You daft apeth

[Kasterborous]

No, not you but I heard this phrase yesterday and haven't heard it for ages. We used to say it when anyone had done something daft, but in a lighthearted way.

Another old favourite is 'crosspatch' as in 'don't be a crosspatch' when someone is being -well - cross.

[DawnOfTheDee]

vladthedisorganised I just spat coffee over the keyboard. I MUST use 'standing like a fart in a trance'. Why is this not in common usage..?

[Yamyoid]

Also have a vague memory of being told 'you'll get a clout [sp?] around the ear'ole'! (Never did though)

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Reprint - I use 'like piffy on a rockbun' too, but I am afraid I have no idea whatsoever where the phrase comes from - I just love it. DawnoftheDee - I always assumed that a rockbun was similar to a rock cake.

My dad used to call us rapscallions, if dsis and I were being cheeky.

Dogonabeanbag - I think it is 'swings or roundabouts' too - as in 'What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts' - I think that is the whole saying.

[stubbornstains]

Oh yes, "I'll give you a thick ear!"

[DawnOfTheDee]

Round bready type things: barmcakes.

Special round bready type things: oven bottoms (or oven bums in our house)

Large round bready type things: stotties

[Yamyoid]

Ah yes, mrsD, guts fer garters was the one I was trying to remember

[BlackStiltonBoots]

rabbitlady my Grandma says 'skriking' for crying, not heard her say it for a while.

Teacakes here for bread rolls, or currant teacakes for the sweet kind. I felt really odd when I moved to Manchester and had to ask for a 'barm'.

[WhisperMen]

my nan used to say standing there like piffy on a rockbun too! no idea of the origins though.

another one was he's like a pig in a ginnel. meaning the man was bow legged.

[chebella]

Not as green as he's cabbage-looking is a favorite of mine to describe someone canny.

Great thread. My dad uses 'corporation pop' for tap water.

My (Irish) granny used to threaten us with 'there'll be whigs on the green' - I think it means some sort of legal/judicial intervention would be required... She also used to threaten us with the 'sally rod' - no idea but you can sense the undercurrent of violence ha!

[FunnysInLaJardin]

I love daft apeth. My mum also says 'all round the reeking' when it has taken her sometime to get somewhere. I think the 'reeking' is in Shropshire? Most likely not spelled like that either. And if something was dirty my dad would say 'black as Newgates knocker'

[DawnOfTheDee]

'Has someone died then?' - said if you're trousers were too short (i.e. at half mast.

[Yamyoid]

My northern family still say barmcakes dawn
I used to have a chip barm nearly every day when at secondary school.

[Mmmnotsure]

I use many of the above my poor dc

Also 'ye gods and little fishes', and looking 'like the witch of Endor' when my hair is a right mess.

[DawnOfTheDee]

I still do too Yamyoid - especially as I live in Yorkshire now (I was born and raised in Lancashire). I refuse to say 'bread cake'. It's just wrong...

[Yamyoid]

'Creating' meaning baby making a fuss. Still said by my mum.

[stardusty5]

I love the word 'vexed'! My nana also used to call me a fly flamer as well as a daft dapeth.

A woman i work with also likes to exclaim 'shine a light!' Instead of bloody hell or similar.

We also still call the outsode bin the Ash Bin. Sure there are more

[Yamyoid]

Bread cake! Not heard that before

[FunnysInLaJardin]

oh and my dad would call us 'cloth ears' if we didn't hear what he had said

[Snowflakepie]

I called DD a ratbag the other day. DH was for some reason. I could have used something worse IMO! We also have daps which no one else here understands.

DHs lovely grandad had many sayings, the most random was 'off we go and the colour's blue'. No idea. MIL is the master of the double entendre and has gone on record for 'going for a blow on the beach'.

I also thought of an apeth as being a large monkey. Still doesn't spoil it though!

[ScooseIsLoose]

My nan used to call us tinkers if we were naughty I.e "you little tinker" or say we were bold,
My mum used to call me jelly head
My aunt had a friend who used to call everyone scone head (wtf?)

[BoyGirlBoy3]

"Stop that horse playing", said by my dad.

I say "fair dos", if i want to make people laugh!

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

WhisperMen - I thought it was 'He couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel' - meaning he was so bowlegged that the pig would run straight through his legs.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

FunnysInLaJardin - I think 'all around the reekin' is actually 'all around the Wrekin' - which is a hill in the middle of Shropshire.

[HaroldLloyd]

Had a face like a cat licking piss off a nettle - for catsbum face

Haven't heard that in a while.