Michael Booth 7,364 Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Children will say to their parents, "Is this really Bubblewrap?" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andyblackpool 9 Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 It's t'kewd t'snow Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Sorry if this has been mentioned previously. I expect I was up to no good at the time, when these two words were aimed at me; I think it went something like................"I don't want any more of this Tom Foolery or Malarkey!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 The phrase Tomfoolery is from the 1650s. A buffoon was first called a 'Tom fool' because Tom was a nickname for a 'common man.' Fool once meant mad/insane, but by the 17th century, it was a reference to a jester/ a clown. The name Tom became influenced by 'Tom the cat' in the 1809 popular children's book 'The Life and Adventures of a Cat'. Tom the cat, quite a silly and a promiscuous night crawler, led to tomfoolery, a word for crazy behavior. "don't give me that malarkey"meaningless talk; nonsense. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 As for "malarkey" , no one is sure where that word came from , though first written in the USA in the 1920s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 If someone was not shy mam would say, he's not backwards at coming forwards. Also if someone was a bit 'slow' they were called 'backwards'. Funny saying really. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 yo enough to mek a Parson swear Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 I was often told to stop shilly shallying Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 My ex Mother-in-law used to say "I'll bat yer tab" when I was being leary to her. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dat47 92 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 my husbands grandma used to say "God don't pay debts with money " another one of hers was Therel be a day of reckoning . Don't get the jist of either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 One of mam's sayings (same mam as katyjay) was if a knife wasn't sharp she'd say ' I dare ride bare-arsed to London on that'. I continue this family saying. The saying describing someone as 'Like a man made of smoke' should be 'Like a man made of smoke and stuffed with straw' 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blacks Head Boy 7 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Are yer mashin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Chulla, I'm always coming out with mam's sayings, sometimes it's one I haven't heard in years. You never forget them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Anybody mentioned 'Muggins' yet?As in "You're a daft muggins." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,121 Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 I believe my Mum still says that! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 I still use one used in our family and it's indeniably true. 'Wi short o' nowt wi've got'. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,592 Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 I'll tan yer hide Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 "If you can't be in by 10.30, then don't bother coming home". That did it, I stayed out whenever I pleased. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Basfordred, our 'sneck' went down as mam and dad went to bed, if you weren't in by then, tough luck. I remember throwing stones up to my brother's (Chulla) bedroom window once to be let in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 In my late teens, I got home " tiddly" about 2.30 am one Sunday morning and realised I'd forgotten to take my front door key with me. As this had become a regular thing and mum & dad were fed up with being disturbed, I decided to get the wheel barrow from the bottom of the garden, stand in it to give me some height to stand on the window ledge of the conservatory, then I could get on to its roof and crawl up it to reach my open bedroom window. Things didn't go quite to plan as the roof was damp from drizzle and I slid down it, fell into the wheel barrow and rolled down the rockery. By this time my parents were awake and fuming. Dad muttered that I was bloody lucky that I had not fell through the Perspex roof of the conservatory and crashed down onto mothers collection of cactii plants. Another weekend of awkward silence. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Another saying, popular when I was a lad - You're daft, me duck, you follow balloons. And another, a sarcastic answer to the question 'Where are you going?' - Up Meg's arse to see how far it is. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dat47 92 Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 When asked what was for dinner mum would say Walk round the table 3 times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 Reading the tree bumblebee thread, and folks getting bitten by mozzies etc, reminded me of one of mam's sayings. If someone got bitten by an insect, she'd say, they only go after bad meat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted May 19, 2014 Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 One of my Grans favourites, theres nowt so queer as folk. can you still say the q word? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dat47 92 Posted May 19, 2014 Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 where theres muck theres money Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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