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AIBU to ask for your local sayings?

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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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Hearthside · 19/10/2019 15:34

Are

Jackreacherswife · 19/10/2019 15:40

@ClientListQueen yep I most certainly am dad from penwortham mum from Burnley. I lived in longridge for 30 years now preston

Clawdy · 19/10/2019 15:41

He's a right mard little sod - meaning he's a spoilt little boy!
Stop rawngin' about - meaning Stop wriggling restlessly.
It's as broad as it's long - meaning either choice will do.

ClientListQueen · 19/10/2019 15:54

@Jackreacherswife Preston here too

Cheesey21 · 19/10/2019 15:57

@Dontsayyouloveme 🙋🏻‍♀️ I use this phrase almost daily!

bumasbigasthetv · 19/10/2019 15:59

I quite often say "live in hope, die in caergwrle" . Also, "you're not made of sugar" used if someone doesn't want to go out in the rain. "she's got a right gob on her" is someone is mouthy. "alright shil" as a greeting

Bellringer · 19/10/2019 16:28

The Wrekin is a big hill near Telford, shropshire

Hecateh · 19/10/2019 17:48

Don't try an' teach yer granny/mother to suck eggs

Who's she? the cat's mother

Shut yer cake 'ole

Hearthside · 19/10/2019 18:08

Bellringer it is was according to old folk law dropped by a giant who had a beef with Shrewsbury and was going to drop it in the river severn to flood Shrewsbury and kill everyone and a cobbler talked him out it.He dropped the rubble and hence the Wrekin .Bit Shropshire folk law .
Land mark for all us Salopians when you see he wrekin you know you are nearly home .
And all round the Wrekin you either took a long way round or you take ages to explain something Grin.

cheesenpickles · 19/10/2019 18:23

Weeee, she's being a right din and threw a major squinny daan taan.

Total sort!

Top shant.

catswhiskers15 · 19/10/2019 18:30

You can,t take the knickers off a bare arse= meaning really broke.
Ossified= drunk.
Arseways= to do something wrong.
The jacks=the toilet.
Acting the maggot=messing about.
Put the heart crossways in me= gave me a fright.

Elefant1 · 19/10/2019 20:01

How bist ole butt? And finishing a statement with "mind".

tangled2 · 19/10/2019 20:24

Stop raming on (stop whinging)

Who pissed on your chips?

EveshamMum · 19/10/2019 20:32

@Elefant1 Ow Bist!

whatsthecraic91 · 19/10/2019 20:37

The price of thon is a terra

Something that is rather pricy.

Example:
Husband: Just you get yourself a lovely wee dress for the wedding.
Wife: What do you think of this one?
Husband: You’re looking fierce well in it. Wait… WHAT. Three hundred pound? The price of thon is a terra.

whatsthecraic91 · 19/10/2019 20:39

@johnlennonsglasses

You just reminded me of one of my favourite insults

Aye - your mas your da 🤣🤣

5amisnotmorning · 19/10/2019 21:07

Nowty - grumpy
Born in a barn - shut the door
See a man about a dog - go out
Shanks pony - walk
Mithering - going on
Stop oining - annoying
Skriking - crying
Got a cob on - a face on
Put wood int hole - shut the door
In a right mard - in a mood
Do the pots - wash up
Ta - thanks
Also whats to do - what is wrong
Pop - fizzy drinks

Shiloh221 · 19/10/2019 21:16

Il be there now in a minute ! 🤣
It's over Yer (here)

Come have a cwtch 😬 welsh

Shiloh221 · 19/10/2019 21:18

I'm so tired I could "sleep on a chickens lip" 😂😂😂

Tunnocks34 · 19/10/2019 21:42

‘It’s buzzin that’ - it’s very good

‘R kid’ - my brother/sister (technically little brother or sister but my little brother calls it me

‘Make us a brew’ make me a cup of tea

‘That’s angin that’s’ - that is extremely disgusting

StripyHorse · 19/10/2019 23:10

The first 2 that spring to mind (and have both been mentionned) are very specific to my location, 'All round the Wrekin' and 'Live in Hope, die in Caegwrle'. I don't know hpw many people use 'to be at Loggerheads' to mean having a disagreement but I that is supposed to have a local origin too. I love the way that the way we use language changes according to where we are from. This quiz was really interesting... www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html and showed I am familiar with phrases covering a wider area than I would have anticipated (but still the areas closest to me).

StripyHorse · 19/10/2019 23:14

*Caergwrle. Sorry bit of a typo filled post. Fat fingers Blush

Mikeymoo12 · 19/10/2019 23:16

Now then rather than hi. Stop mithering me as stop bothering me and mardy as in you're right mardy today meaning grumpy

ShirazSavedMySanity · 19/10/2019 23:25

@Casschops we say cruckled - are you a town north of Manchester?

Madein1995 · 19/10/2019 23:28

Tidy - good, decent, properly
Fit - as in fit for a fight, can hold their own, take no shit
Do it now in a minute
Duw - God (usually said in annoyance)
Mun - used as emphasis eg 'don't be silly mun' 'move mun' 'of course not mun'
Haven't got any x, have you - basically have you got x
Anging - horrible
Ych a fi - yuck
Dwt - small, short
Bard - ill
Stop thriving on it - stop going on about it
Here, ear, year all pronounced the same - yee
Thanks drive - not so much a saying, but necessary to always thank the bus driver. I do this in England and the bus drivers are lovely to me
Lush - great (obviously)
Cwtch - cuddle. Cwtching is cuddling. Can also mean a little room. Eg I try and cwtch my dog, but she sleeps in the cwtch
Chopsy - gobby
Beyond - 'extra'. Usually used in exasperation or disapproval. Eg 'you're beyond, you are'
Dirty moch - used in affection, similar to mucky pup
Where to you from / where to / where you going to - make perfect sense but English colleagues don't get it
Droppi g t's at end of words - so 'dun ew' for don't you
Saying ew for you
Merging words - so neath port Talbot is pronounced 'neath p' Talbot '
En - means then, as in come on en

I'm from Wales if you can't tell 🙈 I confuse my colleagues daily