Do you bark your shin? Had a potato in your sock?Strange family sayings

[julia5]

My DP thinks my family a bit strange for our sayings. What things do you say that are incomprehensible to others?
Btw barking your shin is when you catch the bony part on the front of your lower leg; a potato occurs when your toe pokes through your sock!
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If we were complaining about having nowhere to sit when we were younger, my dad used to say

'Well put your thumb up yer bum and sit on yer elbow'

Tokentotty - my Mum says "You'd laugh to see a pudding crawl" and I have never heard anyone else use that expression ever! And Botbot too!

Where are you from?

Yes to potatoes in socks, no to barking shin.

We say "Don't stand there like Phil Garlic."

If you're complaining about something being too small (e.g portion size at lunch time or something) then DH's family (mostly FIL) says

"you wouldn't like it up your nose for a bogey"

and a dove is called a smooth pigeon

Never heard of barking shins but def have potatoes in my socks

Tatat - ewww for your FIL. A smooth pigeon i like a lot. Might steal it

'She couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel' i.e. that lady is so bow legged, a pig could get through them in a narrow alleyway.

'Thar's nesh' - I will award one whole English pound to anyone who knows what that one means.

I love "you wouldn't like it up your nose for a bogey". That's great.

my family don't have phrases, just competetive sports. We have "the 2 second rule" under which if you vacate a seat on the settee for 2 seconds or more it is available to anyone. That comes from living in a family with more people than decent sposts on the settee I spose.

Gingerbear my dear dad (sadly now departed) would use nesh to describe something a bit bit suspect or phoney. Am I close ? x

gb - is it a corruption of Nietzsche?

of course there's also "he's a rum'un". that's more dh's family though: it's a norfolk-ism.

Nope, nowhere near.
Senorapostrophe, a little too highbrow my dear; think dialect.

. nobody ever knows when I'm joking.

ok, how about totty? it sounds like it could mean that.

I knew you were joking - I could see that tongue stuck firmly in your cheek.

Nope, not totty. Tis a common phrase in Yorkshire.

ok I give up.

and I was after that pound too.

Well darn it, Gingerbear, endured 9 years in the People's Republic of Yorkshire and I don't know it...

Nesh = cold or maybe timid?
Does anyone else 'use witches watter' for piss-weak tea?

'Go around Millhouses to get to Attercliffe'

Said in a broad Sheffield accent.

Meaning using a reallllly long explanation when a few words will do.

'Thar's nesh' is the sort of thing my mum says if I put on a jumper but the sun is shining!

"You'll have a rat's egg there" for when you've bumped your head

"What's for dinner?" "Two kicks at the cupboard door"

"Well, go to't foot of our stairs!" translates to "Wow, fuck me!!"

"Give over or I'll give you something to cry for"

"She's beef to the heels like a Mullingar heifer" roughly translates to "What a very handsome woman"

"You look like a sack of shit tied in the middle"

My friend used to say I was nesh when I felt cold - he was from Shropshire.

My mum would say "Standing there like Patience on a monument" & my gran said "I don't cook my cabbages twice" if she was asked to repeat anything.

Our whole family used to call insects wigars and I was 18 before I realised that nobody else did....

"Sitting here like a bump on a log"

"I'll soon stop your gallop"

GB "thar's nesh" means you can't stand that cold yorkshire wind and have to go and put on a jumper.

Me in other words, by, it wor cold when I lived in Whitby

Can't believe everyone doesn't know that. They say it here in Derbys too.

MrsSchadenfreude, have you ANY idea where/why your Mum says that too ? Neither of my parents are still alive. My Dad was born in Forest Gate, East London. Botbot said her Dad was from Hertfordshire. Like I said before, I wondered if it was from an old radio programme perhaps ?

I was a bit bemused when dh first told me @Ive got a spelk'.

It's a North Eastern word for a splinter. I like it, so I say it too - with my silly posh southern accent!

Oh... and if we're out for a walk and come across a muddy wet bit, it's 'claggy'.