Things our parents used to say


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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'

Hold your horses! = you needed to stop doing something

Home James, and don't spare the horses! = time for a quick getaway

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Having a bit of banter with Hubbs tonight and I got the winning line in. YES! With out even thinking I followed it up with " So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it". Ahh; Mi mammy used to say that when she got the finishing line in! She could run quite fast so we never tried to answer that one.

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Question : Where are you going Dad?

Answer : Back of Knocker Street where they put clogs on ducks !

Second question ; What the ............... was all that about ?

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"Don't stand there looking all sucky!" Sucky seems to mean looking a little vacant - or is there another interpretation?

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Damn My Fire...... That was another of dads favourites. Never did understand that one.

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Today I came out with the sentence :

"He was tazzin down the road"

Haven't used that word for "donkeys" years.

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Us kids wuz tazzin on our bikes escaping the rozzers !

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Just pondering the word, 'ditch' in the word association thingy and it popped into my head a word Mam would use for something really dirty.

She`d say it was 'ditched'. Haven`t thought of that for years.

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