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.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

LOftyjen - I don't know where I got this particular one from, but I talk about the colour 'skybluepink with a finny haddock border'!

[Notonaschoolnight]

I nearly died with the recent corrie story line "play the white man" my mum always said it, the context being "behave" for her, I didn't click as a child it was racist

[Kikithecat]

Oh yes Tig, and to complete the rhyme:

Don't care was made to care
Don't care was hung
Don't care was put in the pot
Until he was done!

Not to mention:

Little children, do not let your angry passions rise
Just double-up your little fists and black each others' eyes.

said by my mum and I always thought it was daft us telling us to fight!

[TigOldBitties]

knapp My dad is always accusing people of rabbiting on or if he wants us to shut up will say "yeah, yeah, rabbit, rabbit". Doesn't surprise me its Chas & Dave. My grandparents love them and we're long time spurs fans.

[clary]

I've heard lots of these and love them!

An old colleague of mine says "she used to chew bread for our ducks" which you said when you had never heard of someone.

I think it was specific to his family but I rather like it.

I also say "get a wiggle on" which comes from my dad.

LOL @ bomsytit

[TigOldBitties]

I didn't know it was a full rhyme, I doubt my nan does either. I shall have to tell her.

We always used to ask how "don't care was made to care" and she would say "a bunch of fives"!

We also use:
A fly in the ointment.
A right pickle
Like a rat up a dirty drain

[Crownjewel]

Reading his thread has made me chuckle...

DM says, "standing around like piffy on a rock bun" (never understood where it came from).

Also, "mardy bum" (never heard anybody else use that one until the Arctic Monkeys).

"Dragged through a hedge backwards", for scruffy hair/clothes.

Does anybody else's family use, "agate" (instead of, "said", eg. "He was agate that he wished he'd stayed at the party"), or, "happen" (instead of, "perhaps")?

[clary]

LOL @ your bread roll chat with MIL Gemmateller!

Round my way (east mids) everyone calls them cobs. I once offered a visiting child a "bread roll" and she genuinely didn't know what I meant!

Look at you gone out is a good Derbyshire saying. A mate of mine said it one when working in London and they, well, looked at her gone out!

[hawkeye21]

I use a lot of these. Must be getting old

Also, since having the DCs, have taken to saying 'oh, for crying out loud,' and 'for Pete's sake,' when previously more earthy language would have been employed.

[LazyScare]

"Got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning" = get over the mood there's no reason for it.

I REALLY got up on the wrong side this morning.

[Longtallsally]

Mummypig the 'more tea Vicar?' phrase refers to the idea of covering up the fart/burp/embarrassing noise by quickly making conversation/providing a distraction. It stems back to the day when entertaining the vicar, in the drawing room, with the best china cups dontchaknow, required very best behaviour, and to make bodily noises was Not Good. If you burped/farted in front of family, presumably that was OK . . .

Loving some of these. I'm also a Midlands girl. We had 'blarting' for crying too, I think. And no-one has yet mentioned it being "black over Bill's mother's" - meaning that bad weather is approaching.

More recently, I had a friend who would describe someone as being 'as useful as an astray on a motorbike' and 'as organised as a box of frogs', both of which love.

[SouthernComforts]

'were you born in a barn? ' = shut the door
'put t' wood int' hole' = shut the door

Creating / skryking / blubbing = crying

He skens like a basket of whelks = He's cross eyed

All those ^

'how atty?' As a greeting.

What do you know, owt or nowt?

You make a better door than a window

Put a coat on you'll catch your death

[SouthernComforts]

Oh and "it's brass monkeys" when it's cold.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I've remembered another - 'he/she could talk the hind leg off a donkey!'

[Longtallsally]

Did anyone else, on asking for something like a drinks get the reply "Yes, and if you get me a bucket of sand, I'll sing you The Desert Song"? (Meaning you are asking for too much.)

The Desert Song was a musical starring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddie, with the famous song of the same title. I used to be able to sing it - Saturday afternoons always had a film on BBC2. There was another musical too, with the song by them too starting "When I'm calling youuuuuuuu-oooooo-uuuuuu-oooooo-uuuuuu-oooooooo-oooooo"



Bugger, now that one's stuck in my head!

[diddl]

"I also say "get a wiggle on" which comes from my dad."

I always thought it was "get a wriggle on".

[FiveExclamations]

"Oh my giddy aunt" was my childhood favorite.

[Jacksterbear]

diddl I thought it was "get a wriggle on" too. Are u sure it's "wiggle"?

[Tydna]

"We'll that puts the top hat on it!"
To be said after a series of disasters.

Other remarks made by my grandma:-

What a silly cuckoo!

Save your money, don't be a squander bug!

She's a right mither can!

All dressed up and nowhere to go.

Straighten your face or it will stick like that!

[Tydna]

Well not we'll

[DawnOfTheDee]

Another one who was told to 'get a wriggle on' by my dad.

My mum's version of this was to bark 'shape!' in a drill sargent type voice. She also used to yell this at, for examples, the England football team when watching it on telly or if her horse wasn't running fast enough in the National. It used to make me laugh and then she's look round going "What? They weren't shaping!"

[DawnOfTheDee]

Oh and got called 'face ache' if I was looking mardy....

[thegreylady]

My dgs hated the xxxx is no good etc so I chenged it to:
Xxxx is so good we wont chop him up for firewood
I'll tell you what we'll do instead
We'll make him into gingerbread.
Gingerbread is good to eat
First the hands and then the feet
We'll bite the toes off one by one until every bit is gone.
This was accompanied by pretend nibbling of fingers and toes :)

Re sayings...did anyone else say:"I wouldn't call the King my uncle (or me uncle where I lived)" if they were feeling content?

[KirjavaTheCorpse]

Creating mary hell.

[SouthernComforts]

Put your face straight! If we were sulking