Things our parents used to say


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Hi Ian, nice to see you're back,

Moo cows = Meadow ladies

Just realised Mr Steak's returned............................or may I call you Beef?............. :)

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If anywhere, especially the house, was untidy, my Mum would say. it: 'Looked like Jackie Pownall's' (I believe Pownalls scrap yard was down by the old Vic baths?) Another variation was .'Looks like

My old mum, now passed, grew up in old St Anne's and knew hard times from being little until she met and married dad, one of her regular sayings was "If you can't afford it wi real money, you can

Tomlinson, In answer to your question #1387, I used to have some really good Tide Marks on my neck and running up my arms. The back of our house on Hardy's Drive, Gedling was a shared yard, I can'

I had a Yorkshire dad and a Nottingham Mam. They used to say "Ganzi" for jumper. I wonder was that Sheffield or was it Nottingham?

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If my mother heard someone being loud and obnoxious, she'd say 'she's got a voice like a foghorn', alternately it could be 'she could be the relief foghorn on the Queen Mary'

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If you were crying about something small - you were "mardy". If it was slightly more egregious, you were a "mard-arse"!

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I think it was derived from 'Must not' but it's one that SWOBO (She Who Ought to Be Obeyed) uses & she originates from darn sarf!!

PS- Her mosthighness never reads my posts.....................hopefully

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