crankypig 457 Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 You'd better goo ta sleep afore ten o clock osses come rahnd. What the bloody hell was all that about? Roger I was terrified in case the osses got me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 Gerrup the applesanpears. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 Where are you going our Dad, " to see a man about a dog" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 I was terrified in case the osses got me. Could have dated back to the days of the night soil man coming round to empty outside toilets of terraced houses in days before main drains? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 If someone was showing fear or anxiety, mam would say they had nerves like chewed string. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 If one of us kids was in a Mood about some thing that Mam thought was trivial. She would come right up close to our face and say Ahh Didums. I have no idea what it means. But it would send us scuttling off up stairs for a Sulk in our bedroom! Especially Me!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 What's that smell? "Your nose is too near your arse" was often the reply from my Dad! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 If you mentioned a name to mam, and she didn't know who you were talking about, she'd say, who's he when he's at 'om? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted July 15, 2014 Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 Didn't parents ask the most stupid questions, "do you want a good hiding", oh yes please Mam. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted July 15, 2014 Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 Another one of mam's sayings, about cooking - 'When it's brown it's done, when it's black it's boggered'. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 If someone was easily taken advantage of, he was 'such a Joe Soap'. I wonder who Joe Soap was? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJBrenton 738 Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 My mam also used the word Rammel, for anything junky. We'd also put the sneck down at night on the front door lock. My husband who came from the Carlton rd area, his mum never heard of sneck before. My parents came from Basford, maybe it was a word used there. We used to refer to it as the "snip". It was only a few months ago when trying to find how to disable it (a friend's mum with dementia was left in an unsecured house by the carer when they left) that I discovered it actually is properly called a 'snib'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 #1421. That reminded me Mum would glare and say "be towd lad, be towd." You knew for sure you would get a belt if you said one more word Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 My grandma's expression for that was "Now be said!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 If you weren't very happy about something, and said 'it's not fair!' Mam would say, and it's not Wakes, either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 heard a new one on me from older biker mate at mfn last week when it was a bit cloudy he looked up at the sky and dont worry theres enough blue up there to make a shirt with aparently meand its not going to rain. another one of his sayings when thers a light shower its only lambing rain Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 An old aunt of mine said similar thing "If there's enough blue sky to make a sailor suit" funnily enough she was usually right Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Mam used to say "Youv'e done utchins" as a remark when going from point a to b very quickly. Who was Utchins or was it Hutchins? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 If you weren't very happy about something, and said 'it's not fair!' Mam would say, and it's not Wakes, either. Now that's different to what my dad used to say; 'It's not fair!' 'Well, it's not raining.' And now I'm able to annoy my own son in similar fashion. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 If someone was easily taken advantage of, he was 'such a Joe Soap'. I wonder who Joe Soap was? Rhyming slang for dope 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fernilee567 33 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 My dad used to tell us that when he was so hungry He could eat a horse between 2 mattress's Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Rhyming slang for dope But who was Kilroy? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 But who was Kilroy? He's not been here, has he? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DaveN 1,118 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Most reference books quote “Kilroy” as being a shipyard inspector in the U.SA. and after he’d inspected material he used to write “Kilroy Was Here”. The phrase came over to the U.K. during the Second World War when the U.S.A forces came here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 As one door opens another shuts - And vice versa! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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