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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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Paintedmaypole · 18/10/2019 21:21

Oh yes! and if he's seen his bottom leave him to stew in his own juice! I didn't realise how much good advice I was getting from my mother 😀

Gingaaarghpussy · 18/10/2019 21:22

Sowpig is a woodlouse in norfolk

CurlsandCurves · 18/10/2019 21:25

Gone out. Means crazy.

‘I said to him that I thought Boris Johnson was doing a good job as PM, he looked at me gone out!’

Dontsayyouloveme · 18/10/2019 21:25

Paintedmaypole - ha yes, ‘stew in your own juice’!! 😂

BUBBLEBATHBISQUE · 18/10/2019 21:26

One that has the same sentiment as shutting the gate after the horse has bolted: "Paid â chodi'r pais ar ôl piso" - literally 'no use lifting your petticoats after you've pissed'. Love hearing it from twee old ladies!

HotSince82 · 18/10/2019 21:27

See your arse.
He was paralytic.
Go mad.
Soft arse.
Feel knackered/shattered.
Crack on.

Springfern · 18/10/2019 21:27

DFLs (Down From London)

'August bank holiday and the beach is packed because of all the DFLs'

allthepeoplethatcomearound · 18/10/2019 21:33

One of my favourite sayings which is very widely used where I’m from is:
‘Paid a malu cachu!’ (Welsh) Translated literally to ‘don’t break shit’ as in ‘don’t bullshit!’

SachaStark · 18/10/2019 21:33

“Dreckly”

Cornish- adverb, as in, “I’ll do it dreckly.”

Means, “It’ll get done at some point in the distant future, but you’ll be buggered if it’s done any time soon.”

As in, “The Cornish maid asked him to hang the washing out. He replied that he’d do it dreckly.”

Skigal86 · 18/10/2019 21:33

@ShinyMe I was about to say “it’s a bit black over Bill’s mothers” my granny used to say that all the time, I always wondered who bill was! 😂

Mumthedogsbeensick · 18/10/2019 21:33

@PastTippingPoint Yes!

allthepeoplethatcomearound · 18/10/2019 21:34

@BUBBLEBATHBISQUE
My nain likes to come out with ‘ddim pwynt codi pais ar ol piso!’ Grin

ithinkmycatistryingtokillme · 18/10/2019 21:34

stop skryking will yer(crying in a whingy way)

Iceburglettuce · 18/10/2019 21:35

Pot kettle black
Piss up yer leg and play with the steam
You know what thought thought?
Matey
Bloke
Yer alright- for I don't think so

Sarcasm for anything and everything is key 😂

MrsMoastyToasty · 18/10/2019 21:38

Ow bis?
Gurt lush, innit?

Wheat2Harvest · 18/10/2019 21:40

When my mother visited New Zealand she was puzzled by the expression, "Is that right?" Someone would say something like, "I went to the concert last night" and someone else would say, "Is that right?"

I explained that it was just a Kiwi-ism but my mother was still of the view that if it wasn't right they wouldn't have said it!

Vilanelle · 18/10/2019 21:40

@Catapillarsruletheworld wales?

Be there now in a minute

Icopiedyourusername · 18/10/2019 21:41

Dontsayyouloveme I live in Wilmslow area now but grew up in near Delamere and parents are both from Chester so not a bad guess Grin

InsertFunnyUsername · 18/10/2019 21:42

Dont piss on me and tell me it's raining.

BlackeyedGruesome · 18/10/2019 21:43

Mardy
Bit black over Bill's mother's
All round the houses
Bonce
Put wood int 'ole (family a bit further north)
Giz us a croggy
Come a cropper
Plimsols
Cobs
Now then duck
Ay up mi duck.
Yawrite?
Twitchel
Bunking off
Softly, softly catchy monkey
Siling down
Daft 'a'p'orth
Daft as a brush and twice as natural.
As old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

BlackeyedGruesome · 18/10/2019 21:44

Stop mithering

honeylulu · 18/10/2019 21:45

"Stop bellyaching" (moaning)

MrsDaveGrohl78 · 18/10/2019 21:46

Aww man that's proper shanful

Tekkin the jewkles down the parney for a pagga

The bairns are getting nowt!

Howlovely · 18/10/2019 21:46

@Dontsayyouloveme - we use Saw her arse in South Wales. Also, got her arse out, got her arse in her hand, got arsey, to mean moody/cross.

honeylulu · 18/10/2019 21:47

A quaint one from my paternal grandmother: "Wouldn't do the laundry" (was unable to consummate the marriage).