I’m from across the pond. My mum was born in Nottingham and came here when she was 19. She brought her sayings with her and passed them along. I remember many of her sayings, but my favorites were:
He’s like a wooden man made of smoke.
She looks like she’s been pulled through a hedge backwards.
Things our parents used to say
in Nottingham Lingo
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I’m from across the pond. My mum was born in Nottingham and came here when she was 19. She brought her sayings with her and passed them along. I remember many of her sayings, but my favorites were:
He’s like a wooden man made of smoke.
She looks like she’s been pulled through a hedge backwards.