Has anyone else heard this saying….

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… or did my family just make it up?

When I was a child, if the sky was darkening due to incoming rain, my DM would say ‘It’s a bit dark over Will’s mother’s’. I grew up thinking this was a saying everyone used but if I’m honest I can’t remember anyone outside of our family saying it!
My DH thinks I’m crazy - or at least my family is. Please tell me someone else has heard this?!

Oh and after you’d hurt yourself - ‘don’t worry, it’ll be a pig’s foot in the morning’. Used to hate that one as a child I just wanted some sympathy. Now I find myself saying it to my own DD sometimes.

London and heard both but it was a dustcart. I think blue arse fly is pretty general, as in fart in a colander (not sure which hole to go through - dithering).

Never heard about Bills mother tho.

“Bit black over Bill’s Mam’s”. That’s the correct way to say it in Nottingham.

I've not heard the cabbage one, what does it mean? 😆

My other quite 'proper' nan would occasionally shock us with a colourful turn of phrase. The blunt knife one, but I know it as "you could ride to China on that and not cut your arse". And upon eating something tart e.g. unsweetened fruit and screwing her face up - "cor, that'll make you shit over nine fences". I have no idea where that comes from or if she made it up!

It was always as bent as a butcher's hook where I come from.

Loving all these.

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I was born in the Midlands but didn't hear 'its a bit dark over Will's house' until I moved to Sussex. This was meaning a dark cloud in the distance and about to rain.

'Going round the Wrekin' was a phrase for taking the long way round.

And did anyone have a parent who just popped to the 'outdoor?

I still use that phrase!

Ha, I've heard "it's black over wife's mother's" and thought it to mean the other side's family were grumpy as well as rain.

And "it's as bent as a nine bob note" for something dodgy.

"Penny short of a pound" for someone a bit daft.

"If you can see enough sky to make a pair of sailor's trousers" you can put the washing out.

Yes. Mum used to say Bill's mothers

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Never heard it before.

A more recent saying I've heard is "as camp as a field full of tents".

Also Mum used to say "what's the weather like with you Jean?"

This was definitely a rip off from the wireless/radio programme on a Sunday morning- 'Family Favourites'

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My mum used to say “murky buckets” to mean thank you. It doesn’t seem to be a common turn of phrase so not sure where it came from, though I assume it’s a bastardisation of merci beaucoup.

I love 'bent as a nine bob note' (which my Mum used to say) but I've updated it to nine pound note! 😅

Yes. I definitely remember my grandma saying this . She was from Kent

Thank you! I never heard that anywhere but from my mother!

Brilliant.

What does this mean, please!

See my previous post!

Oh @OldTinHat i was just talking about the outdoor last week! Remember it well.

I’m from the Black Country and I was telling DP about it (he’s a southerner but I love him anyway 😉) and he was just looking at me blankly.

I love this saying.

Some of my mum's (Cheshire)

He's as odd as dick's hatband
As thin as a latt
He's got a face like a farmers arse on a frosty morning

And great words such as flummoxed and lozzacking

Yorkshire born & raised and never heard the cloud one or the dustbin one.