothe's line
Your head will never save your legs and Never go empty handed- for the same thing!!

ShinyMe · 18/10/2019 20:14

Oh yeah, I forgot about 'while' as a time thing. I'm not from Derbyshire, but have lived here 20 years. That's one I rarely say, and it always takes me by surprise a bit.

Teenagemaw · 18/10/2019 20:14

Awrite ya cunt - said to your friends 🤪

ISeeDeadDandelions · 18/10/2019 20:14

@weebarra Cumbria by any chance??

The local one that grates on me is deeks that marra

CactusAndCacti · 18/10/2019 20:15

Mash the tea and do pots.

I gambol, I really struggle to translate this for the children. A Roly poly in my world is something different to theirs.

funkylittleboatrace · 18/10/2019 20:16

She do do she

Maddie2019 · 18/10/2019 20:16

Teasy (feeling tired/irritable)
“I’m feeling tired and teasy” - Cornish saying!

JaceLancs · 18/10/2019 20:16

Thrilled to little doll rags

makingmiracles · 18/10/2019 20:16

How be on?

JaceLancs · 18/10/2019 20:16

Fur coat no knickers

JaceLancs · 18/10/2019 20:17

All net curtains and nothing in the larder

ethelfleda · 18/10/2019 20:17

I actually don’t know but I’m in the Midlands so I reckon I probably say loads of weird stuff. But I’m so used to it I don’t think it’s weird!

I love some of the phrases I hear when I go to Ireland.
‘He’ or ‘that bloke’ becomes ‘your man’
‘Deadly’
‘It’s in the press’
‘Bedside locker’

Etc etc

JaceLancs · 18/10/2019 20:19

I wouldn’t be interested even if his balls were studded with diamonds

MissConductUS · 18/10/2019 20:19

Fur coat no knickers

I thought this was fab when I first heard it on MN as someone's handle. There's a similar saying in Texas, "All hat no cattle" (cowboy hat).

JaceLancs · 18/10/2019 20:21

The word ginnel is quite local I think - meaning a narrow alleyway between houses

Tildero · 18/10/2019 20:22

Put wood inth hole

JaceLancs · 18/10/2019 20:24

Hard bitten blonde - no idea of origin but always reminds me of photos of a young Myra Hindley

Maltybiscuit · 18/10/2019 20:25

cost kick a bo agen a wo

Ginger1982 · 18/10/2019 20:27

He looks pure glaikit.

Ali1cedowntherabbithole · 18/10/2019 20:28

Once round and twice round windmill field. My Dad's description of fat people.

As pleasant as snow in harvest. My gr granddad.

Teachermaths · 18/10/2019 20:29

Round the Wrekin

Babybel90 · 18/10/2019 20:30

I’m not as green as I’m cabbage looking

Mumthedogsbeensick · 18/10/2019 20:31

I'm mafting (hot)
I'm nithered (cold)
Giz a croggy ( give me a lift on your bike)

Paintedmaypole · 18/10/2019 20:31

Teenagemaw Caernarfon? Mine- Soft as a boiled turnip. Bone idle lazy. Mard. 'Ey up! It's being s' cheerful keeps mi goin'. Left standing like piffy. Stop yarlin' or I'll give yer summat t' cry for in a minute. Ah'm boun for t' (I am going to, bound for to)